
Overview
Background
Gloria Dall'Alba is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland and higher education consultant at GD Higher Ed Consulting. Her research focuses on learning and teaching in higher education and the workplace, with a particular interest in educating for the professions and the philosophy of higher education. After completing a PhD at Monash University in Australia and Postdoctoral Fellowship at Gothenburg University in Sweden, she has held positions at the University of Queensland, the University of Melbourne and RMIT University, as well as at Karolinska Institute and a secondment to Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. She has published widely on a range of issues relating to higher education, workplace learning and research inquiry. A strong strand of her research is interdisciplinary. She has collaborated with researchers from Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden and the USA from the fields of higher education, pharmacy, business, dentistry, engineering, forensic science, medicine, nursing, philosophy and physics.
For further details on publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8337-0530
Availability
- Associate Professor Gloria Dall'Alba is:
- Not available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours), James Cook University
- Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University
Research interests
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Education for the professions
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Learning and teaching in higher education
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Philosophy of higher education
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Learning in workplace settings
Works
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Featured
2024
Journal Article
Toward responsive attunement as health professionals
Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). Toward responsive attunement as health professionals. Studies in Continuing Education, 46 (3), 299-316. doi: 10.1080/0158037x.2023.2193388
Featured
2022
Journal Article
Making the familiar unfamiliar: re-thinking teaching in higher education
Dall’Alba, Gloria (2022). Making the familiar unfamiliar: re-thinking teaching in higher education. Higher Education Research and Development, 42 (3), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2022.2105822
Featured
2020
Journal Article
Toward a Pedagogy of Responsive Attunement for Higher Education
Dall’Alba, Gloria (2020). Toward a Pedagogy of Responsive Attunement for Higher Education. Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, 2 (2), 21-43. doi: 10.3726/ptihe022020.0002
Featured
2020
Journal Article
Bodily grounds of learning: embodying professional practice in biotechnology
Dall’Alba, Gloria and Sandberg, Jörgen (2020). Bodily grounds of learning: embodying professional practice in biotechnology. Studies in Higher Education, 46 (9), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/03075079.2019.1711047
Featured
2019
Journal Article
Re-imagining active learning: Delving into darkness
Dall’Alba, Gloria and Bengtsen, Søren (2019). Re-imagining active learning: Delving into darkness. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51 (14), 1477-1489. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2018.1561367
Featured
2018
Book Chapter
Reframing expertise and its development: a lifeworld perspective
Dall’Alba, Gloria (2018). Reframing expertise and its development: a lifeworld perspective. The Cambridge handbook of expertise and expert performance. (pp. 33-39) edited by K. Anders Ericsson, Robert R. Hoffman, Aaron Kozbelt and A. Mark Williams. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781316480748.003
Featured
2014
Journal Article
Authentic assessment for student learning: an ontological conceptualisation
Vu, Thuy T. and Dall'Alba, Gloria (2014). Authentic assessment for student learning: an ontological conceptualisation. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 46 (7), 778-791. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2013.795110
Featured
2014
Book Chapter
A phenomenological perspective on researching work and learning
Dall'Alba, Gloria and Sandberg, Jörgen (2014). A phenomenological perspective on researching work and learning. International handbook of research in professional and practice-based learning. (pp. 279-304) edited by Stephen Billett, Christian Harteis and Hans Gruber. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-8902-8_11
Featured
2009
Journal Article
Learning professional ways of being: Ambiguities of becoming
Dall'Alba, Gloria (2009). Learning professional ways of being: Ambiguities of becoming. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 41 (1), 34-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2008.00475.x
Featured
2009
Book
Learning to be professionals
Dall'Alba, G. (2009). Learning to be professionals. 1 ed. Dordrecht: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-2608-8
Featured
2007
Journal Article
An ontological turn for higher education
Dall'Alba, Gloria and Barnacle, Robyn (2007). An ontological turn for higher education. Studies In Higher Education, 32 (6), 679-691. doi: 10.1080/03075070701685130
Featured
2006
Journal Article
Unveiling professional development: A critical review of stage models
Dall'Alba, Gloria and Sandberg, Jorgen (2006). Unveiling professional development: A critical review of stage models. Review of Educational Research, 76 (3), 383-412. doi: 10.3102/00346543076003383
2025
Journal Article
Things at Work: How Things Contribute to Performing Work
Sandberg, Jörgen, Dall'Alba, Gloria and Stephens, Anna (2025). Things at Work: How Things Contribute to Performing Work. Journal of Management Studies. doi: 10.1111/joms.13182
2024
Book Chapter
Re-imagining the University: Developing a Capacity to Care
Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). Re-imagining the University: Developing a Capacity to Care. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 253-263) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_15
2024
Book Chapter
Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: Re-thinking Teaching in Higher Education
Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). Making the Familiar Unfamiliar: Re-thinking Teaching in Higher Education. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 237-251) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_14
2024
Book Chapter
Embodied Knowing in Online Environments
Dall’Alba, Gloria and Barnacle, Robyn (2024). Embodied Knowing in Online Environments. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 109-135) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_7
2024
Book Chapter
Authentic assessment for student learning: an ontological conceptualisation
Vu, Thuy T. and Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). Authentic assessment for student learning: an ontological conceptualisation. Being and becoming through higher education: expanding possibilities. (pp. 195-209) edited by Gloria Dall’Alba. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_11
2024
Book Chapter
Becoming Authentic Professionals: Learning for Authenticity
Vu, Thuy T. and Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). Becoming Authentic Professionals: Learning for Authenticity. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 67-80) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_5
2024
Book Chapter
International Education and (Dis)embodied Cosmopolitanisms
Sidhu, Ravinder Kaur and Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). International Education and (Dis)embodied Cosmopolitanisms. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 137-157) Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_8
2024
Book Chapter
Learning Professional Ways of Being: Ambiguities of Becoming
Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). Learning Professional Ways of Being: Ambiguities of Becoming. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 35-47) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_3
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Associate Professor Gloria Dall'Alba is:
- Not available for supervision
Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Becoming pharmacists: exploring professional development of pharmacists following graduation
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Adam La Caze
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Transnational Mobilities of Australia-Educated and Domiciled Professional Migrants from Vietnam
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Ravinder Sidhu
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
Investigating Authentic Assessment for Student Learning in Higher Education
Principal Advisor
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2010
Doctor Philosophy
Border gods in classrooms and communities: on the pedagogical uses of enchantment
Principal Advisor
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2008
Master Philosophy
Experiential Education in the Undergraduate Pharmacy Curriculum
Principal Advisor
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
AGENCY, DISCOURSE AND ACADEMIC PRACTICE: RECONCEPTUALISING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN AN AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITY
Principal Advisor
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2006
Doctor Philosophy
UNDERSTANDING CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Principal Advisor
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
BRINGING THE WORLD TO MELBOURNE: TRANSNATIONALISM, AGENCY AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TO MAKING A CITY, 2000-2010
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Bob Lingard
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
Promoting Integration of Educational Technology among Teacher Educators
Associate Advisor
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2009
Doctor Philosophy
What in the World is Social Justice?: A Phenomenographic Study of Queensland Final Year Pre-Service Secondary Social Science Teachers' Conceptions of Social Justice
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Honorary Professor Martin Mills
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2008
Doctor Philosophy
Challenging Gender Equity in Higher Education: A Plan for Papua New Guinea
Associate Advisor
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
WAYS OF EXPERIENCING SUSTAINABLE DESIGN IN ENGINEERING: A PHENOMENOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION
Associate Advisor
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