School of Education
Faculty of Arts and Education
Prof. Terry Evans |
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| Position | Personal Chair | |
| terry.evans@deakin.edu.au | ||
| Area | School of Education | |
| Phone | +61 3 522 71164 | |
| Campus | Geelong | |
| Location | ic3.302 | |
| Role and profile |
Terry Evans (BEd (Hons) Sussex, UK; MEd, PhD Monash ) is the Associate Dean (Research) and Deputy of the Faculty of Education. His responsibilities include the management of staff and postgraduate research in the Faculty. Professor Evans is located in AF56 of the Arts and Education Building at the Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds. He has had a wide range of teaching experience in the school, College of Advanced Education and University sectors and he has been a visiting scholar interstate and overseas. He was the Deakin University foundation director of the joint Master of Distance Education program with the University of South Australia and continues to teach on that program. Terry Evans has conducted research in all educational settings from pre-schools through to universities. His recent research and scholarship is in the field of doctoral policy and practice. He has also research and published widely in the fields of open, flexible and distance educationÛincluding work on professional and vocational education and training, and new educational technologies. He is a member of several editorial boards and has consultancy experience in various fields. He is a member of the Council of Deans and Directors og Graduate Studies. He is the convenor of the six Research in Distance Education conferences held at Deakin University since 1989. He is the author of A Gender Agenda (Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1988), Understanding Learners in Open and Distance Education. (London, Kogan Page, 1994) and the co-editor of ten books including Opening Education: policies and practices from open and distance education (with D Nation, London, Routledge, 1996), Shifting Borders: globalisation, localisation and open and distance education (with L Rowan & Bartlett, Geelong, Deakin University Press, 1997) and Research in Distance Education 6 (with P Smith & E Stacey, Geelong, in press). |
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| Teaching responsibilities |
Supervisor of ten PhD candidates Facilitator of online doctoral seminars Unit co-adviser EEE715 Research Supervision |
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| Research interests |
Doctoral education practice and policy Distance education, flexible learning, online education Education and development |
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| Current research projects |
2008–10 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. Australian doctoral graduates’ publication, professional and community outcomes (with P Macauley) 2007–8 DEST Classifying Australian PhD Theses by Research Fields, Courses and Disciplines (RFCD) and Socio-Economic Objectives (SEO) (with M Pearson & P Macauley). 2006–8 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant Research capacity-building: the development of the Australian PhD programs in national and emerging global contexts. (with M Pearson & P Macauley). |
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| Service to the University, discipline or community |
Member of the editorial board of Studies in Research: Training, Evaluation and Impact 2005– Member of the editorial board of Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development 2004– Member of the UNESCO National Education Network (Australia) 2004– Member of the Editorial Board of the ¬Journal of Distance Learning 2004–¬ Member of the International Advisory Board Malaysian Journal of Distance Education 2000– Member of the Editorial Advisory Board Global E-journal of Open and Flexible Learning 2000– Member of the editorial advisory board of Re-Open: Research in Open and Distance Learning 1999–2003 Member of the editorial board of Staff and Educational Development International 1996 – Member of the editorial board of Open Learning, 1991 – Member of the editorial board of Media and Technology for Human Resource Development, 1991 – Member of the Editorial Board of Distance Education, 1989 – |
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| Awards | Open & Distance Learning Association of Australia Research Award, 1995, for excellence in a book prodcution | |
| Qualifications | BEd (Hons) Sussex, UK; MEd, PhD Monash | |
| Memberships |
Open & Distance Learning Association of Australia International Doctoral Education Research Network |
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| Conferences |
Evans, T D 2008 Reaching Docoral Heights: doctoral studies at a distance. Canadian Network for Innovation in Edication national conference, Banff, 28–30 April Pearson, M, Cumming, J, Evans, T D, Macauley, P, Ryland, K 2008 Exploring the extent and nature of the diversity of the doctoral population in Australia: a profile of the respondents to a 2005 national survey’ Quality in Postgraduate Research conference, Adelaide, 17–18 April Evans, T D 2007 Advancing Doctoral Education through web-based initiatives. International Association of Science and Technology for Development International Conference on Web-based Education, Chamonix, France, March 14–16th Keynote presentation at the EDU-COM 2006 Conference entitled ‘Engaging doctoral diversity’ Khon Kaen University, Nong Kai, Thailand, November 2006 |
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| Research link | View Deakin associated research data | |