ProfessorRola Ajjawi

Rola Ajjawi is Associate Professor of Educational Research at the Centre for
Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University,
Australia. She has a Bachelor's Honours Degree in Physiotherapy and worked as
a physiotherapist and clinical educator before moving into academia full-time
with the completion of her PhD in 2007. Since then she has led a program of
research centred on work-integrated learning with an interest in inclusion,
assessment and feedback in the workplace. She has over 140 publications
including peer-review journal articles, book chapters and books. Her research
has shed light on social, relational and cultural influences on learning to
promote student success. Rola is Deputy Editor of the journal Medical
Education, on the editorial board of Teaching in Higher Education and is lead
editor of an edited book Assessment for Inclusion in Higher Education:
Promoting Equity and Social Justice (Routledge; due for publication 2023).

Research Groups
Research for Educational Impact (REDI) @DeakinREDI

Co-lead of the REDI Education, Policy and Governance Theme

International Association of Video-Reflexive Ethnographers
@VREthnography