Associate Professor
Jennifer Clifton
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Education
Biography
Associate Professor Jennifer Clifton is an experienced educator and researcher. She is an active member of the professional experience field and initial teacher education. She is the incoming president of the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) executive membership and the QLD representative for the Network of Academic Directors of Professional Experience (NADPE) group. Jen has established herself as an active researcher with expertise in partnerships and work-integrated learning (WIL) in higher education. She has been the sole or co-investigator on research and consultancy projects partnering with Departments of Education, government agencies and industry. She is a theme leader for Theme Leader (Educators, teachers and professionalism) of the Digital Learning for Change (DL4C) Research Group. Jen is well renowned for alternative models of professional experience based on school-university partnership, which focuses on shared responsibility and the employability of graduates.Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor of Teacher Education
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Education
Keywords
Initial Teacher Education, Professional Experience, Employment-based Pathways, Partnerships, Work-Integrated Learning
Research field
Other Education, Education policy, sociology and philosophy
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosphy (Central Queensland University)
Professional memberships and associations
Incoming President – Australian Teacher Educators’ Association (ATEA)
Theme Leader (Educators, teachers and professionalism) of the Digital Learning for Change (DL4C)
QLD Representative for Network of Academic Directors of Professional Experience (NADPE)
Research Group Member of the Teacher and Teaching Research Group (TTRG)
Teaching
I teach (or have previously taught) various subjects to postgraduate and undergraduate students, including professional experience, health education, and transition to the profession. My teaching has been acknowledged with several awards and commendations, including innovation in teaching (redesign of first year WIL), a university-level teaching award (early-career academic) and for innovative curriculum from the Australian Curriculum Studies Association.
Publications
Research outputs by year
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A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/jen.clifton
Supervision
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I am currently accepting research students for Honours, Masters and PhD study.
You can browse existing student topics offered by QUT or propose your own topic.
Current supervisions
- The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Filipino Initial Teacher Educators in Remote Teaching Environments
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Cate Challen - Regional, Rural and Remote Employment-based Intital Teacher Education Models
Professional Doctorate, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Terri Bourke - Teaching Definite Integrals in the Context of Solving Volumes of Solids of Revolutions
Professional Doctorate, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Timothy Lehmann, Emeritus Professor Lyn English - Does participation in face-to-face intensive mode teaching (IMT) units that maintain a collaborative teaching pedagogy, enable/prepare students for engagement in subsequent traditional mode (TMT) units
Professional Doctorate, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Lisa van Leent - Enhancing the capabilities and self-efficacy of Australian pre-service primary teachers with design thinking
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Kate Thompson - Resilience and Resistance: academic and student experiences in disrupting hetero-cis-normativity in social work and human services education in Australia
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Lisa van Leent
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.