Keynote speaker

Sally Kift is a Professor of Law at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia (QUT). Over 2006-2007, she was seconded to the QUT Chancellery as the institution’s Director, First Year Experience Project. From 2001-2006, she served as Assistant Dean, Teaching & Learning in the QUT Faculty of Law. Her research interests include criminal law, legal education, first year experience, sessional staff development, and the teaching, learning and assessment of graduate attributes/ transferable skills.

Sally was a recipient of a National Teaching Award in 2003, winning the Australian Award for University Teaching (AAUT) in Economics, Business, Law and Related Studies. Amongst other things, that award acknowledged her work in first year curriculum design, support for sessional teaching staff, enhancing the student experience and the development of graduate attributes in core curriculum. In 2006, Sally was awarded one of three inaugural national Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Senior Fellowships for a project entitled, Articulating a transition pedagogy to scaffold and to enhance the first year learning experience in Australian higher education. In 2007, a Project Team that she led was awarded a further ALTC (Carrick Institute) National Teaching Award for the QUT Law Faculty’s Assessment and Feedback practices.