2025 Learning and Teaching Conference

Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th October 2025

Learning Together, Teaching Together

Plenary sessions

9.00 – 9.30	Conference registration Atrium, Arts West
9.30 – 9.45	Welcome Professor Jennifer Balint, Dean of the Faculty of Arts; Professor Beth Driscoll, Deputy Dean (Education) Faculty of Arts; Professor Elizabeth Molloy, Deputy Dean, Education, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West
9.45 – 10.30	Keynote: Care and attention: Reflections from the New Horizons Fellows Dr Sonia Jawaid Shaikh and Dr Nicola Redhouse, New Horizon Fellows, chaired by Professor Kristen Pammer Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West
10.30 – 11.00	Student panel: Learning together: The value of engaging with students for educational practice and direction Dyumna Awasthi (Arts), Udhanka Saravanan (Arts), Chloe Campbell (MDHS) and Christina Lin (MDHS) Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West Presentation slides
11.00 – 11.30	Morning tea Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre, Arts West

Day 2 presentation abstracts

Concurrent sessions: morning

	Pedagogy Room 161, Level 1, Arts West	Diversity, equity, inclusion Forum Theatre, Arts West	AI & assessment Room 156, Level 1, Arts West	Wellbeing, WiL, employability Room 155, Level 1, Arts West
11.30 – 11.45	Roundtable (11.30 – 12.30) Cultural collections in action: transformative object-based learning and work-integrated learning practices in Arts and MDHS A/Prof Kwang Cham, Dr Heather Gaunt, Dr Kim Goodwin, Dr Olivia Meehan, Dr Rosie Shea, Dr Georgina Walker	Roundtable (11.30 – 12.30) Exclusive university – inclusive teaching and learning Dr. Kerstin Knight, Dr Kay Are, A/Prof Femke Buisman-Pijlman, A/Prof Grace Thompson, Nila Shekarvand, Dr Joshua Pocius	Presentation Development of a new approach to ongoing simulation and clinical assessments at Melbourne Dental School Ms Sarah Laing, Dr Michael Wylie	Presentation What makes a learning & teaching innovation impactful? A scoping review. Dr Claudia Rivera Munoz, Dr Laura Dooley, A/Prof Amber Willems-Jones, Dr Mehmet Ozmen, Dr Abi Brooker Presentation slides
11.45 – 12.00	Session continues	Session continues	Presentation Findings and reflections on implementing AI-enhanced activities in an EAP class Dr Giuseppe D’Orazzi, Dr Carrie Peng	Presentation Diversifying the narrative and the medium: the use of podcasts to teach journalism A/Prof Louisa Lim, Dr Wajeehah Aayeshah, Dr Niles Zhao
12.00 – 12.15	Session continues	Session continues	Presentation The value of assuring learning: Leveraging AI for secure assessment design Dr Allison Creed, Dr Elizabeth Lakey, Dr Guy Morrow	Presentation Engaged reflexivity and its value for transformative higher education in Development Studies Dr Denisse Rodriguez Quinonez, David Lozada
12.15 – 12.30	Session continues	Session continues	Session continues	Session continues
12.30 – 12.45	Workshop Haikus: Creative approach to inspire discussion and assessment joy Dr Vivian Romero Presentation slides	Workshop Fostering cultural diversity Dr Said Shafa, Dr Xue Jun Cheng, Dr Vanja Rozenblat, Dr Angelina Fong, Dr Sophie Paquet-Fifield, Dr Samantha Marangell Presentation slides	Workshop From feedback to feed forward: Rethinking rubrics as catalysts for learning and equity Dr Jessica Lees, Ms Ashley Anderson	Presentation From conceptual to concrete: learning ethics in a clinical ethics committee for medical students A/Professor Rosalind McDougall, Professor Clare Delany, Mr Jerry Luo, Dr Carolyn Johnson, Professor Lynn Gillam, Ms Katheryn Hall, Ms Sharon Feldman, Ms Meaghan Storey Presentation slides
12.45 – 1.00	Session continues	Session continues	Session continues	Presentation Using a podcast interview assessment task as an ‘enhanced assessment’ tool for reflective practice A/Prof Nathan Stam
1.00 – 1.15	Presentation The transformative potential of the creative writing workshop Associate Professor Julienne van Loon, Dr Nadia Niaz, Bec Kavanagh	Lightning Talk A pedagogy of kindness: An emotive foundation for internationalising teaching and learning  Dr Shashini Gamage Lightning Talk Sensory-dialogical approaches to educating for equity and inclusion: Using Japan as a cross-cultural case study Dr Jenny Hall		Presentation Learning professionalism using creativity and diversity concepts Dr Guy Morrow, Associate Professor Kwang Cham, Dr Anu Polster

Lunch
1.30pm – 2.30, Atrium, Arts West

Concurrent sessions: afternoon

	Pedagogy Room 161, Level 1, Arts West	Diversity, equity, inclusion Forum Theatre, Arts West	AI & assessment Room 156, Level 1, Arts West	Wellbeing, WiL, employability Room 155, Level 1, Arts West
2.30 – 2.45	Presentation “My views changed from thinking that the conflict could be simply resolved to understanding the nuances…”: Diving into global politics through simulation-based learning Dr Gonzalo Villanueva	Roundtable Collaborative peer review of teaching: Enhancing equity and practice in language classrooms Ruonan Zeng, Dr Zhenyi Guo, Dr Sally Chan, Tamami Mori, Hiroko Woods	Roundtable Is ChatGPT the saviour of the academy? Dr Alice Boer-Endacott, Dr James Bradley, Dr Gerhard Wisenfeldt, Dr Anna Kosova, Dr Maxx Schmitz	Roundtable Promoting world-readiness through work integrated learning curriculum Dr Elena Balcaite, Dr Tahlia Birnbaum, Dr Mell Chun, Dr Matt Holden, Dr Isidro Martinez Garcia, Emerald Young, Yutong Chen
2.45 – 3.00	Valuing pedagogies of the popular - A dancers approach to teaching cultural studies Dr Elena Benthaus	Session continues	Session continues	Session continues
3.00 – 3.15	"You can’t be a hegemon and isolationist “: Students’ reflections on the decline of the US hegemony and the future of the international order Dr Nuri Veronika	Session continues	Session continues	Session continues
3.15 – 3.30	Session continues	Session continues	Session continues	Session continues
3.30 – 3.45	Roundtable Enhancing classroom learning through innovative uses of PowerPoint Dr Anthony Williams	Roundtable Diversity, inclusion and curriculum in the Faculty of Arts: Turning words into action Tamami Mori, Dr Hannah McCann, Dr Caroline Kyi, Dr Giuseppe D’Orazzi, Associate Professor Claire Spivakovsky, Professor Ikuko Nakane, Dr Wajeehah Aayeshah, Pratiwi, Hina Ueda	Roundtable Building creativity in teaching, learning, and research: A hands-on workshop for the age of AI Pedro Guarracino	Lightning Talk Scaffolding language learning and building cultural inquiry through structured object-based classes Ruonan Zeng, Xiaoju Liu, Johanna Petkov Lightning Talk If you can see it, you can do it: Promoting motivation and wellbeing through vision-enhancing activities in language education Dr Riccardo Amorati
3.45 – 4.00	Session continues	Session continues	Session continues	Lightning Talk Bridging theory and practice: An analysis of the Master of Applied Linguistics Capstone subject in fostering intercultural competence and professional readiness Dr Beatrice Venturin
4.00 – 4.30	Session continues	Session continues	Session continues

27 October – 28 October 2025, The University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus
Contacts: Tim Beaumont | timothy.beaumont@unimelb.edu.au Dr Abi Brooker | brookera@unimelb.edu.au