Associate ProfessorTrace Ollis

Associate Professor in Education (Applied Learning)

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education/Research for Educational Impact

  • Associate Professor in Education (Applied Learning)
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education/Research for Educational Impact
  • +61 3 522 71489 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    ABC Melbourne, afternoon show
    ABC, afternoon program, Second chance Learning, I was invited onto the ABC afternoon program with Richelle Hunt to discuss lifelong and adult learning programs with a student Hayden who left school at the beginning of Year 10. This 20 minute program was broadcast nationally and can be accessed here http://www.abc.net.au/.../afternoons/afternoons/10175812.
  • AFFILIATION
    Adult Learning Australia
  • AFFILIATION
    Australian Journal of Adult Learning
  • AFFILIATION
    Neighbourhood Houses Victoria
  • AFFILIATION
    The Australian Association on Environmental Education;
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    Friends of the Earth;
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    National Tertiary Education Union;
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Excellence in Teaching Award
    Deakin University, Faculty of Arts and Education, Excellence in Teaching Award 2018
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Deakin Univesity Vice Chancellors Award for Partnerships 2015
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Victoria University, Faculty of Arts and Education Deans Award, Outstanding PhD Research.
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Victoria University, Vice Chancellors Award for Outstanding Student Leadership 2008.
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Kangan Institute, School of Health and Community Services, Excellence in Teaching AWARD 2006.
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Nominated for the Victorian Womens Honour Roll for teaching work in migrant and refugee communities in the northern region of Melbourne, 2006
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Refereed Conference Papers
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Ollis, T, Harrison, U & Ryan, C. (2021) Every day you learn something: Adult learning, discovery and transformation in Australian Neighbourhood Houses. Adult Education in Global Times. 6-9 June, University of British Columbia. Vancouver.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Ollis, T, Harrison, U & Ryan, C (2019) Social spaces, relationships and shared learning in neighbourhood houses: keep learning and move with the world. 4thInternational ProPEL Conference2019:Provocations and Possibilities9 11 December 2019:: Sydney, Australia Program, University of Technology.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Ryan, C & Ollis T (2019) Police, their professional practice and learning: telling and doing it like it was and still is 4th International PROPEL Conference2019:Provocations and Possibilities 9 11 December 2019:: Sydney, Australia Program, University of Technology.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Ollis, T (2019). Practice, habitus, incidental and informal adult learning in the Coal Seam Gas protests in Australia. International conference on Researching Work and Learning 11 (RW11) Giessen, Germany, 23-26th of July.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Ollis, T & Ryan, C (2019) Skilling a workforce - community development practices in Neighborhood Houses in Australia, International conference on Researching Work and Learning 11 (RW11), Germany, 23-26th of July.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Ursula Harrison, Dr Cheryl Ryan Dr Jennifer Angwin, Dr Tracey Ollis, Professor Karen Starr (2017). Neighbourhood Houses: lifelong learning, community, connections and later life learners Paper presentation to Getting of wisdom, learning in later life conference, 16th February 2017, Wellington, NZ
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Ollis (2015). Public Pedagogies, activism, social movements and social justice education: an embodied practice. Public Pedagogies conference, Victoria University
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Ollis, Tracey & Hamel-Green, M (2014). Practical Knowledge, Social Justice Education and Adult Learning in the Coal Seam Gas Protests in Victoria, Australia. ACE 2014, Asia Conference on Education, Rhiga Royal Hotel, Osaka, Japan, October 28 November 2, 2014.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Ollis, T. (2012 ). Paulo Freire, Pedagogy, Reflection and action, Paulo Freire The Global Legacy, A major international conference, Hamilton, New Zealand, November 26-28, 2012.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Ollis, T., Williams, J., Townsend, R., Harris, A. & Jorquera, J. (2014,). Reflections on building a popular education network in Australia. Paulo Freire The Global Legacy, A major international conference, Hamilton, New Zealand, November 26-28, 2012.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Ollis, T (2011). Social learning and the emotion of protest: embodiment, emotions and activism. Researching Learning and Work, 7th International conference, 4-7th of December, China Normal University, Shanghai.