Experience

Edith Cowan University

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Lecturer

  • Oct 2021 - Present

• Academic Tutor and Lecturer

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  In these roles, I facilitate weekly tutorials, which requires the development of a variety of activities to support student learning effectively. This includes the development of quizzes and games, discussion questions and group work, screenings and close readings that are tailored to the needs of different learning styles. These tutorials are primarily discussion-based, and require the development of appropriate discussion questions, and facilitation of respectful discussion. These tutorials are delivered face-to-face, online, synchronously and asynchronously. They have also been delivered to smaller tutorial-sized classes, as well as to larger workshop-sized groups. These tutorials have occurred in first-year, second-year, third-year and Masters-level courses. As part of this role I have also been responsible for marking student assessments, providing feedback to course coordinators about the effectiveness of the course and its materials, and providing pastoral care to students in my classes. I have received consistently positive student feedback across these roles and courses.In this role, I developed and delivered weekly lecture content for first-year, second-year, third-year, and Masters-level courses. This role requires effective research and communication skills, as well as the ability to organise complex concepts according to the needs of diverse student cohorts.



Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies

• Editorial Associate

  • Aug 2016 - Present

  In this role, I am responsible for database management, allocating articles to managing editors for review, compiling issues to be sent to the publisher, and publicising the journal via social media. This role also includes liaising with the journal’s editors and reviewers, guest editors, authors and publishers, ensuring both a clarity of communication, as well as the meeting of the journal’s publication deadlines. In this role, I am responsible for database management, allocating articles to managing editors for review, compiling issues to be sent to the publisher, and publicising the journal via social media. This role also includes liaising with the journal’s editors and reviewers, guest editors, authors and publishers, ensuring both a clarity of communication, as well as the meeting of the journal’s publication deadlines.



Jessica Taylor Editing

• Freelance Editor

  • Mar 2016 - Present

  In this role, I format and edit submissions for academic publications. These publications include articles, book chapters, and full-length monographs. This role requires effective time management skills, a keen eye for detail and clear written communication skills. In this role, I format and edit submissions for academic publications. These publications include articles, book chapters, and full-length monographs. This role requires effective time management skills, a keen eye for detail and clear written communication skills.



The University of Western Australia

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Unit Coordinator

  • Feb 2021 - Jun 2021

  In this roles, I was responsible for reviewing and innovating the curriculum of an established unit, based on teaching and learning best practice, student results and student feedback from previous semesters. This included redesigning assessments, revising course content and developing new modules and teaching materials. This role also included sourcing and liaising with guest lecturers, managing the online learning environment, providing pastoral care for individual students, and reporting on student grades. This role required me to manage the shift between online and face-to-face learning for the unit managing synchronous, asynchronous and hybrid modes of teaching and learning. This unit was a large first-year unit.

• Academic Tutor and Lecturer

  • Jan 2016 - Jun 2021

  In these role, I developed and delivered weekly lecture content for first-year, third-year and Honours-level courses. This role required effective research and communication skills, as well as the ability to organise complex concepts according to the needs of diverse student cohorts.In this role, I facilitated weekly tutorials, which required the development of a variety of activities to support student learning effectively. This includes the development of quizzes and games, discussion questions and group work, screenings and close readings that are tailored to the needs of different learning styles. These tutorials are primarily discussion-based, and require the development of appropriate discussion questions, and facilitation of respectful discussion. These tutorials have been delivered face-to-face, online, synchronously and asynchronously. They have also been delivered to smaller tutorial-sized classes, as well as to larger workshop-sized groups. These tutorials have occurred in first-year, third-year and Honours-level courses. As part of this role I have also been responsible for marking student assessments, providing feedback to course coordinators about the effectiveness of the course and its materials, and providing pastoral care to students in my classes. I have received consistently positive student feedback across these roles and courses.

• Unit Coordinator

  • Feb 2019 - Nov 2019

  In this role, I was responsible for reviewing and innovating the curriculum of established units, based on teaching and learning best practice, student results and student feedback from previous semesters. This included redesigning assessments, revising course content and developing new modules and teaching materials. This role also included sourcing and liaising with guest lecturers, managing the online learning environment, providing pastoral care for individual students, and reporting on student grades. These courses included a large first year unit and a smaller third-year unit.



McCusker Centre for Citizenship UWA

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Academic Coordinator

  • Jul 2019 - Dec 2020

  In this role, I coordinated the global exchange program with key responsibilities including developing and evaluating academic programs for incoming and outgoing exchange students, building relationships with new exchange partners, and developing new materials to effectively support student placements, based on issues identified during the program evaluation process. I also coordinated the pilot mentoring program, with key responsibilities including evaluating student applications and matching to appropriate community mentors, supporting students and mentors through regular contact, event planning, marking and providing feedback on submitted work, evaluating the program’s effectiveness, and developing recommendations for future development. I also managed the flagship internships program during a period of significant expansion, with key responsibilities including formalising replacement assessment protocols and processes, developing and formalising course coordination timelines, and assuming responsibility for the development of an online module to support the program’s pedagogical aims. During this period, teaching occurred in both face-to-face and online learning environments, both synchronously and asynchronously. I was also responsible for marking student work, maintaining the online environment, and supervising the research project of a third-year student.



The Centre for Transformative Work Design (Curtin University)

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2018 - Oct 2019

  This role occurred within ARC Laureate Fellow Professor Sharon Parker’s Women in Research Project, and responsibilities included editing interviews into podcasts, condensing hour-long interviews into 5-minute introductory videos, and compiling thematic videos based on answers from multiple interviewees. I worked with the larger website team to ensure that the videos and podcasts align with the wider project’s goals, and cohere with the website’s needs. I used the programs “Audacity” and “Premiere Pro CC” to create these podcasts and videos, and YouTube Studio to finalise their closed captioning.