Dr Tai Peseta
BEd (Hons 1) (Sydney) & PhD (Sydney)
Lecturer in Higher Education
email: tpeseta@unimelb.edu.au
ph: +61 3 8344 3501
Background
Tai works as a Lecturer in the Teaching and Learning and Unit, having joined the Faculty of Economics and Commerce in July 2008 after 10 years working in academic/educational development at the Institute for Teaching and Learning, The University of Sydney (USyd). She has extensive experience working with academic staff in developing their knowledge and skills in research supervision, tutor development, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She has taught and coordinated postgraduate subjects in university teaching and learning, critical reflection, the scholarship of teaching and learning and academic professionalism. In 2005 with a colleague, she received a Teaching Excellence Award from the Faculty of Education and Social Work (USyd) for her work in the Graduate Certificate in Education Studies (Higher Education) and in 2006, with colleagues in the Faculty of Economics and Business (USyd), received a Carrick Citation (now Australian Learning and Teaching Council – ALTC) for excellence in tutor development.
Work in the Faculty
In the Faculty, Tai coordinates and teaches on a number of programs to support academic staff to develop an evidence-based and scholarly approach to their teaching in order to enhance student learning.
She also supports faculty staff to develop applications for the range of teaching excellence awards (both in the faculty and university) and is available for discussion and consultation about undertaking research into an aspect of teaching and learning in particular subjects. Funding to support teaching and learning research is available through the Faculty’s Teaching Innovation Grant Scheme. Tai is also available to work with Departments on specific aspects of curriculum design, development and course review and evaluation. She also coordinates the TLU’s Teaching and Learning Seminar Series.
In 2009, she will contribute to two university-wide projects: (i) Improving Assessment and Feedback (TALDEC) and Quality of Teaching Surveys (TALQAC).
Research
In 2006, Tai was awarded her doctorate Learning and Becoming in Academic Development: an autoethnographic inquiry which received the NSW Institute for Education Research’s prize for Excellence in Research. Her research interests are broadly framed around the scholarship, identity and politics of the academic development project, doctoral education and supervision development, and the relations between disciplinarity and pedagogy in higher education. She also has research interests in reflexive methodologies and ideas about writing in the academy. She is currently working with Dr Peter Kandlbinder at the Institute for Media and Learning (IML) at the University of Technology Sydney on a project which investigates the key thinkers in higher education teaching and learning – and the conceptual basis of higher education teaching and learning as a field of study and practice more generally. She also continues to think on and write about academic and educational development, and the nature of academics’ professional development as teachers.
Tai co-founded the Challenging Academic Development (CAD) Collective in 2004 – an international research group of over 100 educational developers interested in theorising the scholarship and politics of academic development. Their theoretical essays are featured in a Special Issue of The International Journal for Academic Development (IJAD) – Issue 12(1). Read about the CAD Collective at http://cadc.wordpress.com/ or join the list-serve at http://mailman.ucc.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/itl-cad.
Tai is an Associate Editor of The International Journal for Academic Development. She also sits on the Editorial Board for the UK based journal Teaching in Higher Education. From 2009-2011, she sit on the Executive of the Higher Education Research and Development Society Australasia (HERDSA) and has a research affiliation with the International Doctoral Education Research Network (IDERN).
Areas for research supervision and collaboration:
- Theorising academic and educational development
- Research supervision development and doctoral education
- Scholarship of university teaching and learning
- Academic identity and professionalism
- Reflexive research methodologies: autoethnography, writing, fiction and narrative
Contact Tai at tpeseta@unimelb.edu.au or phone +61 3 8344 3501.
Publications
Book Chapters
Peseta, T. & Manathunga, C. (2008). The Anxiety of Making Academics Over: resistance and responsibility in the academic development project. In I. Morley & M. Crouch (Eds.), The Value of Knowledge: Critical Illumination Through Prisms (p. 79-94). Netherlands: Rodopi Press.
Brew, A. & Peseta, T. (2008). Supervision development and recognition in a reflexive space. In Boud, D. & Lee, A. (Eds). Changing Practices of Doctoral Education (pp. 126-139). NY & UK: Routledge.
Peseta, T., Brew, A. McShane, K. & Barrie, S. (2007). Encouraging the scholarship of learning and teaching in an institutional context. In Brew, A. & Sachs, J. (Eds,). Transforming a University: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Action Sydney (pp: 223-231). NSW: University of Sydney Press.
Peseta, T. (2001). Imagining a PhD writer's body grappling over pedagogy. In Bartlett, A. & Mercer, G. (Eds.) Postgraduate Research Supervision: Transforming (R)elations (pp.83-87).NY: Peter Lang.
Refereed Journal Articles
Kandlbinder, P., & Peseta, T. (2009). Key concepts in postgraduate certificates in higher education teaching and learning in Australasia and the United Kingdom. The International Journal for Academic Development, 14(1), 19-31.
Peseta, T. (2007). Troubling our desires for research and writing within the academic development project. The International Journal for Academic Development, 12(1), 15-23.
Brew, A. & Peseta, T. (2004). Changing postgraduate supervision practice: a program to encourage learning through reflection and feedback. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 41(1), 5-22.
Edited collection/s
Kandlbinder, P. & Peseta, T. (2001). In Supervisors’ Words: an insider's view of postgraduate supervision. Institute for Teaching and Learning. NSW: University of Sydney [available online at http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/supervision/casestudies/book.pdf]
Refereed conference papers
Wilson, K., Peseta, T., Sharma, M. & Millar, R. (2002). Evaluation of a research based teaching development in first year physics. Proceedings of the UniServe Science Conference on Scholarly Inquiry in Science Teaching and Learning, University of Sydney, NSW.
Kandlbinder, P. & Peseta, T. (2000). Online professional development for postgraduate supervisors. In A. Herrmann and M.M. Kulski (Eds), Flexible Futures in Tertiary Teaching. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Teaching Learning Forum, 2-4 February. Perth: Curtin University of Technology. http://lsn.curtin.edu.au/tlf/tlf2000/kandlbinder2.html.
Other published works
Peseta, T., Hicks, M., Holmes, T., Manathunga, C., Sutherland, K. & Wilcox, S. (2005). Research Note: The Challenging Academic Development (CAD) Collective. The International Journal for Academic Development, 10(1), 59-61.
Grant, B. with McShane, K., MacKenzie, H. Wilcox, S., Hicks, M., Manathunga, C., Kandlbinder, P. & Peseta, T. (2005). The Participants’ Tales: On being at the CAD Symposium. HERDSA News, 2 (3), 19-21.
Peseta, T. (1998). Making Groups Work: Rethinking practice. Benjamin, J., Bessant, J. & Watts, R. (Eds.) Change: Transformations in Education, 13(2), 33-35 [Book Review].
Commissioned reports/Discussion Papers
Peseta, T. (2007). New Developments in Research Education Programs. A Discussion Paper commissioned by David Boud for the UTS Graduate Research School.
Conference presentations
Peseta, T. (with the CAD Collective) (2008). The Challenging Academic Development Collective: International Writing Collective Theorizes a Field. Poster presented at the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 12-15.
Clifford, V., Kandlbinder, P., Peseta, T., Wilcox, S., & Wuetherick, B, (2008). A Lover’s Guide to University Teaching: Love in Academic Development (A CAD Collective Symposium) at the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 12-15.
Kandlbinder, P. & Peseta, T. (2008). Key Concepts in Graduate Certificates in higher education teaching and learning in Australasia and the UK. Paper presented at the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 12-15.
Holmes, T., Peseta, T. & Sutherland, K. (2008). Creativity Unbound? Rethinking “Constructive Alignment’ as Paradigm and Method. Paper presented at the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 12-15.
Peseta, T. (2007). Revisiting Curriculum Again: Learning and Becoming in Academic Development. Paper presented at the Higher Education Research and Development Society Australasia (HERDSA) Conference, Adelaide, July 8-11.
Peseta, T. & Jarkey, N. (2007). Producing the Scholarly Tutor: Engaging Arts tutors in conversation about the scholarship of teaching & learning. Paper presented at the Higher Education Research and Development Society Australasia (HERDSA) Conference, Adelaide, July 8-11.
Peseta, T. & Manathunga, C. (2007). The anxiety of making academics over: resistance and responsibility in the academic development project. Paper presented at The Value of Knowledge Conference, Sydney, Feb 12-14.
Peseta, T. (2006). Troubling the way we research and write about academic development practice: turning to notions of artfulness. Paper presented at the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) Conference, University of Sheffield, England, June 11-13.
Peseta, T., Barrie, S., Brew, A., McShane, K. & Applebee, A. (2006). When teachers become learners again: a Graduate Certificate program for supercomplexity. Paper presented at the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) Conference, University of Sheffield, England, June 11-13.
Manathunga, C., Peseta, T. & Juwah, C. (2006). Theorising resistance to/in educational development: towards a productive conceptual framework. Paper presented at the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) Conference, University of Sheffield, England, June 11-13.
Peseta, T. & Brew, A. (2006). From autobiography to case study: supervision learning and development through writing. Paper presented at the Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) Conference, Adelaide, 20-21 April.
Peseta, T. (2006). Learning for Supervision: a program for accrediting supervisors of research higher degrees. Paper presented as part of the Symposium: Implications for current practice of innovative conceptions of research higher degree education at the Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) Conference, Adelaide, 20-21 April.
Peseta, T. (2005). Supervision Development: From thick description to case study. Paper presented as part of the Symposium: Fiction and Supervision Pedagogies: Creative approaches to supervisors’ professional development. Higher Education Research and Development Society Australasia (HERDSA) Conference, The University of Sydney, July 3-6.
Peseta, T. (2005). On the production of useful research: integrating arts-based inquiry within the scholarship of academic development. Paper presented as part of the Symposium: Conceptual Transgressions: Furtive Explorations in the Scholarship of Academic Development. Higher Education Research and Development Society Australasia (HERDSA) Conference, The University of Sydney, July 3-6.
Peseta, T. (2004). Staging the Scene: reflections on academic development as an anthropological encounter. Paper presented as part of the symposium ‘Liminality, identity and hybridity: on the promise of new conceptual frameworks for re-theorising faculty/educational development’ at the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) Conference, University of Ottawa, Canada, 21-23 June.
Brew, A. & Peseta, T. (2004). Is research higher degree supervision teaching or is it research? What difference does it make? Paper presented at the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) Conference, University of Ottawa, Canada, June 16-19.
Peseta, T. & McShane, K. (2004). On being reflexive: journal writing and researcher subjectivity in the PhD. Paper presented as part of the symposium ‘Changing Knowledges, Gender and the Doctoral Process’ at the Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA). San Diego, USA, April 12-16.
Peseta, T. (2003). What do academic developers do to develop themselves? Between possibility and limitation in the scholarship of academic development. Paper presented as part of the symposium ‘On states of becoming: new academic developers on the scholarship of academic development’ at the Joint Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)/NZ Research in Education (NZRE) Conference, University of Auckland, NZ, Nov 29-Dec 3.
Peseta, T. & McShane, K. (2003). On learning journals and researcher subjectivity in the PhD. Paper presented at the Association for Qualitative Research (AQR) Conference. Coogee, NSW, Australia, July 17-20.
Brew, A., McShane, K.., & Peseta, T. (2003). Encouraging the scholarship of teaching: reflections on challenges and paradoxes. Paper presented at the Higher Education Research and Development Society Australasia (HERDSA) Conference. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, July 6-10.
Peseta, T. & Brew, A. (2003). Changes in postgraduate supervision practice: the value of feedback. Paper presented at the Higher Education Research and Development Society Australasia (HERDSA) Conference. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, July 6-10.
Brew, A. & Peseta, T. (2002). Using case studies to recognise and reward postgraduate supervision development: reflections on the pedagogy of online academic development. Paper presented at the Quality in Postgraduate Research: Integrating Perspectives Conference, Adelaide, Australia, April 18-19.
Peseta, T. (2001). Reflections on the Learning Body: thinking through the desire for pedagogical provisions in the PhD. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference, University of Notre Dame, Perth, Australia, December 1-6.
Asmar, C. & Peseta, T. (2001). 'Figuring things out from my friends": encouraging collaboration among first year students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference, University of Notre Dame, Perth, Australia, December 1-6.
Brew, A. & Peseta, T. (2001). Research-led teaching: what does it look like and how should academic developers encourage it? Paper presented at the 6th Annual Staff and Educational Developers Association (SEDA) Conference, Manchester, UK, November 21-22.
Kandlbinder, P. & Peseta, T. (2001). Postgraduate supervision as partnership. Paper presented at the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Conference, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, July 8-11.
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