Speakers
MC - Ewan McIntosh
Ewan McIntosh, Managing Director, NoTosh
Leading projects around the world for clients in education and industry, Ewan is the passionate and energising tour de force behind NoTosh. A highly regarded keynote speaker at events around the world, he’s also the author of How To Come Up With Great Ideas and Actually Make Them Happen and regularly writes about learning on his blog: edu.blogs.com.
NoTosh is a global consultancy with a passion for learning and a conviction that innovation and creativity can change the way people think, the way they learn and the way they work – as individuals, teams, organisations and communities. “As a French and German high school teacher in Scotland back in the 1990s, I wanted to find new ways to help students engage with my subjects – I felt strongly that technology was both critical to this and underused in the classroom, so my classes were among the first in Europe to podcast and blog as part of their daily learning.
“From here, it was a reasonably logical step to become National Advisor on Learning and Technology Futures for the Scottish Government … although joining Channel 4 as their Digital Commissioner in 2008 was a step in a different direction. But it was at Channel 4, that I became fascinated by the strategies and tactics that my creative colleagues were using to create imaginative and truly engaging digital services for young people. Could I take this insight and make it work in an education setting? Yes, I reckoned I could … and that’s how NoTosh came about.”
Paul Collard
Chief Executive, Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE),Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Paul Collard is Chief Executive of the international foundation Creativity, Culture & Education (CCE) and responsible for designing and delivering programmes that unlock and develop the creativity of children and young people. The programme was originally developed and implemented in England 2002-2011 and now CCE supports the delivery of programmes across a wide range of countries including Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Lithuania, Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Pakistan, Chile, and right here in the city of Perth itself.
Professor John Hattie
Laureate Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
Laureate Professor John Hattie’s work is internationally acclaimed. His influential 2008 book Visible Learning - A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement is believed to be the world’s largest evidence-based study into the factors that improve student learning. Hailed by the Times Education Supplement as “teaching’s Holy Grail”, this ground-breaking study involved more than 80 million students from around the world and brought together 50,000 smaller studies. Visible Learning found that positive teacher-student interaction is the most important factor in effective teaching.
Since 2011, Professor Hattie has been Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne. He is also the Chair of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL), through which he provides national leadership in promoting excellence so that teachers and school leaders have maximum impact on learning. He is also past-president of the International Test Commission and Associate Editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and American Educational Research Journal.
Professor Hattie was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours, and is a fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders and the American Psychological Association. His areas of interest are measurement models and their applications to educational problems, and models of teaching and learning. He has supervised 200 theses students, and published and presented over 1000 papers and 31 books – including 8 on Visible Learning.
Francine Houben
CEO/Founding Partner, Mecanoo architecten, Delft, Netherlands
Francine Houben is Founding Partner and Creative Director of Mecanoo architecten. Her work ranges from theatres, museums and libraries to neighbourhoods, housing and parks. With her practice, she has gained international acclaim. Selected worksinclude the Delft University of Technology Library, La Llotja Theatre and CongressCentre in Lleida, the Library of Birmingham, and the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan. Currently,she is working on the renovations of the New York Public Library and the central library of Washington, DC –originally designed by Mies van der Rohe.
She holds Honorary Fellowships of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC), and was granted lifelong membership to the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. In 2015, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands presented her the prestigious PrinsBernhard Cultuurfonds Prize for her entire oeuvre.
Viggo Haremst
Henning Larsen, Vesterbrogade, Denmark
Viggo is a Partner and Design Director for Henning Larsen whose major areas of focus include overseeing design development of competitions and projects, client contact, and strategic development of the office on the European and Australian market. Drawing on his extensive experience as design director for international projects in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, Viggo has a broad international perspective.His ability to head and develop competition projects with clear concepts and an understanding of the local context has been at the root of many important contributions to Henning Larsen’s portfolio.
His contributions to the design of the award-winning SDU Campus Kolding resulted in one of the world’s first low energy universities. Campus Kolding now serves as an inspiration for Henning Larsen’s work on educational buildings around the world as it demonstrates the value of innovative learning spaces. As Design Director, Viggo utilizes the practice’s insight into how knowledge is exchanged and grown between teachers, researchers, and students when designing frameworks for knowledge sharing in workplaces for companies or large institutions. Viggo is currently expanding Henning Larsen’s portfolio of high-profile office buildings in Europe and Australia.
Kate Raynes-Goldie
Multi Award-Winning Game Designer
Dr. Kate Raynes-Goldie is an engagement intelligence specialist, educational consultant and multi-award-winning game designer. She harnesses the power of play to empower individuals and organisations, from preparing young people for the future of work to helping organisations deeply understand and engage with their stakeholders. Kate also creates games and playful experiences for education, engagement and social impact. Her work has been played around the world, including the London Theatre and the Toronto International Film Festival. Previous clients include Deakin University, RAC WA, Bankwest, and Health Canada.
She was named one of WA’s 40 under 40 in 2018 as well as the Australian Computer Society’s Digital Disruptor ICT Professional of the Year in 2016. She holds a PhD from Curtin's Department of Internet Studies, where she is also an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, and is a graduate of The Canadian Film Centre's New Media Program.
Wes Imms
Associate Professor, Spatial Pedagogies, Director, Learning Environments Applied Research Network@MGSE | Head, Visual Art and Design Education
Dr Wesley Imms is Associate Professor of Education in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, a Director of the University of Melbourne's Learning Environments Applied Research Network (LEaRN), and Director of LEaRN@MGSE. In these roles he teaches into Masters and Doctoral programs on subjects that bridge curriculum and learning environments and conducts research projects working with individual schools through to whole education systems. He has authored approximately 80 scholarly papers, government and industry research reports and books on learning environments use and evaluation. He has secured over $13M in external funding for research. He is currently principal supervisor to 15 PhD theses on learning environments, involving students from five countries and four Australian states.
Associate Professor Imms is Lead Chief Investigator on two current Australian Research Council Linkage projects that are building an extensive evidence base on learning environment use; the Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments, and more recently the significant Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change (ILETC) Project. The latter involves 15 partner organisations across four countries including Learning Environments Australasia, Telstra Australia, Ecophon (Sweden) Steelcase (USA) the New Zealand Ministry of Education, and the Education Departments of NSW, Queensland and the ACT. He is also lead Chief Investigator on the significant Plans to Pedagogy project building teacher spatial competency skills in schools across Australia and New Zealand.
Chris Bradbeer
Research Fellow, University of Melbourne and Associate Principal, Stonefields School, Auckland
Chris Bradbeer is a Research Fellow (part time), on The University of Melbourne’s Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change Project, an Associate Principal at Stonefields School in Auckland and Chair of Learning Environments Australasia, and currently completing a PhD focusing on the enactment of collaborative teacher practices in Innovative Learning Environments in New Zealand primary schools. When not focusing on the above he is section-hiking the Te Araroa trail through New Zealand and to date has reached Arthur’s Pass in the South Island.