It takes a village: embedding employability development

About this session

In this showcase, hear from a diverse range of academic and professional staff, students and industry members on how they collaborated to embed employability and career development within the curriculum.

Walk away with:

• New ideas on how to embed employability and career development within the curriculum
• An awareness of the supports available to you to embed employability within your curriculum.

Key themes of the showcase will include:

• Evidence-based approaches to employability development
• Leveraging partnerships and networks to enhance employability learning
• Digital transformation of the curriculum.

Get the chance to connect with colleagues from varying disciplinary backgrounds and discuss new approaches to enriching the curriculum and student learning through partnered approaches to employability.

Presenters

Facilitator: Dr Dino Willox, Student Employability

• Carrie Beddis, Student Enrichment and Employability Development
• Lawrence Casey, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
• Danielle Cave, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
• Sebastian Hagebaum, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
• Jasmine Huang, Student Enrichment and Employability Development
• Madelaine-Marie Judd, Student Enrichment and Employability Development
• Dr Judit Kibedi, School of Biomedical Sciences
• Dr Angie Knaggs, School of Languages and Cultures, HASS
• Krista Markham, Student Enrichment and Employability Development
• Ashil Ranpara, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
• Aaron Ruutz, Student Enrichment and Employability Development
• Alison Scott, Principal Learning Designer, Humanities and Social Sciences
• Nantana Taptamat, Student Enrichment and Employability Development
• Tillie Walsh, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
• Dr Caroline Wilson-Barnao, School of Communication and Arts
• Charlotte Young, Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation

Who should attend?

• Course coordinators
• Lecturers
• Tutors
• Learning designers
• Academic staff
• Professional staff
• Teaching support staff
• Industry
• Students.

Benefits of attending

• Gain a broad overview of the distinction between employability and career development
• Understand the UQ Employability Framework
• Hear examples of how employability and career development have been embedded within the curriculum at UQ
• Develop further awareness of the support/s that is available to embed employability and career development within the curriculum.