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Susan Leonie Rowland
Profile
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OrganizationThe University of Queensland
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ORCID0000-0003-1926-7509
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Address
address1: The School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience address2: The University of Queensland city: St Lucia postal: 4072 region: QLD country: AU address1: Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation address2: The University of Queensland city: St Lucia postal: 4072 region: QLD country: AU
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Biography
Associate Professor Susan Rowland completed a BSc Hons and PhD at the University of Sydney, Australia, and a Human Frontiers in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Connecticut, USA.
She is currently Deputy Director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI) and a teaching-focused faculty member in School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences (SCMB) at the University of Queensland, Australia. Susan has been a Manning Clark Fellow, an American Society for Microbiology Biology Scholar, a UQ Teaching Fellow, and is a UQ Fellow for 2017. She has won multiple awards for her teaching, including an Australian Award for University Teaching (2014) and the 2014 Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Beckman Coulter Award for Teaching Excellence. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2016). In 2017 she is a UQ Teaching Fellow, focusing on Work Integrated Learning for Science students.
Susan teaches biology, biochemistry, and molecular biology at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University of Queensland. Her Scholarship of Teaching and Learning focuses on the development of student professionalism through immersion in authentic scientific practice. She has particular interests in undergraduate research experiences and science communication.