Emeritus ProfessorTerry Evans

Terry Evans (BEd (Hons) Sussex, UK; MEd, PhD Monash) is a professor in the
School of Education and is located at the Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus. He has
had a wide range of teaching experience in the school, College of Advanced
Education and University sectors and he has been a visiting scholar interstate
and overseas. He was the Deakin University foundation director of the joint
Master of Distance Education program with the University of South Australia
and continues to teach on that program. Terry Evans has conducted research in
all educational settings from pre-schools through to universities. His recent
research and scholarship is in the field of doctoral policy and practice. He
has also research and published widely in the fields of open, flexible and
distance education including work on professional and vocational education and
training, and new educational technologies. He is a member of several
editorial boards and has consultancy experience in various fields. He is a
member of the Council of Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies. He is the
convenor of the six Research in Distance Education conferences held at Deakin
University since 1989. He is the author of A Gender Agenda (Sydney, Allen &
Unwin, 1988), Understanding Learners in Open and Distance Education. (London,
Kogan Page, 1994) and the co-editor of ten books including Opening Education:
policies and practices from open and distance education (with D Nation,
London, Routledge, 1996), Shifting Borders: globalisation, localisation and
open and distance education (with L Rowan & Bartlett, Geelong, Deakin
University Press, 1997) and Research in Distance Education 6 (with P Smith & E
Stacey, Geelong, in press).