Professor Romina Jamieson-Proctor

Dip.T., B.Ed., Grad.Dip.Computer Ed., M.Ed., PhD

Emeritus Professor Jamieson-Proctor until her retirement in 2022 was a Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education and Arts at ACU. Concurrently she is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Teacher Education at USQ.

Other positions she has held include:

Queensland State Head of Education (ACU),

Associate Professor (Teacher Education) and Associate Director of Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) Fraser Coast campus (2007-2014),

Lecturer and Senior Lecturer (Mathematics and ICT Education) at Griffith University (2001-2007),

Post-doctoral Research Fellow at QUT (2000-2001),

Senior Project Officer, Teacher and Principal with Education Queensland (1976-1999).

Throughout her academic career, her teaching and research interests and endeavours focused on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance and transform learning and teaching to meet the needs of 21st century learners. She published extensively with more than 90 refereed publications, including the book Transforming learning with ICT: Making IT Happen. Her work in this field was recognised nationally and internationally and she won several Highly Commended and Best Research Paper Awards at Australian Computers in Education Conferences, and more than $1.9m in successful external competitive grants and consultancies, a Schooling 2001 Queensland Award for contribution to the integration of learning technology in Queensland schools and a prestigious QUT Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate the impact of ICT on higher order thinking, problem solving and creativity. She lead several large scale pure and applied research projects specifically investigating the impact of ICT on teaching and learning across both state and national education systems. She has expertise in quantitative methods, especially the design and development of theoretically and statistically valid and reliable measurement instruments.

Teaching was Professor Jamieson-Proctor's life work and passion for over 46 years and she won several awards for teaching including a Griffith University Commendation for Excellence in Teaching (2003). She was awarded the honorary title Professor Emeritus by the senate of the Australian Catholic University on 28 April 2022 in recognition of her service to the University since 2014, as State Head of School of Education (QLD) and Professor within the School of Education as well as for her contribution to the field of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) generally, in particular her innovative approach to teaching and pedagogical frameworks, which made an outstanding contribution to the field of education both domestically and internationally.

See Google Scholar for publications:

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=S25lB-gAAAAJ

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-6886-5209

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romina-jamieson-proctor-0ab16920/