Australia Association for Research in Education
COVID-19 and universities
We asked academics to be real about work. Here are our new findings
My children were two and three years old in March of 2020 when Sydney went into its first COVID-19 lockdown. At the time, I was in an education-focussed leadership role but also still teaching and conducting research. I was supporting my colleagues as they pivoted to online learning at the same time as helping implement …
Broken but alive – COVID’s gender impacts in Australian universities now
“Two days to pivot online, it’s business as usual. We care about you, but your student evaluation scores are low. We’re in this together – where are your three research outputs?” …
Five Ways to Rethink Online and Blended Learning Post-COVID
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Australian universities rapidly shifted to online models of learning and teaching. Some …
At least six ways COVID has crushed higher education (now university managers make it worse)
Even less work-life balance, anxiety around online skills, fears the pandemic will be used to crush academic autonomy …
COVID-19 has destroyed academic careers & stalled equity in our universities: Death knell or opportunity?
In mid-March, my university sent me and my colleagues home to work remotely for what everyone thought would be a week, maybe ten days. It was meant to be just enough time for Victoria to get on top of the virus that was increasingly in the news. More than 280 days later, most of us …