Re-imagining and reconstituting training for rural general practice in changing landscapes (2020-Current)
A Queensland Rural Medical Education Research Grant
- Learning what changes to practice have arisen through the recent pandemic;
- Identifying which new capacities are required; and
- Identifying and appraising existing and new workplace training strategies that can be adopted within these rural practice to sustain meaningful learning through practice.
Employee-directed innovations: Goals and practices for Singapore SMEs (2020-Current)
- The first phase of a larger research study that seeks to understand further how EDIs can be initiated, enacted and sustained in Singaporean SMEs
- Comprising a retrospective evaluation of private sector SMEs in which innovations have occurred
- Understanding the ways in which these innovations were driven by employees, and what workplace practices and kinds of employee engagement can enhance their contributions
Preparing post-secondary education institution (PSEI) learners for changing working lives (2020-Current)
- A Singapore-based project
- Identifying and evaluating the means to develop adaptable occupational skills in work-based learning provisions to meet future skills requirements
Practices and policies for sustaining employability through work-life learning (2019-Current)
- A project funded by Australian Research Council
- Understanding workers’ learning through and across their working life, and how it can be supported through their work and educational provisions
- Generate evidence-based policies and informed practices supporting work-life learning arrangements promoting Australian workers’ employability
Aligning CET students needs Polytechnic provisions (2018-Current)
Key goals for informing policy and practice in PSEIs within SkillsFuture Singapore’s adopted approach about:
- what comprises accessible and effective CET provisions for working-age Singaporeans;
- what comprises effective teaching for working-age Singaporeans; and
- how these Singaporeans might come to engage effectively in CET provisions and teaching.
Standing and status of vocational education and the occupation it serves (2017-2018)
- A Queensland study – more details can be found here
- Enhancing the image of TVET – more details can be found here
- Approaches to enhancing the status of vocational education – more details can be found here
Augmenting higher education students post-practicum experiences
The potential outcomes for augmenting students’ learning here can include:
- understanding more fully the requirements of the occupation in practice
- understanding something of the diversity of circumstances and specific situational outcomes that students will need to practice
- making informed judgements about occupational pathways, including specialisms
- developing understandings, practices and values that can be applied to other circumstances where occupational knowledge is enacted
- generating personal practices of students to be active and focused learners.
Vocations and learning 