Karen Benson's Profile

Karen is the Director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation at the University of Queensland. Karen has been employed by UQ for 17 years initially as a finance academic and more recently in the Office of the Academic Board and ITaLI. Over the last nine years, she has held significant leadership roles both within the Business School and at the broader University level. Her experience has resulted in a deep understanding of UQ’s teaching and learning goals, processes and policies which will enable leadership and delivery of the ITaLI agenda. With a background in finance education and research, Karen has strengths in curriculum design for large undergraduate and post graduate programs, teaching diverse student groups, delivery of executive education, assessment design, and qualitative and quantitative research methods.