2026 Teaching and Learning Conference Program
Abstracts
Shared spaces
Quiet room
Open across the two days of the conference will be room G20, Arts West. This space welcomes all colleagues in for bodily rest and sensory restoration. Come in to stretch out, rest eyes, renew the social battery; put restless hands towards a little fibre-crafting or add to a collective paper-based artwork; or just get some solitary work done in the company of plant life and ambient music.
Anti-Racism and Racial Literacy: A Talking Space
Drop into room 262 Arts West for a dedicated, prepared space between sessions and in rest breaks for respectful, informed, collegiate dialogue about race, anti-racism, and racial literacy in teaching. Equipped with curated print resources and prompts for reflection, the Talking Space welcomes colleagues who are looking to better understand and find their way with anti-racist practices. Watch a looped documentary, take away how-to printouts, share your own learning and experiences.
Poster Presentation space
On the shared day, Tuesday 27 October, there will be a Poster Presentation space on level 1, room 161 Arts West. MDHS staff will have posters on their conference topics which staff can browse through throughout the day.
Global Humanities Alliance Challenge: Democracy in Action
What does democracy look like in everyday life? This exhibition brings together photographs and short written reflections from students and staff across the Global Humanities Alliance's partner Universities. The submissions explore how democracy is experienced, contested, and expressed on campuses and communities around the world. The exhibition will be on display starting from Wednesday the 28th of October in the Arts West Student Space gallery (Ground Floor, Room G17-G8).
Day 1 - Tuesday 27 October
8:45 - 9:15 | Registration, tea and coffee Atrium, Arts West |
9:15 - 9:25 | Welcome – Professor Beth Driscoll, Deputy Dean (Academic) Faculty of Arts; Professor Dani Tomlin, Deputy Dean, Education, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (MDHS) Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West |
9:25 - 10:10 | Keynote: Challenges for assessment and learning in a world infused by GenAI - Professor Dave Boud Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West |
| 10:10 - 11:00 | Unpicking the QILT - Chaired by A/Prof CQ Quinan, Deputy Associate Dean, Course Innovation & Quality, with A/Prof Daniel McCarthy and Dr Katherine Day from the Faculty of Arts and A/Prof Kelley Graydon and Professor Jan Hodgson from MDHS Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Morning tea Atrium, Arts West | |||
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| Theme | Human and relational learning | AI, curriculum and assessment | Experiential, creative & place-based learning | Capabilities & futures |
| Location | Room 155, Level 1, Arts West | Room 156, Level 1, Arts West | Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West | Room 456, Level 4, Arts West |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | 60 minute Roundtable: Widening Participation Round Table Dr. Alexandra Dane, Matt Absalom, Hanna Kwak, Betiel Beyin, |
60 minute Roundtable: Preparing healthcare professionals for a digital & data-driven future: embedding digital transformation, AI and data stewardship into healthcare education | 15 minute Long Presentations: 5 minute Lightning talk: Bridging the Gap: Implementing the Near Peer Project for the DDS 15 minute Long Presentations: Building a whole-of-faculty interprofessional curriculum: The CPC substrate model in practice New Horizons Fellowship 2026: Teaching Climate and Health Through Story, A Health Arts Collaboration | 15 minute Long Presentations: Embedding social accountability in cancer sciences Levelling Up Game-Based Teaching at the University of Melbourne Ground Up: Teaching Situated Knowledge When the World Isn't Yet Configuring You Learning the craft of social research through collaborative practice |
| 12:30 - 1:15 | Lunch Atrium, Arts West | |||
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| Theme | Human and relational learning | AI, curriculum and assessment | Experiential, creative & place-based learning | Capabilities & futures |
| Location | Room 155, Level 1, Arts West | Room 156, Level 1, Arts West | Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West | Room 456, Level 4, Arts West |
| 1:15 - 2:15 | 15 minute Long Presentations: Portal perspectives: Learning from lived experience Creating Space for All: Inclusive STEMM Practice in Action 5 minute Lightning talk: Pedagogies of Resistance in Times of Revolutionary Upheaval: Reflections on validity, authenticity and nurturance from the feminist field Learnings from the Graduate Diploma in Healthcare | 15 minute Long Presentations: The evergreen curriculum: treating a degree program as its own learning organisation Let's play: Educational Gaming as a source of tackling racism | 15 minute Long Presentations: Plant to Learn the vAlue of biodiversity iN healTh (PLANT): Case study of nature-based education Experiencing Art in embodied spaces: A student virtual exhibition to enhance learning experience and collaboration Building clinical communication confidence: active learning in complex audiological cases Generative Relational Intelligence: First Nations Song Pedagogy and the Ethics of Learning | 60 minute Roundtable: You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them think |
Short 5 minute break |
| Theme | Human and relational learning | AI, curriculum and assessment | Experiential, creative & place-based learning | Capabilities & futures |
| Location | Room 155, Level 1, Arts West | Room 156, Level 1, Arts West | Media Lab, room 262, Arts West | Room 456, Level 4, Arts West |
| 2:20 - 3:20 | 60 minute Roundtable: Generating scholarship through the nexus of teaching and research | 60 minute Workshop: How AI exposed is your degree? | 60 minute Roundtable: Anti-Racism and Racial Literacy: A Talking Space | 5 minute Lightning talk: Evolving capstones to cultivate professional identity and collaborative skills SoTL: An Unexpected Journey 45 minute Workshop: Generative [Integrative] intelligence in SoTL: Designing mixed methods projects with joint displays |
Short 10 minute break |
| Theme | Human and relational learning | AI, curriculum and assessment | Experiential, creative & place-based learning | Capabilities & futures |
| Location | Room 155, Level 1, Arts West | Room 156, Level 1, Arts West | Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West | Room 456, Level 4, Arts West |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | 15 minute Presentation: What Does UDL Look Like in Practice? Improving Accessibility in Canvas Teams that learn: Cultivating connection and belonging across a paediatric health campus | 15 minute Presentation: Interdisciplinary international health science student experiences - Hokkaido, Japan | 5 minute Lightning talk: In defence of the essay Extending the Self: Generative AI as Situated Sense-Making in International Students' Higher Education Learning | 15 minute Presentation: Evaluation of pilot interdisciplinary research capstone projects in graduate health education 5 minute Lightning talk: Which Form of Object-Based Learning is the Most Impactful? Oral Exams on Trial |
Day 2 - Wednesday 28 October
| Theme | Human and relational learning | AI, curriculum and assessment | Experiential, creative & place-based learning | Global Humanities Alliance | |
| Location | Room 155, Level 1, Arts West | Room 156, Level 1, Arts West | Room 161, Level 1, Arts West | Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West | |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | 60 minute Roundtable: Launch and Interactive Workshop for the Learning and Teaching Resource Bank for First-Year Arts Educators Prof. Jacqueline Dutton, Dr. Nida Mollison, Andrea Dodu-Balu, Dr. Wajeehah Aayeshah, Dr. Callum Reid, Dr. Tahlia Birnbaum, Dr. Nira Rahman, Annelise Roberts, Scott Welsh, Simon Christie, Natalie Lynch | 60 minute Roundtable: | 15 minute Long Presentations: Manifestos, Digital Artefacts and Feminist Political Subjectivity in the Age of AI From tug-of-war to push-hands: teaching-led research, research-led teaching Teaching GenAI - Augmentation, Discovery & Ethics — Mitch Goodwin | 60 minute Roundtable: Critical Mapping as teaching and learning: Revealing the layers of campuses or cities | |
| Theme | Human and relational learning | AI, curriculum and assessment | Experiential, creative & place-based learning | Global Humanities Alliance |
| Location | Room 155, Level 1, Arts West | Room 156, Level 1, Arts West | Room 161, Level 1, Arts West | Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | 60 minute Roundtable: Reimagining international students and curriculum intelligence | 15 minute Long Presentations: From Language Learning to Professional Capability: Making Multilingual Skills Visible through Work-Integrated Learning 5 minute Lightning talk: Collaborative Knowledge: Reflections on trialling an in-class observed assessment Dr. Rosie Clare Shorter, Dr Ebony Muller, Hannah Fairlamb AI in Learning Design: The four D's of putting AI to work in your teaching Permitted but Scrutinised: Student AI Disclosure Practices in Assessment Teaching Argument and Text Construction in the Age of AI: Concepts and Approaches from EAP | 60 minute Roundtable: Learning from experience: the development of a classroom-based experiential learning toolkit for the Humanities and Social Sciences | 60 minute Roundtable: Teaching in Polarising Times: Pedagogy, Popular Culture and Political Self-Expression in the Age of Democratic Collapse |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Morning tea Atrium, Arts West | |||
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| Theme | Human and relational learning | AI, curriculum and assessment | Experiential, creative & place-based learning | Global Humanities Alliance |
| Location | Room 155, Level 1, Arts West | Room 156, Level 1, Arts West | Room 161, Level 1, Arts West | Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | 60 minute Roundtable: Settler Cultures, Chinese Nationalism and Pedagogical Dichotomies: Teaching Experiences and Strategies | 60 minute Workshop: What Does Implementing UDL Look Like in Practice? A Canvas Accessibility Hackathon | 5 minute Lightning Talk: Care in pedagogical practice: Reflections on the Art History Reading Room Beyond the Default: Inclusive Prompting as Design Practice 15 minute Presentation: From Classroom to Gallery: An Experiential Approach to Language Learning From Stage to Site: Experiential and Place-Based Learning in the Ancient World | 60 minute Roundtable: Learning Sustainability with Place: Sensory, Affective, Imaginative and Situated Pedagogy, Creative Making and Practice |
| 12:30 - 1:15 | Lunch Atrium, Arts West | |||
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Theme | Human and relational learning | AI, curriculum and assessment | Experiential, creative & place-based learning | Global Humanities Alliance |
| Location | Room 155, Level 1, Arts West | Room 156, Level 1, Arts West | Room 161, Level 1, Arts West | Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West |
| 1:15 - 2:15 | 60 minute Roundtable: Imagining Disability Otherwise: Speculative Pedagogy and the Generative Intelligence of Disagreement | 15 minute Presentation: Access-Aware Secure Assessment: Equitable Design and Scaffolding Strategies from Across the Faculties Case Competitions as Authentic and Assured Assessment in Arts and Cultural Management Making students actors in the digital world: integrating start up projects into a subject format Student-negotiated assessment and its application within an industry project masters subject | 60 minute Roundtable: Decolonising the curriculum: Frameworks, approaches and practical suggestions | 60 minute Roundtable: Building partnerships: the role of professional staff in the Global Humanities Alliance |
2:15 - 3:00 | Student Panel Forum Theatre, Arts West |
Theme | Human and relational learning | AI, curriculum and assessment | Experiential, creative & place-based learning | Global Humanities Alliance |
| Location | Room 155, Level 1, Arts West | Room 156, Level 1, Arts West | Room 161, Level 1, Arts West | Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West |
| 3:00 - 4:00 pm | 5 minute Lightning Talk: From Input Errors to Learning Opportunities: Reclaiming Romanised Input for Chinese and Japanese Language Learning 15 minute Presentation: Naming your standpoint: addressing perceived bias through in-class critical reflections in Development Studies Constructing Creative Identity for International Students and Graduates through Cross-cohort Community of Practice: Case Study of Arts-China Connect | 15 minute Presentation: Teaching Purposeful Engagement: Rethinking Communication Education in the Age of Generative AI From AI Assistance to Active Learning: Redesigning Chinese Character Pedagogy Unsettling Belonging: Decolonial Inquiry and Relational Learning in the Arabic Capstone | 60 minute Roundtable: Delivering Next Generation Capstones for This Generation's Graduates | 60 minute Roundtable: Cross-discipline, cross-border: exploring the value of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in changing professional environments |