Keith Trigwell
Professor and Director
ph: (02) 9351 4572
fax: (02) 9351 4331
email: keith.trigwell@sydney.edu.au
Keith Trigwell became Director of ITL and Professor of Higher Education in October 2006. He was previously Director of the Oxford Centre for Excellence in Preparing for Academic Practice, a Fellow of Kellogg College, and Reader in Higher Education at the University of Oxford.
He has a PhD in chemistry, university teaching experience in chemistry and education, has had seven joint ARC research grants and has published over 100 journal articles, conference papers and books, including Understanding Learning and Teaching: The experience in higher education, which is a summary of 10 years of learning/teaching research. His research work in Oxford and Sydney focuses on investigations into qualitative differences in university teaching and in the students’ learning experience, on teaching-research relations, the scholarship of teaching and emotions in teaching.
He is a Past President of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and in 2005 was appointed a co-ordinating editor of the international journal Higher Education.