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Dr Elizabeth Hartnell-Young

Position:

Director, ACER Institute

Division:

ACER Institute

Location:

Melbourne

Qualifications:

Quals: BA, Dip Ed, M Ed St (Monash); MA – Urban Research and Policy (Swinburne); PhD (Melbourne)

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Elizabeth is Director of the ACER Institute, which offers evidence-based professional learning opportunities building on the research strengths of ACER. The Institute's focus is particularly on developing the capacity of teachers and leaders to collect, understand and use evidence to drive improvements in student learning, effective practices and organisational performance. ACER Institute offers a range of programs and services including workshops, graduate programs and conferences as well as customised programs for systems and institutions.

Elizabeth has experience in school education as a teacher, professional development coordinator and principal in large secondary schools, as well as higher education experience in Australia and the UK. Her most recent appointment was as Director, Research and Evaluation, in the state government Department of Education and Early Childhood Development in Victoria.

From 2006 to 2008, she was an international research fellow in the multidisciplinary Learning Sciences Research Institute at The University of Nottingham, working closely with people in schools, further education colleges and higher education institutions. Her particular interests were mobile technologies for learning, new learning spaces and large scale digital systems such as eportfolios, which led to projects working with Becta, the Learning and Skills Network, Nokia, Microsoft and other companies.

While in the UK she was selected as an expert consultant for the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the higher education sector, and was a finalist in the UK’s national Handheld Learning awards in 2008.

Her PhD research, from 2000-2003, considered the use of information and communication technologies in Victorian schools, and identified emerging communities of practice that supported new models of teaching and learning. Subsequently she was a research fellow in information systems and education at The University of Melbourne, and research manager of national projects for the Australian Government, including the National Quality Schooling Framework.

For many years Elizabeth managed her own company, Results Unlimited, where she developed and facilitated customised leadership programs for aspirant school leaders for the Australian Principals Centre and the Department of Education, Victoria, later acquired by ACER. She has coached and mentored leaders in several industries.

In 2007, she won a Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation small grant with Dr Yukari Makino, Kansai University–Developing a model for collaboration: approaches to teacher education and technology in the UK and Japan–and travelled to Japan to work on lectures and papers.

Currently she is Abstracts Editor and program committee executive member for the Association of Learning Technologies (UK) Conference.

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