Previous grant recipients
UQ has two grant schemes designed to recognise and encourage innovation in our teaching and learning staff.
Previous Teaching Innovation Grant and Early Career Educational Research Grant recipients are listed below.
For the list of grant recipients prior to 2018: please email our Teaching Recognition Coordinator at teaching.grants@uq.edu.au. There were no teaching grants awarded in 2020.
2021
- Adapting the face-to-face 'three colour tutorials' innovation to an online teaching environment
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, $24,990
Dr Frederique Bracoud
- Enhancing online assessment through a critical thinking focus
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, $100,000
Professor Deborah Brown and Dr Peter Ellerton
- Improving the evidence base about ways to strengthen student engagement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, $70,000
Professor Tracey Bunda
- Leading by example: an expert-led Sport and Exercise Injury, Participation and Performance Clinic to enhance the student experience
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, $72,000
Dr Natalie Collins
- An institutional pilot for Microsoft FlipGrid: offering belonging, authentic assessment, flexibility and engagement all in the one video-blogging tool
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, $17,700
Dr Seb Dianati
- Growing inclusive learning communities: Enhancing inclusive teaching and learning at UQ through professional learning, student partnerships and effective practice
Faculty of Science, $113,670
Professor Gwendolyn Lawrie
- Indigenising the curriculum at the UQ Business School
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, $88,763
Dr Sharlene Leroy-Dyer
- Investigating application and implementation of innovative and blended classrooms using virtual reality in anatomy at UQ
Faculty of Medicine, $8,500
Professor Mark Midwinter
- Belonging to a learning community: a first-year experience that develops professional identity in the Social Sciences
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, $8,500
Dr Lynda Shevellar
- Scaffolding students effectively: using multiple digital approaches to foster authentic coaching to enhance student employability
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, $150,000
Associate Professor Garth Stahl
- Visualising digital footprints to enhance learning engagement in work integrated learning (WIL)
Faculty of Medicine, $150,000
Associate Professor Helen Wozniak
- Supporting integration of foundational science learning with clinical application through an asynchronous interactive platform
Faculty of Medicine, $14,919 (Early Career Educational Research Grant)
Dr Iulia Oancea
- Digitally driven interactive in-class demonstrations to bolster student learning and engagement in large in-person and online classes
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology, $14,576 (Early Career Educational Research Grant)
Dr Chamith Wijenayake
2019
- Building Digital Literacy and interprofessional learning of health professional students by embedding teaching cases in an electronic medical record
Faculty of Medicine, $190,528
Dr Benjamin Barry
- Embedding high quality feedback and assessment practices that engage students as partners in the classroom
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences and Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation, $181,911
Dr Eimear Enright and Associate Professor Kelly Matthews
- Events Plus: a transdisciplinary collaboration to improve experiential learning through the development of a Small Private Online Course (SPOC)
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, $192,763
Dr Sheranne Fairley
- NOW What? Indigenising architecture and design
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology, $17,000
Ms Carroll Go-Sam
- Maximising the pedagogical benefits of video for engagement and learning
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, $83,204
Associate Professor Jason Lodge
- Linking Public Health education with practice within a University Reconciliation Garden
Faculty of Medicine, $140,742
Dr Preetha Thomas
- Expanding the capacity and functionality of the 4D construction learning environment to incorporate additional case studies and virtual reality experiences
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology, $57,530
Associate Professor Chris Landorf
- Operation outbreak: Escape rooms for developing interprofessional communication, team building and conflict management skills
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, $55,000
Associate Professor Neil Cottrell
- AUTHENTICATE: a virtual learning environment that uses Avatars to immerse students in authentic experiences
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, $51,513
Ann Wallin
2018
- Clinical Educator Professional Development Program: ClinEd2U@UQ
Faculty of Medicine, $179,170
Professor Geoff McColl, Associate Professor Peter Cabot, Professor Stuart Carney, Professor Nigel Perkins, Professor Sarah Roberts-Thomson, Dr Daniel Schull, Professor Nick Shaw
- Development and Dissemination of a Student-Led Adaptive Learning Platform
Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation / School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, $178,907
Dr Hassan Khosravi, Professor Shazia Sadiq, Professor Annemaree Carroll, Professor Dragan Gasevic, Associate Professor Lydia Kavanagh, Dr Pavla Simerska, Associate Professor Christine Staatz
- The EDLS Project: Embedding the development of Digital Literacy Skills within undergraduate and postgraduate curricula across multiple disciplines at UQ
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, $136,364
Associate Professor Peter Lewis, Associate Professor Pedro Isaias, Dr Christine Slade, Kathleen Smeaton, Noela Yates, Dr Vicente Reyes, Dr Adriana Diaz, Dr Nicholas Carah, Associate Professor Gwen Lawrie, Dr Jack Wang
- Urban Water, Energy, Planning and Design Challenge: a scenario-driven, game-based, UQ-wide tournament to improve future cities
School of Chemical Engineering, $134,954
Professor Paul Lant, Associate Professor Steven Kenway, Paola Maria, Dr Ilje Pikaar, Professor Peta Ashworth, Sébastien Darchen, Dr Marguerite Renouf
- Developing authentic online assessment to support collaborative explanation and critical reasoning in large classes
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, $133,110
Associate Professor Gwendolyn Lawrie, Associate Professor Lydia Kavanagh, Associate Professor Vincent Wheatley, Philip Waller, Dr Efpraxia Kartsonaki, Dr Philip Sharpe
- Lab in the Clouds: Using the cloud to deliver customised computing environments – easily deployed for teaching at scale or remotely
School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, $60,996
Dr Ingo Jahn, Dr Rowan Gollan, Dr Stephen Hall, Ms Melanie Fleming, Dr Surya Singh, Phil Waller
- Developing flexible digital assessment strategies for cross-disciplinary implementation
School of Communication and Arts, $60,000
Dr Natalie Collie, Dr Seb Dianati, Ms Kerry Kilner, Dr Nicholas Carah, Dr Simone Smala, Professor Kim Bryceson, Ms Linda MacDonald, Dr Aneesha Bakharia, Mr Philip Waller, Mr Jack Mason
- Microcredentialling, digital badges and the development of effective transdisciplinary professional learning across large degree programs
School of Social Science, $60,000
Associate Professor Andrew Fairbairn, Dr Deanne Gannaway, Mr Christopher Front, Dr Glenys McGowan, Associate Professor Patrick Moss, Dr Janette McWilliam, Professor Lynda Cheshire
- LabPass: a flexible online learning tool and management system for practical assignments in large classes
School of Civil Engineering, $60,000
Dr Remo Cossu, Dr Surya Singh, Mr Joseph Nagy, Professor Matthew Davis, Ms Melanie Fleming
- Strengthening capacity for IP work-integrated learning through the development of authentic assessment of IP skills in clinical and simulation contexts
School of Dentistry, $53,975
Dr Emma Bartle, Dr Anne Hill, Associate Professor Jodie Copley, Dr Ruth Dunwoodie, Dr Karen Luetsch
- Assessment Ideas Factory: Improving assessment practice across The University of Queensland
School of Social Science, $53,468
Dr Mair Underwood, Christopher Frost, Dr Deanne Gannaway, Dr Aaron Herndon, Associate Professor Pierre Benckendorff, Dr Helen Wozniak
- HistONline: A digital microscopy resource for teaching
School of Biomedical Sciences, $30,000
Dr Rachel Claire Aland, Associate Professor Glenda Gobe, Mrs Carolyn Cluderay, Dr Charlotte Young, Professor Mark Midwinter
- The learning and teaching of complex CFD software: how do students learn to use it and does it promote an improved understanding of Fluid Dynamics?
School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering, $15,000 (Early Career Educational Research Grant)
Dr Stephen Hall
- Interprofessional Management of Pain (IPMP): preparing health professional students for future practice
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, $14,478 (Early Career Educational Research Grant)
Dr Roma Forbes