Associate Professor Voula Gaganis

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20042024

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Research Biography

I have been fortunate to experience Flinders University across varied roles, initially in research as a PhD student and post-doctoral researcher in Clinical Pharmacology, followed by over a decade teaching in the MD Program as a PBL tutor and lecturer in biomedical sciences. I am the Teaching Program Director for Clinical programs in my College (Medicine & Public Health).

One of my passions in teaching is active learning, particularly using innovative teaching techniques. I have introduced cloud-based learning technology into medical science physiology topics which I am very excited about, and have published in physiology education about active learning and physiological core concepts. I present at national at international conferences on educational design focusing on innovative approaches to teaching.

I am the 2024 SA Science Education and Innovation Awards - Educator of the Year (Uni), and I am honoured to be a recipient of an Australian Award for University Teaching (AAUT), with a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2021), and am a contributor to the AAUT Network Mentor Scheme.

I am convenor of my college's Teaching Specialist Community of Practice which is an interdisciplinary community representing medicine and public health. We foster ongoing interactions between teaching academics across the College with a focus on scholarship of teaching and learning, enabling and building relationships, collaborative activities, sharing knowledge of our practice including repertoire of resources, techniques, trouble-shooting, tools and experiences.

 

Research Collaborations

Boards, Committees and Working Groups

External

  • International Member of Working Group, CPE American Physiological Society Core Concepts Huddles (2024+)
  • International, Associate (Teaching & Learning) - Advance HE UK (2024+)
  • National Taskforce for establishing the core concepts of Physiology (2020+)
  • National, Mentor , Australian Awarded University Teacher Network (AAUTN) Mentor Scheme (2021+)
  • Board Member, Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HACCI) (2024+)
  • Executive Committee Member, Higher Education Research Group Adelaide (HERGA), (2023+)

University-wide

  • Member, Courses and Admissions Committee (CAC) (2025+)
  • Working Group Member, Digital Learning Standards (2021-2023)
  • Vice Chancellors Awards Selection Panel (2023+)

College of Medicine and Publich Health (CMPH)

  • Board Member, Medical Program Board (2025+) 
  • Vice President and Executive Dean Awards, Selection Panel, CMPH (2023)
  • Chair, Course Quality Advisory Group (Clinical), (2024+)
  • Chair, Course Quality Advisory Group (Medical Biosciences), (2023-2024)
  • Chair, Advisory Board, Bachelor of Medical Science (Laboratory Medicine), (2023+)
  • Academic Promotions Committee (2022+)
  • Early and Mid-Career Academic Working Group Member (2021-2023)
  • Teaching Specialist Community of Practice, Primary Convenor, (2020+)
  • Student Success and Wellbeing Working Group Member, (2020+)
  • Course Quality Advisory Group (Medical Biosciences), Member & Chair (2020-2024)
  • Emerging Leaders Showcase Member, (2019-2023)
  • Chair, Emerging Leaders Showcase, (2021)

College of Nursing and Health Sciences

  • Academic Promotions Committee (external member) (2021)
  • Course Management Committee Member, Exercise and Sport Science Programs (2020+)

 

Career Highlights

Select Grants

2024WATTLE (Women ATTaining LEadership) Academic Leadership Course (Women Attaining Leadership): Education Grant (https://wattleprogram.org/)
 HERDSA (Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia): Conference Travel Grant (https://herdsa.org.au/)
2023Master of Education (Higher Education): Education SoTL Grant
2021Teaching Specialist Community of Practice: Education Grant
 Overseas Conference Travel Grant
2020Research Project - Predictors of Academic Succes: Education Grant: value $14,300

 

Research Interests

Higher Education

Physiology Education

Active Learning

Drug Metabolism

Renal Glucuronidation of NSAIDs & Fatty Acids

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education

Education/Academic qualification

Master, Master of Education (Higher Education)

Award Date: 1 Jun 2023

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), AdvanceHE

Award Date: 20 Feb 2023

PhD, Renal Glucuronidation of Fatty Acids and Non‐Steroidal Anti‐Inflammatory Drugs: A Link to NSAID‐Related Nephrotoxicity, Flinders University

Award Date: 1 Jun 2004

External positions

Board Member, The Hellenic Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (HACCI) - South Australia

2025 → …

Member, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia

2024 → …

International Member , Centre for Physiology Education, American Physiological Association (APA)

2023 → …

Executive Committee Member, Higher Education Research Group Adelaide (HERGA)

2023 → …

AAUTN Mentor , Australian Awarded University Teacher Network (AAUTN) Mentor Scheme

2021 → …

Research Areas

  • Exercise science/ physiology
  • Education
  • Medical biosciences

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