Franziska Trede

Franziska Trede is an Associate Professor in Higher Education and Professional Practice in the Institute for Interactive Media and Learning (IML) at UTS where she leads the Teaching and Curriculum Team and coordinates the IML Research Program and the UTS wide Course Directors Network and the Professional Education and Practice Network. Franziska is the President of the Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Charles Sturt University.

Her research program is driven by the question; why do people think and act the way they do? Her research interests include professional learning, professional identity development, agency, educating the deliberate professional, employability and the educational partnership between university and workplaces. She has conducted numerous funded research projects in the area of workplace learning, leadership and enhancing learning with technology.

Franziska has published 1 co-authored book and 7 co-edited books and over 100 peer-reviewed book chapters and journal papers. She serves on 4 editorial boards: Studies in Continuing Education, Active Learning in Higher Education, International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning and the Journal of Professions and Professionalism.

Franziska has supervised PhD candidates to completion who have won the University Medal and Faculty Prizes.

She has a track record in producing multi-media resources from her research program. She has produced self-paced online modules for interprofessional and academic leadership and a self-paced module for practitioners who supervise university students in their workplace. She has also developed trigger films of workplace learning scenes accompanied by teacher guides to build capacity for professional agency in students, academics and workplace supervisors.

Franziska has presented her work on local, national and international platforms and was invited speaker, visiting professor and workshop facilitator in higher education institutions in Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and UK.

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS

• Associate Professor
  University of Technology Sydney, Institute for Interactive Media, Ultimo, Australia

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

• Director
  Charles Sturt University, Education For Practice Institute, Bathurst, Australia

• Post Doctoral Position
  Charles Sturt University, Education for Practice Institute, Bathurst, Australia

• Lecturer
  University of New South Wales, Australia, School of Medical Education, Randwick, NSW, 2031, Australia

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

• Diversity Health Coordinator
  Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia

• Senior Physiotherapist
  Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia

DEGREES

• PhD, Health Services
  University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

• Masters Degree, Public Health Education and Promotion
  UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia

• Diploma, Feldenkrais
  La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia