Carolyn Rickett. Photo: Aaron Bellette

Carolyn Rickett, Senior Lecturer in Communication in Avondale’s School of Humanities and Creative Arts, has been awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching Council citation for outstanding contribution to student learning. The award, presented at the Sydney Opera House in August 2011, includes a prize of $10,000 to be used to advance Carolyn’s career, provide resources for her teaching, and assist her to disseminate good practice in learning and teaching.

One example of Carolyn Rickett’s innovative work was her collaboration with Sydney University lecturer Judith Beveridge to publish a poetry anthology, Wording the World, combining poems by Carolyn’s creative writing students with poems by leading Australian writers. The book was published by Puncher and Wattmann with a cover designed by students in Avondale’s design studio class. Students in the print journalism class reported the launch.

Two other Avondale staff members, Dr Darren Morton and Associate Professor Daniel Reynaud, have previously been awarded Australian Learning and Teaching Council citations for outstanding contributions to learning and teaching.

Brenton Stacey

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Brenton Stacey

Brenton is Avondale University’s Public Relations and Philanthropy Officer. He brings to the role experience as a communicator in publishing, media relations, public relations, radio and television, mostly within the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific and its entities.