Franziska Trede's Profile

Franziska Trede is an Associate Professor in Higher Education and Professional Practice in the Institute for Interactive Media and Learning (IML) at UTS where she leads the Learning and Teaching Team and coordinates the IML Research Program and the UTS wide Course Directors Network. Franziska is the President of the Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Charles Sturt University. Her research program is driven by the question; why do people think and act the way they do? Her research interests include professional learning, professional identity development, agency, educating the deliberate professional, employability and the educational partnership between university and workplaces. She has conducted numerous funded research projects in the area of workplace learning, leadership and enhancing learning with technology. Franziska has published 1 co-authored book and 7 co-edited books and over 100 peer-reviewed book chapters and journal papers. She serves on 4 editorial boards: Studies in Continuing Education, Active Learning in Higher Education, International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning and the journal of Professions and Professionalism. Franziska has supervised PhD candidates who have won the University Medal and Faculty Prizes. She has a track record in producing multi-media resources from her research program. She has produced self-paced online modules for inter-professional and academic leadership and self-paced module for practitioners who supervise university students in their workplace. She has also developed trigger films of workplace learning scenes accompanied by teacher guides to build capacity for agency in students, academics and workplace supervisors. Franziska has presented her work on local, national and international platforms and was invited speaker, visiting professor and workshop facilitator in higher education institutions in Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and UK.