CRADLE PhD Graduates & Students

Dr Christoffer Haase

Thesis title: Datafying Diagnosis: Data Work in General Practice

Christoffer investigated how, in the current data surge, data interacts with diagnostic work in general practice, and to reflect on how to better prepare general practitioners to work in data-intensive environments.

Christoffer was supervised by by Professor Klaus Lindgaard Høyer, University of Copenhagen, and CRADLE’s Professor Margaret Bearman. His co-supervisors were Professor John Brandt Brodersen and Associate Professor Torsten Risør of the University of Copenhagen, and Professor Rola Ajjawi of CRADLE.

Christoffer graduated in 2023 cotutelle with the University of Copenhagen.

Dr Olsi Kusta

Thesis title: Digitization of Pathology: Exploring the implications of digital technologies in routine work, research, and medical education

Olsi’s thesis explores the shift to digital pathology in the medical specialty of pathology.

Olsi suggests that implementing and using digital pathology in primary diagnosis or the virtual microscope in pathology education is not unproblematic but requires attention to tensions and uncertainties across research, routine work, and education.

Olsi was supervised by by Professor Klaus Lindgaard Høyer, University of Copenhagen, and CRADLE’s Professor Margaret Bearman. Olsi graduated in 2023 cotutelle with the University of Copenhagen.

Dr Rebecca Awdry

Thesis title: A criminological approach to understanding assignment outsourcing in higher education

Dr Rebecca Awdry’s doctoral thesis was completed by publication and was supervised by CRADLE Co-Director Professor Phill Dawson, CRADLE Honorary Fellow Associate Professor Wendy Sutherland-Smith and Dr Andrew Groves of Flinders University.

Rebecca’s research investigated student engagement in assignment outsourcing using an international survey released in 22 languages. Rebecca graduated in 2023.

Dr Lasse X Jensen

Thesis title: Feedback in online higher education

Lasse examined feedback processes in online higher education using digital ethnography, revealing three types of feedback encounters: elicited, formal, and incidental. Outcomes indicate that productive feedback encounters challenge students’ assumptions and occur when they are open to such challenges. This research contributes to understanding feedback as a contextual process, offering insights applicable to both online and campus education.

Lasse was supervised by Professor Margaret Bearman and CRADLE Co-Director Alfred Deakin Professor David Boud. Lasse graduated in 2023.

Dr Bianka Malecka

Thesis title: The role of ipsative feedback processes in developing students’ feedback literacy

Bianka’s thesis was completed by publication of four papers and supervised by Professor Rola Ajjawi, Dr Joanna Tai and CRADLE Co-Director Alfred Deakin Professor David Boud.

Bianka argues that ipsative feedback design facilitates students’ engagement in productive feedback practices. Bianka graduated in 2022.

Dr Damian Castanelli

Thesis title: How can assessment for learning meaningfully contribute to programmatic assessment?

Damian’s thesis explored supervisors’ and trainees’ difficulties in implementing ‘assessment for learning’ in postgraduate anaesthesia specialty training.

Damian suggests emphasising the coaching role and encouraging supervisor trustworthiness provide possible foci for interventions to enhance the contribution of assessment for learning to programmatic assessment.

Damian was supervised by Professor Margaret Bearman of CRADLE and Professor Elizabeth Molloy of the University of Melbourne. Damian graduated in 2022.

Dr Abbas Mehrabi Boshrabadi

Thesis title: Developing First Year Students’ Evaluative Judgement of Academic Writing

Abbas’s thesis was supervised by Professor Rola Ajjawi and CRADLE Co-Director Alfred Deakin Professor David Boud.

The thesis explored how assessment activities in the first-year academic writing context can be designed more effectively to set up situations for students to develop their own writing evaluation skills. Abbas graduated in 2022.

Dr Juan Fischer Rodriguez

Thesis title: Evaluative judgement in undergraduate physics: A Practice Architectures perspective

Juan received a CRADLE strategic scholarship in August 2018 and since then has successfully completed research in the area of evaluative judgement. Juan argued that evaluative judgement needs to be understood in terms of what students do and not solely in terms of formative assessment design.

Juan’s thesis was overseen by supervisors Dr Joanna Tai, Professor Margaret Bearman and CRADLE Co-Director Alfred Deakin Professor David Boud. Juan graduated in 2022.

Dr Jaclyn Broadbent

Thesis title: Self-regulated Learning Strategies in Online Higher Education

Jaclyn’s PhD was completed by publication and she was supervised by CRADLE Co-Director Alfred Deakin Professor David Boud and Professor Ernesto Panadero.

Through a series of publications Jaclyn explored self-regulated learning and how it affects learning. Jaclyn graduated in 2021.

Dr Sarah Lambert

Thesis title: Open Education as Social Justice

Sarah’s thesis investigates how recent innovations in open, online education can act as social justice for socio-economically disadvantaged learners. Recommendations are made on how to design open education programs to overcome histories of disadvantage for many learners who are traditionally under-represented in or excluded from higher education.

Sarah was supervised by CRADLE Co-Director Alfred Deakin Professor David Boud,  Dr. Joanna Tai, CRADLE Co-Director Professor Phillip Dawson, and Dr. Nadine Zacharias. Sarah graduated in 2020.