Dr Suneeti Rekhari

• PhD: Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology), University of New South Wales, Australia, 2007.
  Research focus: Semiotics, visual language, film studies, race and representation.
• GCHE: Graduate Certificate of Higher Education, Deakin University, Australia, 2011.
  Focus: Digital Learning and Education Technologies
• MA: Master of Arts, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 2002.
• BA: Bachelor of Arts, Sophia College, Mumbai, India, 2000.

Employment History

• 2018: Senior Manager, Learning Enhancement, College of Science Engineering & Health, RMIT University
• 2017–2018: Lead, Curriculum Transformation, Learning & Teaching Services, Navitas.
• 2016–2017: Blended Learning Co-ordinator, College of Health & Biomedicine, Victoria University. 
• 2015–2016: Senior Learning Designer, Monash College, Monash University.
• 2008–2015: Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Education, Institute of Koorie Education, Deakin University.
• 2007–2008: Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wollongong.

Affiliations and professional memberships

• Member, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.
• Member, TELedvisors, Technology Enhanced Learning SIG, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education.

Grants, awards and consultancies

• Award: Programs that Enhance Learning, College of Health & Biomedicine, Victoria University, Innovation in Anatomy and Physiology Teaching, 2017.
• Honourable Mention: ACODE and Pearson Award for Innovation in Technology Enhanced Learning, H5P LTI Integration, 2016.
• Principal Investigator: Evaluation of the More Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Teachers Initiative Project, funded by The Australian Council of Deans of Education, 2012.
• Research Consultant: Evaluation of the Indigenous Education Strategic Initiatives Programme – Away-from-Base for Mixed-Mode Delivery, Victorian Government, 2010.
• Research Consultant: Indigenous specific monitoring and evaluation of Programs and policies to ensure cultural appropriateness and community accessibility, Deakin University, 2008.

• Spies, M., McNeill, M., Rekhari, S. & Woo, K. (2018). [Re]evaluating practice: measuring what is important, to inform improvements to student outcomes. In D. Wache and D. Houston (Eds.), Research and Development in Higher Education: (Re)Valuing Higher Education, 41 (pp 206 - 219). Adelaide, Australia, 2-5 July 2018.
• Rekhari, S. & Sinnayah, P. (2018). H5P and Innovation in Anatomy and Physiology Teaching. In D. Wache and D. Houston (Eds.), Research and Development in Higher Education: (Re)Valuing Higher Education, 41 (pp 191 - 205). Adelaide, Australia, 2-5 July 2018.
• Rekhari, S. & Paul, A. (2017) D2-E2: An Agile, Responsive and Collaborative Approach to Course and Unit Design, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia: Curriculum Transformation. Sydney, Australia, 27-30 June 2017.
• Rekhari, S. & Sinnayah, P. (2017) H5P and the Brave New World of Learning Interactives - A Case Study in First Year Anatomy & Physiology Units, The Technology in Higher Education Agenda: Connecting Minds, Creating the Future. Auckland, New Zealand, 8-10 May 2017.
• Rekhari, S. (2015) The Chasm: Learning Design, Technology and the LMS, Australian Institute of Training and Development Journal, Technology and Learning Issue, July 2015.
• Rekhari, S. (2014) Sugar and Spice: The Golden Age of the Hindi Movie Vamps, 1960s-70s’, in V. Kishore, A. Sarwal and P. Patra (eds.) Bollywood and its Others: Towards New Configurations, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Rekhari, S. (2012) ‘Movement by Coercion: The Displacement of Indigenous Children in Australia’, in R. Ganguly-Scrase and K. Lahiri-Dutt (eds.) International Displacement: Asia Pacific Perspectives, Ashgate.
• Rekhari, S. (2011) ‘Introduction: Aboriginal Histories’, in J. Bennett & R. Beirne (eds.) Making Film and Television Histories, I.B. Tauris, pp 3-4.
• Rekhari, S. (2011) ‘Jedda’, in J. Bennett & R. Beirne (eds.) Making Film and Television Histories, I.B. Tauris, pp 5-11.
• Rekhari, S. (2011) ‘Jaisa Desh, Waisa Vesh?  Explorations on the Representation of Adivasis in popular Hindi Cinema’, Studies in South Asian Film and Media, Vol. 2, no. 2, 2011: pp 107-117.

• ‘Nightclubs, vamps and urban transgressive spaces in Hindi cinema’, in Cinemaspace - Conference on Indian Cinema and The City, Chao Centre for Asian Studies, Rice University, Houston, USA, 3-4 Nov. 2011.
• ‘Exploratory notes on the representations of Adivasis in popular Hindi cinema’, in APSA 2010: Proceedings of the 10th Asia Pacific Sociological Association Conference, Asian Pacific Sociological Association, Sabah, Malaysia, 8-11 Dec. 2010.
• ‘Film, Representation and the Exclusion of Aboriginal Identity: Examples from Australian Cinema’, Refereed Proceedings of TASA/SAANZ Conference, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 3-8 Dec. 2007.