Dr Emma Price

Position: Scholarly Teaching Fellow, Learning and Teaching
Study area: Tertiary Education
Location: Mt Helen Campus
Phone: 5327 6645
Email: e.price@federation.edu.au
ORCID ID: 0009-0003-9627-8401

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy – Deakin University – 2011
  • Graduate Diploma in Information Management – RMIT – 2017
  • Graduate Certificate in Higher Education – Deakin University – 2015
  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours) – Deakin University – 2001

Teaching

Courses

  • Graduate Certificate in Education (Tertiary Education)

Units

  • Tertiary Teaching and Learning (EDGCT5007)
  • Professional Practice in Tertiary Teaching (EDGCT5008)
  • Contemporary Issues in Tertiary Teaching (EDGCT5009)
  • Tertiary Teacher as Researcher and Practitioner (EDGCT5010)

Biography

Emma is a Scholarly Teaching Fellow specialising in tertiary education and professional development in learning and teaching. This role includes the coordination of units within the Graduate Certificate in Education (Tertiary Education) course, focusing on curriculum development, delivery, and evaluation. Emma also coordinates and delivers professional development workshops, webinars, and resources for academic staff.

Prior to this role, Emma worked as a Learning Designer at Federation University, contributing to the development and implementation of online practices and resources to enhance learning and teaching within the Federation Business School. Earlier roles include serving as a Learning Skills Adviser at Monash University for two years, where she developed and evaluated discipline-specific integrated learning programs, and as an Early Career Development Fellow at Deakin University, where she coordinated media and film units, led teaching teams, and conducted research on women in sport broadcasting, and politics in reality TV.

Areas of expertise

Emma’s journey in tertiary education has been marked by a commitment to improving learning experiences and outcomes. She has played a central role in various academic and professional development initiatives, with a goal to build academic digital literacies and foster an inclusive and effective educational environment.

She specialises in critical examination of higher education pedagogy paradigms, with particular interest in navigating and implementing changes within synchronous and asynchronous learning environments and its impact for inclusive and equitable learning and teaching.

This is extended to sharing best practices through Communities of Practice (CoPs) and producing podcasts to foster a collaborative and informed academic community through the exchange of knowledge and strategies that drive learning and teaching quality.

Research interests

  • Effective design and engagement in synchronous/asynchronous learning environments
  • Equity in higher education learning and teaching
  • Innovative approaches and barriers to academic professional development

Publications

Book chapters

Price, E. (2012). The Illusory Everyday: Constructing Australian narratives in ‘reality TV’. In C. Elder & K. Moore (Eds.), New Visions New Voices: Challenging Australian Identities and Legacies (pp.152-166). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Refereed journal articles

De Aizpurua, M., Price, E., & Tucker, K. (2018). Give Gaming a Go! Enhancing learning through gamification. Australian Law Librarian, 26(2), 92-100.

Price, E., Nethery, A., & Coffey, B. (2015). An Early Career Academic Network: What worked and what didn’t. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 39(5), 680-698.

Price, E. (2014). Empathy or Entitlement? Humanizing and othering discourses in Go Back To Where You Came From. Journal of Popular Television, 2(1), 97-110.

Price, E., & Nethery, A. (2012). Truth-telling at the border: An audience appraisal of Border Security. Media International Australia, 142 (February), 148-156.

Price, E. (2010). Reinforcing the myth: Constructing Australian identity in ‘reality TV’. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 24(3), 451-459.

Refereed conference proceedings

Winchester, T., Price, E. & Groessler, A. (2023). Attention under pressure: The impact of technology-enhanced learning environment on teacher presence. ICICTE, 128-141.

Associations

  • Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia
  • Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
  • International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • Australasian Academic Integrity Network