New Course Structures: The UWA Future Framework

Jane Long is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) and a Winthrop Professor (History) at UWA. She has responsibility for policy and planning in teaching and learning at UWA, and contributes to the University's goals of improving the quality of the student learning experience including international students, and support for excellent teaching practice. She is chair of the Teaching and Learning Committee and Admissions Committee, has responsibility for the University's regional programmes, and its liaison with the secondary sector. She is the University's representative on matters relating to the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, is the Universities Australia representative to the ALTC's Competitive Grants Panel, and is an accredited auditor for the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA). She is also a member of a number of external advisory boards and panels associated with higher education accreditation within the state. She was a shortlisted national finalist in the Australian Awards for University teaching in the category Arts and Humanities (2004) and the recipient of a national Carrick citation for her contribution to student learning (2006).

She graduated with a PhD in late nineteenth-century British history, specialising in the history of poverty and of gender relations, and taught British and modern European history at UWA and elsewhere, before becoming a Teaching and Research Fellow in the Centre for Women’s Studies at UWA in 1995. She became Director of that Centre and was closely involved in its many major innovative teaching and learning initiatives before becoming UWA's Dean of Undergraduate Studies in 2004.

Jane Long was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) in 1999. Her major research interests include gender and poverty, contemporary gender and postmodern theory, cybercultures, and higher education policy and practice. She is an active member of a range of professional groups including the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD), and the International Federation for Research in Women's History (IFRWH). A few of her research publications include: Conversations in Cold Rooms: Women, Work and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Northumberland, London, 1999; 'Domesticating the Internet: Content regulation, virtual nation-building, and the family', in Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia, ed. G. Goggin, 2004 and 'Be [Net] Alert, but Not Alarmed? Regulating the Parents of Generation MSN' Media International Australia, 114, 2005.