Karen Trimmer
Position Post-graduate Program Coordinator-Education
Organisation University of Southern Queensland
Location Darling Heights, QLD

Bio
Associate Professor Karen Trimmer is Postgraduate Program Coordinator–Education, with University of Southern Queensland, and previously held roles as Assistant Dean Staffing and A/Head of School. Her scholarship and research focus is leadership for community capacity building, through research that impacts on education and social justice policy and governance through professional development and empowerment of leaders in education organisations and communities. She is USQ’s representative for the Australian Council of Deans of Education, More Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Teachers Initiative and received a MATSITI grant to conduct research in this area. Her nationally recognised expertise in educational evaluation was sought to evaluate the OLT project, Skilling Up; Improving educational opportunities for AEWs through technology-based pedagogy. She is also currently working with DETE providing professional development for Master teachers to undertake Action research within QLD schools, which assists capacity building through the purposeful collection and use of data for evidence based decision making.

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