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Associate Professor

Lauren Hansen

Director, Graduate Employability

Graduate Employment/Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor Graduate Employment

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  • Director, Graduate Employability
    Graduate Employment/Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor Graduate Employment
  • +61 3 924 45754 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

A strategic, creative, and effective teaching and learning leader with a strong track record of successfully implementing evidence-based capability-building programs. Skilled and influential communicator with established and generative partnerships across Deakin and the wider sector. Solid researcher with extensive experience mentoring others in developing scholarly practice and scholarship.

Member:
Social Work Innovation, Transformation and Collaboration in Health (SWITCH) Research Group
School of Primary and Allied Health Care, Monash University

Workplace Wellbeing, Innovation and Performance Research Group
School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Director, Graduate Employability
    Deakin University, Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor Graduate Employment

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Senior Lecturer - Learning Futures
    Deakin University, Burwood, Deakin Learning Futures, Australia1 Nov 2021 - 19 Jan 2024
  • Lecturer, Career Education
    Deakin University, Burwood, Graduate Employment Division, Burwood, Australia1 Apr 2019 - 31 Oct 2021
  • Lecturer
    Monash University, Social Work, Caulfield East, Australia4 Jun 2018 - 29 Mar 2019
  • Teaching Associate
    Monash University, Social Work, Melbourne, Australia1 Mar 2016 - 1 Jun 2018

DEGREES

  • Graduate Certificate of Higher Education Teaching and Learning
    Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Monash University
  • Master of Social Work
    Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  • Graduate Diploma of Mental Health Sciences
    Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  • Bachelor of Science (Pysch)
    University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Senior Fellow
    Higher Education Academy, York, United Kingdom
  • Advanced Coach Training Program
    International Coach Academy

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Higher education
  • Workplace wellbeing and quality of working life
  • Work integrated learning (incl. internships)

AREA/FACULTY

  • Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • Graduate Employment