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Associate Professor Gloria Dall'Alba
Associate Professor

Gloria Dall'Alba

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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

  • Education for the professions

  • Learning and teaching in higher education

  • Philosophy of higher education

  • Learning in workplace settings

Works

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132 works between 1981 and 2025

21 - 40 of 132 works

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

Authentic assessment for student learning: an ontological conceptualisation

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

Becoming Authentic Professionals: Learning for Authenticity

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

International Education and (Dis)embodied Cosmopolitanisms

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

Learning Professional Ways of Being: Ambiguities of Becoming

2024

Book

Being and becoming through higher education: expanding possibilities

Gloria Dall’Alba ed. (2024). Being and becoming through higher education: expanding possibilities. Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0

Being and becoming through higher education: expanding possibilities

2024

Book Chapter

An Ontological Turn for Higher Education

Dall’Alba, Gloria and Barnacle, Robyn (2024). An Ontological Turn for Higher Education. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 21-33) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_2

An Ontological Turn for Higher Education

2024

Book Chapter

Evaluative Judgement for Learning to Be in a Digital World

Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). Evaluative Judgement for Learning to Be in a Digital World. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 211-221) Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_12

Evaluative Judgement for Learning to Be in a Digital World

2024

Book Chapter

Improving Teaching: Enhancing Ways of Being University Teachers

Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). Improving Teaching: Enhancing Ways of Being University Teachers. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 225-236) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_13

Improving Teaching: Enhancing Ways of Being University Teachers

2024

Book Chapter

Committed to Learn: Student Engagement and Care in Higher Education

Barnacle, Robyn and Dall’Alba, Gloria (2024). Committed to Learn: Student Engagement and Care in Higher Education. Being and Becoming Through Higher Education. (pp. 179-193) Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-2062-0_10

Committed to Learn: Student Engagement and Care in Higher Education

2020

Journal Article

We are all patient-centred now, aren't we? Lessons from new pharmacy graduates

Burrows, Judith, Dall'Alba, Gloria and La Caze, Adam (2020). We are all patient-centred now, aren't we? Lessons from new pharmacy graduates. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, 12 (5), 508-516. doi: 10.1016/j.cptl.2020.01.017

We are all patient-centred now, aren't we? Lessons from new pharmacy graduates

2019

Conference Publication

Re-thinking professional development: curriculum for the 21st century (Invited keynote address)

Dall'Alba, Gloria (2019). Re-thinking professional development: curriculum for the 21st century (Invited keynote address). In: College of Oral Health Academics conference, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia, (). 25-26 November 2019.

Re-thinking professional development: curriculum for the 21st century (Invited keynote address)

2019

Conference Publication

Responsive attunement: tuning in to what matters in educational settings

Dall'Alba, Gloria (2019). Responsive attunement: tuning in to what matters in educational settings. Australian Association for Research in Education, Brisbane, Australia, 1-5 December 2019.

Responsive attunement: tuning in to what matters in educational settings

2018

Book Chapter

Evaluative judgement for learning to be in a digital world

Dall’Alba, Gloria (2018). Evaluative judgement for learning to be in a digital world. Developing evaluative judgement in higher education: assessment for knowing and producing quality work. (pp. 18-27) edited by David Boud, Rola Ajjawi, Phillip Dawson and Joanna Tai. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315109251-3

Evaluative judgement for learning to be in a digital world

2018

Conference Publication

Student being and becoming in the future university (Invited panel presentation)

Dall'Alba, Gloria (2018). Student being and becoming in the future university (Invited panel presentation). Philosophy of Higher Education Conference, London, United Kingdom, 10-12 September 2018.

Student being and becoming in the future university (Invited panel presentation)

2018

Book Chapter

Evaluative judgement for learning to be in a digital world

Dall’Alba, Gloria (2018). Evaluative judgement for learning to be in a digital world. Developing Evaluative Judgement in Higher Education: Assessment for Knowing and Producing Quality Work. (pp. 18-27) Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315109251

Evaluative judgement for learning to be in a digital world

2018

Conference Publication

Becoming pharmacy professionals: curriculum development for the 21st century (Invited keynote address)

Dall'Alba, Gloria (2018). Becoming pharmacy professionals: curriculum development for the 21st century (Invited keynote address). International Life Long Learning Conference in Pharmacy, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 6-9 July 2018.

Becoming pharmacy professionals: curriculum development for the 21st century (Invited keynote address)

2018

Conference Publication

Learning to form evaluative judgements

Dall'Alba, Gloria (2018). Learning to form evaluative judgements. European Conference on Educational Research, Bolzano, Italy, 4-7 September 2018.

Learning to form evaluative judgements

2018

Conference Publication

Constraints and freedoms of practice-based education: being and becoming future engineering professionals

Dall'Alba, Gloria and Sandberg, Jorgen (2018). Constraints and freedoms of practice-based education: being and becoming future engineering professionals. Tenth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, Halkidiki, Greece, 20-23 June 2018.

Constraints and freedoms of practice-based education: being and becoming future engineering professionals

2018

Conference Publication

Constraints and freedoms of practice-based education: being and becoming future engineering professionals

Mann, Llewellyn, Dohaney, Jacqueline, Coddington, Alicen and Dall'Alba, Gloria (2018). Constraints and freedoms of practice-based education: being and becoming future engineering professionals. Philosophy of Higher Education Conference, London, United Kingdom, 10-12 September 2018.

Constraints and freedoms of practice-based education: being and becoming future engineering professionals

2017

Journal Article

Embodying skillful performance: co-constituting body and world in biotechnology

Dall'Alba, Gloria, Sandberg, Jorgen and Sidhu, Ravinder Kaur (2017). Embodying skillful performance: co-constituting body and world in biotechnology. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50 (3), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2017.1343114

Embodying skillful performance: co-constituting body and world in biotechnology

Funding

Past funding

  • 2011 - 2013
    Knowing in professional practice: Enhancing the relationship between professional education and practice
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2005
    Embodied Knowing in Higher Education
    University of Queensland Research Development Grants Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2004
    2004 Travel Scheme Cat 2_Univ London; 2 weeks in Sept 2004
    UQ Travel Grants Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2003 - 2005
    Learning in virtual environments
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Associate Professor Gloria Dall'Alba is:
Not available for supervision

Supervision history

Completed supervision

Media

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  • Education for the professions
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