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Carol-Anne Croker Joins The Class Of Stanford Who's Who
Stanford Who's Who welcomes Carol-Anne Croker to the ranks of leading professionals as a result of her exceptional effort in the Education Industry.
BLAIRGOWRIE, VIC, AUSTRALIA, October 26, 2011 /Stanford Who's Who/ -- Stanford Who's Who welcomes Carol-Anne Croker to the ranks of leading professionals as a result of her exceptional effort in the Education Industry. As a Researcher and PhD Candidate at the Swinburne University of Technology, as well as throughout her brilliant professional career, Carol-Anne has routinely demonstrated the vision, dedication and diligence necessary to be considered among the best.
Carol-Anne began working at the Swinburne University of Technology as an RA to Associate Professor Sharon Kemp in Business Management and Christopher Galloway, Discipline Leader of Public Relations. Together they have completed a commissioned research report into Reputation Risk management for the VMIA, and are currently researching case studies on reputation risk and lack of management strategies for 'Black Swan' events. Carol-Anne is currently seeking freelance research contracts looking at areas of systemic gender discrimination within Institution management and employment practices in the Melbourne area.
Carol-Anne is a writer and editor who has chaired sessions at the Melbourne Writer's Festival on such diverse areas as Indigenous history, the Poetry of Les Murray, Children's literature, and Politics in South East Asia. She served as the Arts Reviewer for the ABC radio 774 Melbourne Sunday Arts Program with Clive Stark and now writes online theatre reviews for numerous electronic theatre journals. In addition, Carol-Anne performed on the stages of Melbourne and Adelaide, and lectured in professional acting, theatre history and media production.
Ms. Croker now serves as National Policy Research Officer at the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations. She is currently employed as part of the Research Workforce Strategy Action Group of the Australian Government's Department on Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, preparing a report into the training of higher degree by research students. She is investigating the possible labor market supply of skilled graduates for Australia's predicted skills shortage between now and 2020, with particular focus on the greying academic workforce and the disconnect between qualified, underemployed and unemployed highly qualified graduates and labor market predictions.
During her collegiate career, Carol-Anne earned a Master of Arts degree, Bachelor of Education degree, Graduate Diploma in Media, Graduate Diploma in Education, B.A. Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing, and a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment. She is a member of the Australian Association of Writing Programs, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Copyright Agency Limited, Council of Postgraduate Associations, Student Consultative Network at Swinburne University, National Tertiary Education Union, Australian Qualitative Research Association, and the National Association for Visual Arts.
Last week, Carol-Anne Croker attended the 9th International Conference on the Book at the University in Toronto as one of four selected Graduate Scholars. Despite not being the only Australian PhD candidate selected, she was the only Internationally-based recipient.
Carol-Anne presented a session with the provocatively titled "Those Who Can Do, and those Who Can't Teach," which in itself drew some commentary amongst Conference delegates. As a PhD candidate and researcher, Carol-Anne contended that there is a place in the University of the 21st century for practitioner academics and to see writers working in Universities as some form of second-rate practitioner or third-rate academic is simplistic and insulting at best. Many of Australia's contemporary writers have found a home inside Universities where they are able to share not only the passion for their craft, actually teach with strong educational pedagogy the craft of writing across many genres, whilst still imbuing students with a love of reading and writing. It is possible, Carol-Anne contended to wear all three hats, but this concept is somewhat threatening for older academics who feel insecure in the modern Academy where the staff are predominantly 'digital immigrants' educating 'digital native' students.
From this Conference, Carol-Anne is currently collaborating with academics from four continents on two text books, the first (working title), The author is not dead, nor is the book: changing media for knowledge dissemination in the 21st Century . The second monograph, E-publishing and the democratization of publication is investigating the impact of globalization on the publishing industry and the fiscal imperatives for small independent and non-multinational publishing companies.
This week she is also a delegate and speaker at the 2nd Annual Dual Sector Conference at the Hilton on the Park in Melbourne, Australia. Carol-Anne is speaking on the need for both pathways for non-traditional University entrants from Technical and Further Education, but the need for vigilance that such pathways do not destroy the TAFE sector in the rush to accrue a larger mass student market for the University sector. http://www.informa.com.au/conferences/education/dual-sector-forum.
Later in November, Carol-Anne has also been invited to speak at the Inaugural Disability Employment Summit at the Rendezvous Hotel, Melbourne, where she is calling upon employers to look at ability not disability in these times of labor market shortage and ageing populations in the Western nations. http://www.informa.com.au/conferences/human-resources-skilling/traini ... y%20Summit
The last week of November Carol-Anne also presents at the 16th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, at Byron Bay, NSW subtitled Ethical concerns and their implications in literature and writing. Carol-Anne is speaking as academic/scholar of the ethical relationship between supervisor and student, as well as the difference between moral issues and ethical issues in Higher Education Creative Writing courses, on Day three of the Conference. http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/sass/writingworldsAAWP2011/program.html
December remains busy with presentations at the Annual General Meeting of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations on the findings and launch of the Research Report into Career aspirations and barriers for Higher Degree by Research Students into Academic work, commissioned by the Australian Government's Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
Supposedly Carol-Anne's Christmas break is to complete the final draft of her novel, Walking with Madness , and a holiday to the North Island of New Zealand, coincidentally researching best practice in Indigenous Higher Education participation and Government policy.
Carol-Anne's website will be live by the first week of November and accessible through Who's Who, Linked In, http://www.carol_annecroker.com.au
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