Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career
Section: Overview
Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • 21st century teaching & learning
  • Education & teaching
  • Curriculum & pedagogy
  • Educational leadership & mentoring
  • Narrative Inquiry

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About Trudy Ambler

Trudy Ambler is an Honorary academic in the First Year College at Victoria University. Prior to this Trudy worked in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University where she held the positions of Associate Dean (Quality and Standards), Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) and Director of Learning and Teaching. In 2015 with her colleagues, Associate Professor Marina Harvey and Dr Jayde Cahir she was awarded an Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT), National Citation for Programs that Enhance Student Learning.  Before commencing her work in the University sector Trudy worked extensively in the school system in the United Kingdom, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Australia, as a teacher, administrator and education advisor.

Trudy is an accreditation panellist for Initial Teacher Education with the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) and she is on the register of TEQSA experts for Education. Her research and publications explore issues related to teacher and student learning, specifically how ‘experiences’ of learning enable us to better understand the world.

This research agenda has taken different forms and includes:

  • teacher learning in the school and university sectors
  • teacher knowledge
  • students’ learning
  • peer learning
  • first-year curriculum
  • mentoring
  • narrative inquiry
  • autobiographical inquiry
  • practitioner inquiry
  • research ethics in learning and teaching
  • learning spaces and places.

Qualifications

  • PhD
  • MEd
  • BEd(HONS)

Key publications

Year Citation
2014 Ambler, T., Breyer, Y., & Young, S. (140101). Piloting Online Submission and Online Assessment with GradeMark (pp. 125-144). IGI GLOBAL.

doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4470-0.ch004

Year Citation
2015 Saunders, B., Mewes, C., Ambler, T., & Vlachopoulos, P. (150101). PEER REVIEW PROCESS: ONLINE (EXTERNAL) UNITS (ILEARN) 2014 In GomezChova, L. ;. (Ed.), Paper presented at EDULEARN15: 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION AND NEW LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES (pp. 2634-2634). IATED-INT ASSOC TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION A& DEVELOPMENT.

Year Citation
2021 Ambler, T., Solomonides, I., & Smallridge, A. (210901). Students experiences of a first-year block model curriculum in higher education. Curriculum Journal, 32(3), (533-558).

doi: 10.1002/curj.103
2020 Ambler, T., Solomonides, I., Smallridge, A., McCluskey, T., & Hannah, L. (201019). Professional learning for academics teaching first-year undergraduate students. Professional Development in Education, 46(5), (845-857).

doi: 10.1080/19415257.2019.1647272
2019 Barrow, L., Ambler, T., Bailey, M., & McKinnon, A. (190101). Incarcerated Students, the Technological Divide and the Challenges in Tertiary Education Delivery. International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities in Education, 4(1), (17-34).

doi: 10.4018/ijbide.2019010102
2017 Harvey, M., Ambler, T., & Cahir, J. (170101). Spectrum Approach to Mentoring: an evidence-based approach to mentoring for academics working in higher education. TEACHER DEVELOPMENT, 21(1), (160-174).

doi: 10.1080/13664530.2016.1210537
2016 Ambler, T., Harvey, M., & Cahir, J. (161101). University academics' experiences of learning through mentoring. AUSTRALIAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER, 43(5), (609-627).

doi: 10.1007/s13384-016-0214-7
2016 McCormack, C., Ambler, T., Martin, B., Waite, K., & Wilson, A. (160901). Narrative-based evaluation demonstrates the value of a higher education professional learning network. STUDIES IN EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION, 50 (79-87).

doi: 10.1016/j.stueduc.2016.07.003
2016 Ambler, T. B. (160101). The day-to-day work of primary school teachers: a source of professional learning. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATION, 42(2), (276-289).

doi: 10.1080/19415257.2014.998343
2014 Parsell, M., Ambler, T., & Jacenyik-Trawoger, C. (140201). Ethics in higher education research. STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 39(1), (166-179).

doi: 10.1080/03075079.2011.647766

Research funding for the past 5 years

Funding details for this researcher are currently unavailable.

Supervision of research students at VU

Not available to supervise research students

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Awards

Year Award
2015

National Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. - Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT),
2013

Best Scholarly Paper - Higher Education Research Development Society of Australia (HERDSA)
2012

Vice Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. - Macquarie University