Margaret Jollands

Professor Margaret Jollands

Deputy Dean, Learning and Teaching Engineering

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

I am a Professor and Deputy Dean Learning & Teaching in the School of Engineering. Prior to joining RMIT I worked for Dow Chemical in Germany as a research engineer. Over the last 15 years my research has focused on teaching and learning, with a special interest in employability of graduates and how to develop staff teaching capability. 

Non-academic positions

  • Research Engineer
  • Dow Chemical Deutschland
  • Foam products
  • Rheinmuenster, Germany
  • 1988 – 1994

Supervisor projects

  • Critical Thinking: An Investigation into How It Is Defined, Taught and Assessed in a Sample of Australian Undergraduate Engineering Education
  • 16 Jun 2021
  • Employability Learning of Engineering Students: Student Perspective on Employability as a Concept, Influences on Employability Learning and Work Placement Experience
  • 1 Oct 2018

Teaching interests

Casual staff teacher training

 

Research interests

  • Graduate employability 
  • Developing staff teaching capability
  • Fostering cultural change in engineering departments
  • Diversity in engineering
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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