Associate Professor
Amanda Stickley

Biography

Amanda Stickley is the Director, Curriculum Quality & Academic Integrity, part of the Education Portfolio in the Academic Division of QUT. In this role, Amanda is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of QUT's academic governance policy, curriculum quality assurance, and academic integrity, reporting to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor & Vice-President (Academic). Amanda has over 20 years of experience in learning and teaching and has in that time gained extensive knowledge of academic governance and effective policy, higher education standards and curriculum design and quality assurance. She is a TEQSA expert, providing independent advice on specific, identified elements of regulatory assessments and reviews in the discipline of law. Until 2019, Amanda was an academic in the Law School at QUT, teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and also supervised higher degree research students. Amanda successfully carried out a number of management roles in the Law Faculty that related to learning and teaching, including the role of Faculty of Law Associate Dean, Learning & Teaching (2014-2018). As the Associate Dean, Amanda provided strategic advice to the Executive Dean and provided leadership of learning and teaching within the faculty. A significant part of the role included developing teaching quality, promoting effective learning environments to support student learning and ensuring that QUT's Real World Learning Vision was enacted and delivered in all courses. Amanda continued to teach whilst she held management positions, her main area of teaching was torts law, a core first-year unit in the Bachelor of Laws (Honours). Amanda's teaching has been recognised by the Higher Education Academy (UK) through a Senior Fellowship as well as by QUT through the award of four Vice-Chancellor Performance Awards for 'significant and superior contribution to the work of the University' (2007, 2008, 2014, 2017). Amanda is the author of Australian Torts Law (LexisNexis Butterworths, 4th ed, 2016), a monograph that is the prescribed text at many Australian universities and has been cited over 35 times (monographs, journalism government research and Supreme Court of Queensland). She was the torts section editor of The Queensland Lawyer (Thomson Reuters) from 2001 until 2014 and was a member of the editorial panel of Australian Civil Liability (LexisNexis Butterworths) from 2013 to 2017. Amanda contributed a chapter, ‘The Risk of Liability: A Tightrope for Entertainment Productions’ to the edited monograph, Entertainment Law (The Federation Press, 2017). In  2023 a newly established Academic Integrity Unit was added to Amanda's responsibilities. As Director, Curriculum Quality & Academic Integrity, Amanda is the Chair of the Curriculum Standards Committee, a member of the University Academic Board and the University Learning & Teaching Committee. She also is an active participant in a variety of university-level working groups, for example, Education for Sustainability and Designing and Evidencing for Learning. The Director's Office, Curriculum Quality & Academic Integrity encompasses three areas:

1. Curriculum Quality & Standards - Providing expert advice on the Higher Education Standards Framework and QUT educational policies.
2. Academic Integrity Unit - Leading and implementing an educative approach to academic integrity through policy and a strong community of practice in partnership with faculties and QUT College.
3. Curriculum Support - Providing high-level professional centralised service to all faculties and QUT College in curriculum development approval processes.