Boards, Committees and Advisory roles: Ministerial appointee to the Board of Teacher Registration 2001-2006; Ministerial appointee to the Board of Teaching Australia 2007-2009; Ministerial appointee to the Ministerial Advisory Committee for Education Renewal 2002-2005; Ministerial appointee to the Council of the Barrier Reef Institute of TAFE 2003-2006. Office of Higher Education nominee to the QLD Studies Authority Languages Working Party 2009; Office of Higher Education nominee to the Flying Start Reference Group 2010; Chair, Australian Association for Research in Education, Doctoral Thesis Prize Committee 1999-2003.
Executive roles: Executive member of the Australian Association for Research in Education 2004-2010 as Managing Editor of the Association’s research journal, The Australian Educational Researcher; International member of the National Council of Teachers of English, History of the Council Assembly, NCTE Urbana, Illinois 2001-2004.
International experience: Awarded a Visiting International Fellowship to teach Australian Literature in the English Department, Ball State University, Indiana, USA Spring Semester 2000; worked with Sheridan Blau, University of California at Santa Barbara on the Santa Barbara Literature Project 1993 and with Judith Green on discourse analysis at UCSB 1994.
This information has been contributed by Emeritus Professor Annette Patterson.