ProfessorLiz Johnson

Deakin Distinguished Professor Liz Johnson leads Deakin's ambitious Education and
Employability strategy, including the drive to premium digital learning and
outstanding student experience. Professor Johnson's portfolio includes
Indigenous Strategy, Academic Governance and Standards, Graduate Employment,
Faculty Services, Student Services, the Deakin Library, Deakin Learning
Futures, the Dean of Students, and the Centre for Research in Assessment and
Digital Learning (CRADLE).

As Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education from 2019-2021, Professor Johnson steered
teaching and learning at Deakin through the disruption of the COVID pandemic,
building from extensive projects on Deakin's online learning environment,
teaching innovation and course development and staff capability for learning
and teaching. During this period, she sponsored re-imagining and restructure
of Deakin's professional services for students and Faculties, substantive
renewal of teaching and learning design and an institution-wide transformation
to online assessment.

Professor Johnson has led whole-of-institution curriculum reform projects at
Deakin University as Pro-Vice-Chancellor Teaching and Learning (2014-2018) and
previously at La Trobe University. She has led nationally funded projects,
including Successful WIL in Science, on work-integrated learning in science
faculties, funded by the Office of the Chief Scientist of Australia and the
Department of Education and Training. She was awarded an OLT National Teaching
Fellowship in 2012 and worked with the Australian Council of Deans of Science
to establish the ACDS Teaching and Learning Centre and as its inaugural
Director.

Professor Johnson trained as a plant biochemist and taught university
biochemistry for over 30 years. She In 2006 she was awarded citations for
outstanding contributions to teaching and learning from La Trobe University
and from the Carrick Institute. In recognition of her ongoing contributions to
biochemistry education, in 2007 she received the prestigious Invitrogen
Education award from the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology (ASBMB), and the 2007 Vice-Chancellor's award for teaching from La
Trobe University. She now researches and publishes in areas associated with
curriculum renewal, work-integrated learning and digital credentialing.

Deakin University has conferred on Professor Johnson the title of Deakin
Distinguished Professor, the highest honour the University can bestow on a member of
the academic staff, recognising their outstanding and sustained contribution
to furthering Deakin's aims.