Arts and MDHS Program
Overview
| 8.45 – 9.15 | Conference registration | ||||||||
| 9.15 – 9.25 | Welcome Professor Dani Tomlin (Deputy Dean Education, MDHS) and Professor Beth Driscoll (Deputy Dean Academic, Faculty of Arts) | ||||||||
| 9.25 – 10.10 | Keynote: Professor Dave Boud, Challenges and possibilities for assessment and learning in a world infused by GenAI Professor Dave Boud | ||||||||
| 10.10 – 11.00 | Unpicking the QILT Chair: CQ Quinlan, Deputy Associate Dean, Course Innovation & Quality. Presenters: A/Prof Kelley Graydon, Course Coordinator Master of Clinical Audiology, Professor Jan Hodgson Program Director - Master of Genetic Counselling and Master of Genomics and Health | ||||||||
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Morning tea | ||||||||
| 11.30 – 12.30 | Human and relational learning Room 155, Level 1, Arts West | AI, curriculum and assessment Room 156, Level 1, Arts West | Experiential, creative and place-based learning Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West | Capabilities and futures Room 456, Level 4, Arts West | Conference posters Room 161, Level 1, Arts West | Racial Literacy Talking Space Room 262, Level 2, Arts West | |||
| 12.30 – 1.15 | Lunch Arts West Building, Parkville Campus | ||||||||
| 1.15 – 2.15 | Human and relational learning Room 155, Level 1, Arts West | AI, curriculum and assessment Room 156, Level 1, Arts West | Experiential, creative and place-based learning Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West | Capabilities and futures Room 456, Level 4, Arts West | Conference Posters Room 161, Level 1, Arts West | Racial Literacy Talking Space Room 262, Level 2, Arts West | |||
| 2.15 – 2.20 | Short break Arts West Building, Parkville Campus | ||||||||
| 2.20 – 3.20 | Human and relational learning Room 155, Level 1, Arts West | AI, curriculum and assessment Room 156, Level 1, Arts West | Experiential, creative and place-based learning Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West | Capabilities and futures Room 456, Level 4, Arts West | Conference Posters Room 161, Level 1, Arts West | Racial Literacy Talking Space Room 262, Level 2, Arts West | |||
| 3.20 – 3.30 | Short break Arts West Building, Parkville Campus | ||||||||
| 3.30 – 4.00 | Human and relational learning Room 155, Level 1, Arts West | AI, curriculum and assessment Room 156, Level 1, Arts West | Experiential, creative and place-based learning Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West | Capabilities and futures Room 456, Level 4, Arts West | Conference Posters Room 161, Level 1, Arts West | Racial Literacy Talking Space Room 262, Level 2, Arts West | |||
Day 2 presentation abstracts (hyperlink document here)
Concurrent sessions: timetable
Human and relational learning Room 155, Level 1 | AI, curriculum and assessment Room 156, Level 1 | Experiential, creative and place-based learning Forum Theatre, Level 1 | Capabilities and futures Room 456, Level 4 | |
11.30 – 11.45 | Roundtable (60 min) Widening participation and belonging Dr. Alexandra Dane, Matt Absalom, Hanna Kwak, Betiel Beyin | Workshop (60 min) Preparing healthcare professionals for a digital & data-driven future: embedding digital transformation, AI and data stewardship into healthcare education Prof. Ang Davies, Dr Sophie Moore, A/Prof. Mark Merolli | Presentation (15 min) Levelling up game-based teaching at the University of Melbourne Dr. Cassandra Barkman, Ben Loveridge, A/Prof. Matthew Harrison, Jessica Rowlings
| Presentation (15 min) Embedding social accountability in cancer sciences A/Prof. David Kok, Michelle Barrett |
11.45 – 12.00 | Session continues | Session continues | Lightning talk (5 min) Bridging the Gap: Implementing the Near Peer Project for the DDS Dr. Madeline Townsend, Dr. Katharine Dal Santo, Dr. Amy Thompson, Dr Andre Priede, Ms. Julie Owen Lightning talk (5 min) Pathways to engaging classrooms: The gamification of bioscience education for clinician scientists Dr. Natalie Kondos, Prof. Snezana Kusljic, Mr Angus Cooper, Ms Shannen McGrath
| Presentation (15 min) Let's play: Educational gaming as a source of tackling racism Dr. Wajeehah Aayeshah, Dr. Arzoo Atiq, Mohamad Desgia Adinadya Putra (Student), Tom Byers, A/Prof. Mark Finn |
12.00 – 12.15 | Session continues | Session continues | Presentation (15 min) Building a whole-of-faculty interprofessional curriculum: The CPC substrate model in practice Dr. Kim Allison, Dr. Claire Mustchin, A/Prof. David Gallant, Niki Lillibridge, Tamara Clements, Lichin Lim, Carolyn Cracknell, Campbell McKay | Presentation (15 min) Ground up: Teaching situated knowledge when the world isn't yet configuring you Dr. Matthew Campbell |
12.15 – 12.30 | Session continues | Session continues | Shared panel (15 min) New Horizons Fellowship 2026: Teaching climate and health through story, a Health Arts Collaboration Stuart Henshall, A/Prof. Rebecca Patrick | Presentation (15 min) Learning the craft of social research through collaborative practice A/Prof. Debra McDougall |
12.30 – 1.15 | Lunch | |||
1.15 – 1.30 | Presentation (15 min) Co-creating meaningful undergraduate learning experiences through a student partnership approach Dr. Daniel Clarke | Presentation (15 min) The evergreen curriculum: treating a degree program as its own learning organisation A/Prof. Kayley Lyons | Presentation (15 min) Plant to Learn the vAlue of biodiversity iN healTh (PLANT): Case study of nature-based education Dr. Jessica Abbonizio, Ms. Catherine O'Shea, Ms. Ainslie Macdonald, Dr. Gayathri Mekala, Dr. Alexis Pang, Mr. Andrew Irvin, A/Prof. Stuart Barber, A/Prof. Ken Winkel, Rachael Miller, Prof. Forbes McGain | Workshop (60 min) You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them think Dr Alice Boer-Endacott, Dr Michael "Maxx" Schmitz |
1.30 – 1.45 | Presentation (15 min) Portal perspectives: Learning from lived experience A/Prof. Kelley Graydon | Presentation (15 min) A curriculum that meets the moment? The Melbourne curriculum and uncertain futures Dr. Elena Balcaite | Presentation (15 min) Experiencing art in embodied spaces: A student virtual exhibition to enhance learning experience and collaboration Elisabetta Ferrari, Dr. Thomas Cochrane, Meredith Hinze | Session continues |
| 1.45 – 2.00 | Presentation (15 min) Creating space for all: Inclusive STEMM practice in action A/Prof. Michelle Rank, Oli Shemmell, Dr. Hendrika Duivenvoorden | Presentation (15 min) Bite-sized learning in health professional programs to improve bioscience education A/ Prof. Snezana Kusljic, Miss Rachel Thomson, A/ Prof. Kwang Meng Cham, Dr. Jessica Stander, Dr. Amanda Douglass, Miss Aleksandra Kusljic | Presentation (15 min) Building clinical communication confidence: active learning in complex audiological cases Ms. Lucy Shiels, Dr. Donella Chisari | Session continues |
| 2.00 – 2.15 | Lightning talk (5 min) Pedagogies of resistance in times of revolutionary upheaval: Reflections on validity, authenticity and nurturance from the feminist field Dr. Hannah Garden Dr. Joshua Pocius Lightning talk (5 min) Learnings from the Graduate Diploma in Hearing Healthcare Dr. Grace Nixon, A/Prof. Kelley Graydon | Presentation (15 min) How AI-vulnerable Is Australian higher education assessment? A computational audit of Group of Eight arts and humanities units, 2022-2026 Dr. Gonzalo Villanueva | Presentation (15 min) Generative relational intelligence: First Nations song pedagogy and the ethics of learning Dr. Lou Bennett | Session continues |
| 2.15 – 2.20 | Short break | |||
| 2.20 – 2.35 | Roundtable (60 min) Generating scholarship through the nexus of teaching and research Dr. Erin Stapleton, Prof. Fiona Fidler, Dr. Anna Kosovac, Dr. Georgina Walker, Cynthia Palikat | Workshop (60 min) How AI exposed is your degree? A/Prof. Kayley Lyons, Mr. David Mulholland, Mrs. Rafif Algethami | Talking space (60 min) Anti-racism and racial Literacy: A talking space Dr. Kay Are, Dr Wajeehah Aayeshah, Dr Odette Kelada, Dr Hayley Singer | Lightning talk (5 min) Evolving capstones to cultivate professional identity and collaborative skills Dr. Yeptain Leung, Dr. Kelly Bower, Sarah Greet, Campbell McKay, Dr. Kim Allison Lightning talk (5 min) SoTL: An unexpected Journey Dr. Madeline Townsend Lightning talk (5 min) Learnings from the Graduate Diploma in Hearing Healthcare Dr. Grace Nixon, A/Prof. Kelley Graydon |
| 2.35 – 2.50 | Session continues | Session continues | Session continues | Workshop (45 minutes) Generative [integrative] intelligence in SoTL: Designing mixed methods projects with joint displays Dr. Jessica Stander |
| 2.50 – 3.05 | Session continues | Session continues | Session continues | Session continues |
| 3.05 – 3.20 | Session continues | Session continues | Session continues | Session continues |
| 3.20 – 3.30 | Short break | |||
| 3.30 – 3.45 | Presentation (15 min) What does UDL look like in practice? Improving accessibility in Canvas Meredith Hinze | Presentation (15 min) Interdisciplinary international health science student experiences - Hokkaido, Japan Dr. Tandy Hastings-Ison, Dr. Nicole Hill | Lightning talk (5 min) In defence of the essay Dr. Alanna Myers Lightning talk (5 min) Extending the self: Generative AI as situated sense-making in international students' higher education learning Dr. Aiman Rizal, Yasha Barretto | Presentation (15 min) Evaluation of pilot interdisciplinary research capstone projects in graduate health education Dr. Rachel Toovey, Dr. Kelly Bower, Dr. Free Coulston, Prof. Lucio Naccarella, Prof. Dani Tomlin |
| 3.45 – 4.00 | Presentation (15 min) Teams that learn: Cultivating connection and belonging across a paediatric health campus Danica Van Den Dungen, Dr. Daniela Ramirez, Dr. Paola Villanueva | Shared Panel (15 min) Success is making mistakes: Using design thinking to help students navigate ambiguity Dr. Kidjie Saguin | Presentation (15 min) It is more than a checklist: rethinking cultural competence in health professional training Ms. Donya Eghrari | Lightning talk (5 min) Which Form of object-based learning is the most impactful? Dr. Nick Pendergrast, Dr. Heather Gaunt, Jennifer Gray Lightning talk (5 min) Oral exams on trial Tim Coronel, Dr. Fiannuala Morgan |
27 October – 28 October 2026, The University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus
Contacts: Tim Beaumont | timothy.beaumont@unimelb.edu.au Dr Abi Brooker | brookera@unimelb.edu.au