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Dr Don Zoellner

Charles Darwin University

Dr Don Zoellner has been a senior leader in school, vocational and higher education sectors in the NT since 1973 including Centralian College and Charles Darwin University. He was a panel member of the Shergold Review of Senior Secondary Pathways and served on numerous NT and national advisory committees, reviews and evaluations of education and training.

He has chaired Group Training NT and the Industry Skills Advisory Council NT boards. He was the NT representative on the Australian Industry and Skills Committee and a member of the National VET Regulator Advisory Council. He independently researches, presents and publishes on VET.

Kira Clarke

Brotherhood of St Laurence

Kira Clarke is a Principal Research Fellow for Skills and Training in in the Social Policy and Research Centre (SPARC) at the Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL), where she leads the Education, Skills & Training team. For twenty years Kira has been researching educational policy and practice, with a focus on youth transitions and vocational education and training.

Prior to joining BSL in early 2020, Kira spent more than 15 years at the University of Melbourne as a teaching and research lecturer in education policy. At BSL Kira and her team are leading SPARC’s education, skills and training policy and research program of work, which includes streams of work on employment based training, employability, place-based innovation partnerships with industry for co-designing new pathways to entry level work.

Kira is the current President of the Australasian Vocational Education and Research Association (AVETRA) and Victorian co-convener of WAVE (Women in Adult & Vocational Education).

AVETRA

AVETRA 26 is organised by the Australasian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA), with the support of FineHaus

Telephone

AVETRA Secretariat
+61 3 3 8658 6641

Email

Conference Administration
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AVETRA Website

www.avetra.org.au