Professor Michelle Picard

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching Innovation)

Learning and Teaching Innovation

+61 8 82914937

michelle.picard@flinders.edu.au

Bedford Park (453)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Michelle Picard currently serves as Pro-Vice Chancellor Learning and Teaching Innovation at Flinders University.

Michelle Picard has been working in the fields of Higher Education and Applied Linguistics since 1989. She has taught at every level from Primary and Adult Basic Education and Training to Researcher Education programs to PhD and post-doctoral fellows. Her university work has spanned enabling/Foundation programs, ELICOS, academic language and learning and lecturing and supervising within Schools of Education, Arts and Social Sciences.

Michelle has lived and worked in Australia, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and The Sultanate of Oman and regularly taught programs in Singapore.

Her fields of expertise include all levels of academic literacy development including academic integrity, TESOL, higher education, online and blended learning and English for Academic Purposes and supervises in the fields of Education, Applied Linguistics and Media.

Michelle has held a number of leadership positions prior to joining Flinders including Associate Dean of the Faculty of the Professions and Director, Researcher Education at the University of Adelaide, Director of Studies at two ELICOS centres and numerous coordinator positions. She served as Deputy Director within the English Language and Foundation Studies Centre at the University of Newcastle from July 2016 to July 2019. She then worked as Dean of Teaching and Learning in the College/Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Social Sciences at Murdoch University from July 2019 to October 2022 as well as Acting Executive Dean from March to October 2022.

Qualifications

Disciplinary Qualifications:

PhD (Higher) Education/Applied Linguistics, Rhodes University, South Africa, Graduated March 2007

MA/MEd (ESL), Rhodes University, South Africa, Graduated March 2001

BA English and Drama, Pretoria University, South Africa, Graduated December 1991.

Honours in English, Pretoria University, South Africa, Graduated December 1992.

Teaching Qualifications:

Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Graduated March 2009

Adult Basic Education and Training Graduate Diploma, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa, Graduated December 1998.

Higher Education Diploma (Secondary Teaching), Pretoria University, South Africa, Graduated 1993

Key responsibilities

The Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching Innovation) is responsible for strategic leadership of learning, teaching and innovation, including:

• ensuring the effective support for students in relation to academic language, literacy, numeracy, and enabling programs.
• adoption of advanced learning technologies and other educational innovations to enhance student success;
• supporting University staff to design and deliver contemporary educational programs that reflect the University’s ethos to be student centred and demonstrate a paramount focus on student success;
• overseeing student as partner opportunities and student learning experience activities, which include orientation, student communications and relevant events

Teaching interests

Research Design

Research Communication

Online and Blended Learning

Higher Education teaching

Topic coordinator

FNST0100 Foundation

Supervisory interests

Academic advising

Academic writing for ESL/EFL students

English as a foreign language

Higher education studies