Wandering the world

A little bit of background📝 In 2015 I was working at the University of Queensland on an institutional graduate employability project. A key contribution to the project was my leadership of the creation of a Massive Open Online Course [MOOC] to support students to develop their employability. The course, Unlocking your employability, was the first of its kind on the edX platform, a global consortium of top-tier universities who offer short online courses on a range of subject

A little bit of background📝 I was fortunate to have an abstract accepted for the 2014 European First-Year Experience Conference, held at Nottingham Trent University. As with the 2013 conference trip , my experience was a quick gallop across the week I was away, this time in Nottingham, Brighton, and London. Travel to Nottingham ✈️ I flew to London in June 2014 with Singapore Airlines, with the usual Changi Airport stopover on the way over, having left Brisbane on a Saturday

A little bit of background📝 This post is covers the whirlwind week I spent in 2013, first to present at an academic conference in Helsinki, Finland, with a day trip to Tallinn, Estonia. Then I flew to England and for a whirlwind of activity in Brighton, London and Rochester. Yep, you read that correctly. I did all of that in a week! Read on for more... The long trek to Helsinki✈️ It was May 2013, and I'd not long returned from our trip to Hawaii for our 20th wedding anniver

A little bit of background📝 Second time to Hawaii! Read here for the post about my first visit in 2010, to Maui to present at a conference with a bonus few post-conference days on Oahu. My second Hawaiian experience was in April 2013, where we had two weeks to explore Oahu and an overnight sojourn to the Big Island. When I say "we", I mean the four of us on a family holiday to celebrate 20th wedding anniversary. Note: WED is the acronym I will use in this post refer to my fa