DrChris Hughes

Associate Professor, Supervisor Development

Researcher Development Academy/Researcher Development

  • Associate Professor, Supervisor Development
    Researcher Development Academy/Researcher Development
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

I am associate professor within the Researcher Development Academy and also a research fellow with the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning. I deliver Deakin's supervisor development program supporting all reserach supervisors and providing quality workshops and training opportunities to further enhance the research culture. As a philosopher I approach conceptual questions concerning research, supervision and pedagogy in such a way to help bring about conceptual clarity and understanding. Relatedly, the genAI context in which we find ourselves operating as researchers and supervisors has brought about a need to think critically about such technology use and the impact it has upon our appreciation of human concepts such as logic, language and meaning. It is to these features that my CRADLE fellowship is concerned and particularly the ways in which supervisors and graduate researchers are navigating this new context.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Associate Professor, Supervisor Development
    Deakin University, Researcher Development

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor
    Deakin University, Researcher Development Academy, Geelong, Australia9 Aug 2024 - present
  • Researcher Development Fellow
    Edge Hill University, Graduate School, United Kingdom1 Mar 2021 - 8 Aug 2024
  • Senior Lecturer
    Edge Hill University, United Kingdom1 Sep 2011 - 1 Mar 2021

DEGREES

  • PhD
    Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom1 Sep 2011 - 1 Jun 2016

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Post Graduate Certificate of Higher Education
    Edge Hill University, United Kingdom1 Sep 2012 - 1 Sep 2014

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Education policy, sociology and philosophy

AREA/FACULTY

  • Research and Innovation

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • Researcher Development Academy

AREAS OF EXPERTISE