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Assoc. Prof. Alison Owens Name: Assoc. Prof. Alison Owens
Academic Lead, Scholarship and Professional Learning
Phone
+612 9465 9157
Organisational Area
Centre for Education and Innovation
Department
Scholarships & Professional Learning
Location
North Sydney
Mount Royal(Bldg.600 - 25A Barker Road, Strathfield NSW 2135)-Level 1-Room1.21
Publications

Books

 

  1. Brien, D, Batty, C, Ellison, L & Owens, A (eds) (2019 in press) The Doctoral Experience: Student Stories from the Creative Arts and the HumanitiesPallgrave Macmillan.
  2. Brien, DL, Owens, A & Carey, J (eds) (2015) In Our Own Words: The stories of Australia's International Students, Tablelands Press: Armidale

 

Book Chapters

  1. Owens, A (2019 in press) Issues of Truth and doctoral research. in Brien, D Batty, C Ellison, L & Owens, A (eds) The Doctoral Experience: Student Stories from the Creative Arts and the Humanities, Pallgrave Macmillan.
  2. Owens, A (2016) Articulating the fact behind the fiction: narrative inquiry as a research methodology for historical novelists. in Harreveld et. Al. Constructing Methodology for Qualitative Research: Researching Education and Social Practices, Palgrave Macmillan.
  3. Owens, A & Wex, I (2011) What are the benefits of teaching Australian law to non-law students from non-English speaking backgrounds and cultures? in Legal Theory, Practice and Education, Frenkel, D (ed) ATINER, Athens

 

Refereed journal articles

  1. Owens, A, Brien, DL, McAllister, M, Batty, C, Carson, S, Tuckett, A and Walsh, K (2019 in review) 'Researching, implementing and evaluating industry focused and cross-disciplinary doctoral training' , International Journal of Doctoral Studies.
  2. Loomes, S, Owens, A & McCarthy G (2019 in press) Patterns of recruitment of academic leaders to Australian universities and implications for the future of higher education. Australian Universities Review.
  3. Owens, A, Ellison, E, Brien, D and Batty, C (2019 in review) Agency and Ownership in Doctoral Learning: Student Reflections on the Transformative Research Journey, HERD
  4. Batty, C, Brien, D, Ellison, E & Owens, A (2019 in review) Mapping the emotional journey of the doctoral &lsquohero&rsquo: challenges faced and breakthroughs made by creative arts and humanities students, Journal of Arts and Humanities.
  5. Brien, DL, Owens, A, Pittaway, G & Waters, I (2017) Exegetical essentials: a framing structure and template for a comprehensive exegesis in the creative arts, TEXT, 44, Available: http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue44/Brien_et_al.pdf
  6. Owens, A & Brien, DL (2014) Writing Themselves: Using creative writing to facilitate student accounts of their intercultural experience, New Writing, The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14790726.2014.932815
  7. Pember, E, Owens, A & Yaghi S (2013) Customer Relationship Management at Central Queensland University Metropolitan Campuses: Campus Portal Uses, Users, Issues and Recommendations, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management.
  8. Owens, A (2013) Exploring the benefits of contact centre offshoring: a study of trends and practices for the Australian business sector, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09585192.2013.807861
  9. Chiu, HY & Owens, A (2012) Study of Factors Influencing Childcare Quality in Preschools, Journal of Chia Nan Annual Bulletin-Humanities. V.38 , pp. 264 &ndash 271 , available at: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2iDV83XdAcgb0kzQlJDRWttTkU/edit?usp=sharing
  10. Owens, A (2011) Supporting and evaluating transitional learning for international university students, Australian Universities Review, 53 (1) available at: http://www.aur.org.au/
  11. Owens, A & Hoetzer, H (2011) What are the benefits of teaching Australian law to non-law Non-English background students? Journal of Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference (JALTA), 3 (1&2) available at: http://www.alta.edu.au/JALTA.htm .
  12. Owens, A & Loomes, S (2010) Managing and resourcing a program of social integration initiatives for international university students: what are the benefits? Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, Vol.32, No. 3, pp. 257-290.    
  13. Owens, A (2008) Fitting in in a stand out culture: an examination of the inter-play of collectivist and individualist cultural frameworks in the Australian university classroom, Studies in Learning Evaluation, Innovation and Design, (SLEID) (CQU) Vol. 5, No. 1 pp.70-80.

 

Conference Papers

  1. Brien, D, Batty, C, Ellison, L and Owens, A (2018) Enhancing Research Training through Stories of Resilience: Understanding the Human Dimensions of the Doctoral Journey. Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, 2-6 December, Sydney.
  2. Owens, A, & Brien, D (2018) Writing for Survival: The non-fiction prose of Australian women novelists in the 1930s. The Australian Association of Writing Programs Conference, 28-30 November, 2018, Perth.
  3. Loomes, S, Owens, A and McCarthy, G (2018) Building Leaders: Patterns of recruitment of academic leaders to Australian universities and implications for the future of higher education. Australian Tertiary Education Management Conference, 9-13 September, 2018, Perth.
  4. Daddo, A, Clarkson, G, and Owens, A (2018) Straddling Boundaries: Required professional development and academic identity in the pursuit of excellence in learning and teaching, (poster) HERDSA Conference 2018, Revaluing Australian Higher Education, 2-5 July, 2018, Adelaide.
  5. Batty, C, Brien, D, Ellison, L and Owens, A (2018) The invisible work of the doctorate: Human challenges that candidates face and overcome, Quality in Postgraduate Research, Adelaide, April 17-19, 2018: http://www.qpr.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/QPR_2018_Program.pdf
  6. Brien, DL, McAllister, M, Owens, A and Beckton, D (2016) Robbing from Peter to Pay Paul?: Insights from a study investigating Interdisciplinary Doctoral Research Training Opportunities, Authorised Theft http://www.aawp.org.au/annual-conference/21st-annual-conference Australasian Association of Writing Programs, University of Canberra 28-30 November 2016 (peer-reviewed)
  7. Owens, A (2016) Fictionalising History as a Scholarly Project: reflections on a creative writing PhD, Great Writing Conference, June 18-19, Imperial College, London.
  8. Owens, A (2015) The Guangxi University Capstone: A case study of an Australian-Chinese collaboration in curriculum reform, Australian Association of Research in Education Conference, Fremantle, November 30- December 3, 2015.
  9. Owens, A (2015) I write dead people: the ethical challenges of resurrecting the dead for historical fiction,Australasian Association of Writing Programs Conference, Melbourne November 30-Decemebr 3, 2015.
  10. Chiu, H & Owens, A (2015) Preschool Teachers' Views on Childcare and Education Quality, International Conference for Education, Psychology and Society (ICEPS), Chengdu, China, April 22-24, 2015.
  11. Owens, A (2014) The curious task of fictionalizing the truth: A narrative inquiry for historical fiction, proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Australasian Association for Writing Programs, Minding the gap: Writing across thresholds and fault lines, Wellington, New Zealand, 30 November 2014. Available: http://www.aawp.org.au/minding_the_gap_writing_across_thresholds_and_fault_lines
  12. Owens, A (2014) Going back for bric-a-brac: the power of things in researching for historical fiction writing, Work in Progress Conference: The Life of Things, University of Queensland, 29-30 September, 2014.
  13. Craigie, P & Owens, A (2013) What goes on in Foreign Language Learners' minds? Planning research to explore EFL motivation, EFL anxiety and EFL learning strategies, paper presented at the The Asian Conference on Language Learning, Osaka, April 25-28, 2013
  14. Owens, A & Blasco, M (2012) Internationalisation and Indifference: Exploring domestic student accounts of internationalisation in education, paper presented at the European Association of International Education Conference, Dublin, September 12, 2012
  15. Owens, A & Loomes, S (2012) Trading Places: a case study of a cultural exchange and social integration initiative for international and domestic students, paper presented at Asia Pacific International Education Conference, Mahidol University Bangkok, April 4-6, 201
  16. Owens, A (2011) Can ESOS save international education in Australia?Keynote address, ESOS Conference, Sept 7-9, University of Newcastle.
  17. Owens, A & Wex, I (2011)Examining the career plans and expectations of Indian women graduates of Australian University business programs. paper presented at 1stEnabling Access to Higher Education Conference, University of South Australia, Adelaide Dec 5-7, 2011.
  18. Owens, A (2010)Supporting and evaluating transitional learning for international university students, paper presented at Australian International Education Conference, Sydney, October 12-15, 2010.
  19. Owens, A & Loomes, S (2010) Intervention for Retention: how can academic and social support help universities keep their students? paper presented at Tertiary Education Management Conference Melbourne October 3-6, 2010.
  20. Owens, A & Loomes, S (2010) Intervention for Retention: how can academic and social support help universities keep their students? paper presented at Australian International Education Conference, Sydney, October 12-15, 2010.
  21. Owens, A & Hoetzer, H (2010) What are the benefits of teaching Australian law to non-law Non-English background students? paper presented at Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference (ALTA), Auckland July 3-6, 2010
  22. Owens, A & Loomes, S (2009) Enhancing the social integration of international students in Australian Universities: strategies for sustaining a quality international student experience, paper presented at Tertiary Education Management Conference Darwin, September 13-16, 2009.
  23. Owens, A (2008) A case study of cross cultural communication issues for Filipino call centre staff and their Australian customers. conference paper presented at IEEE Professional Communication Society Conference 2008: Opening the Information Economy, Concordia University, Montreal, July 14-16, 2008.
  24. Owens, A & Loomes, S (2007) Seeing students as customers: Can a customer-service approach improve the satisfaction levels of international students at Australian universities? conference paper presented at Tertiary Education Management Conference Look to the Future, Canberra September 23-26, 2007.
  25. Owens, A & Litster, J (2008) In my country we didn't: International student reflections on changes in learning in a foundation course at an Australian university, paper presented at CQUniversity Lifelong Learning Conference Rockhampton, June 2008.
  26. Owens, A (2006) Principles for educational text design to promote lifelong learning for second language readers,paper presented at CQU Lifelong Learning Conference, Rockhampton, June 2006.

 

Media articles

  1. Owens, A (Nov 2012) NBN key to teaching languages, Campus Review, 27/11/2012
  2. Owens, A (October 2011) Australian organisations test offshore waters Global Sourcing Council Newsletter, available at: http://gscouncil.org/
  3. Owens, A (2011) Losing on long-term migration, The Australian (Higher Education Supplement), Wednesday 6th April 2011 (33).
  4. Owens, A (2011) International graduates forced to migrate for work experience, ACEL Online.
  5. Owens, A (2000) Studying in Australia, Outsider Monthly, Pukka Publishing, NSW.
  6. Owens, A (1999) 'Giving Multilingual English a Lasting Value', Campus Review Vol.9, No.12 April 7-13, NSW.

 

Films

  1. Owens, A & Loomes, S (2010) A roadmap to learning success in the Australian university culture. student orientation DVD and vodcast resource development available at: http://learning.cqu.edu.au/FCWViewer/view.do?page=12912
  2. Owens, A & Killen, C (2001) Degrees, Mates and Sausages, CQU undergraduate Orientation film for international students, CQUSIC, NSW.

 

Other

Industry seminars/Guest speaker invitations  

  1. Owens, A (2014) Nuts and bolts from shots, whispers and snippets: sourcing, evaluating and incorporating diverse private and public data for historical fiction. CQU Education and Arts School Symposium, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, 26 September 2014.
  2. Owens, A (August 28, 2013) She'll be apples: understanding cultural difference from an Australian perspective, University of Newcastle.
  3. Owens, A (April 18, 2012) Gen Y Panel: Future Business leaders. SSON Conference Melbourne Convention Centre, April 18, 2012.
  4. Owens, A (December 1, 2011) Offshoring BPO the Australian scenario.  industry seminar at First Folio Pty Ltd, Sydney Australia.
  5. Owens, A (September 27, 2011) Intercultural communications in teaching and learning environments, Buffalo State University, Buffalo USA.
  6. Owens, A (September 20, 2011)Intercultural communications in teaching and learning environments. Western Oregon University, Portland USA.
  7. Owens, A (May 10-13, 2011) Australian cultural and linguistic norms on the telephone, Contact Training Sessions, Sykes, Manila, Sykes, Shanghai.
  8. Owens, A (December 14, 2010) Graduating Global Citizens. Graduation speech for CQUniversity, Sydney Town Hall
  9. Owens, A (November 17, 2010)Challenges to international Education in Australia, IERC Forum on Internationalisation of the Curriculum, CQUniversity Sydney.
  10. Owens, A (March 4, 2010) Quality Improvements in the Higher Education Sector: Lessons from an Australian University. Institut Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), Surabaya, Indonesia
  11. Owens, A (February 25, 2010)  Gaining cultural capital for effective learning in globalised learning contexts, BINUS University, Jakarta, Indonesia.
  12. Owens, A (Oct 13, 2009) Excellence in Teaching and Learning, International Centre of Excellence Tourism & Hospitality Conference, Intercontinental Hotel, Sydney.
  13. Owens, A (Feb 16, 2009)What can Australian programs offer Indonesian human resource and education? Universitas Sam Ratulangi, Manado, Indonesia.
  14. Owens, A & Seaegg, A (Oct 15, 2008) International call centres and back office offshoring and outsourcing: What every Australian business needs to know, Industry Executive Seminar, CQUniversity Sydney,
  15. Owens, A (Oct 23, 2008) What is essential to an international education?Researching and practising international education&rsquo, AEI, Jakarta.
  16. Owens, A (Feb 2, 2007) Unis demanding foreign students be passed, ABC 7:30 Report.
  17. Owens, A (Sept and Oct, 1999)   Valuing Multilingual English Speakers in University Contexts, Equity & Representation Forum: University of Technology, Sydney, NSW
  18. Owens, A (1999-2000) Deconstruction in Education, Research Paradigms in Social Sciences, Postmodernism & its Effects on Culture. University of Sydney (Continuing Education)Books

     

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