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Learning and Teaching Fellow
A/Prof Sean Brawley
The inaugural FASS Academic Fellow is Sean Brawley from the School of History and Philosophy. Sean has a long-held interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL). He is a member of the Australian College of Educators, the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, a founder of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History, and a member of the editorial board of Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. His achievements in scholarly teaching include:
1. Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, (1998).
2. Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2003).
3. Australian College of Educators Quality Teaching Award (2004).
4. UNSW nominee for the Australian University Teacher of the Year in the Humanities (2005).
5. Carrick Institute Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2007).
Sean has published and presented international conference papers on the following topics; educational technology and history teaching, educational theory and the humanities, approaches to the teaching of the Vietnam War, the use of role play, the internationalisation of peer review, and the international organization of SOTL within discipline communities. Current projects include SOTL and national difference, cognitive apprenticeships and disciplinary ways of thinking and doing, reversing the teaching/research nexus to examine the impact of teaching on research.
