STAFF PROFILE
Emeritus Professor Andrea Chester
Position:
Emeritus Professor
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
Email:
andrea.chester@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Bundoora East
Contact me about:
Research supervision
- Building resilience: developing a resilience toolkit for employability in built environment graduates: Administered by University of Newcastle. Funded by: Department of Education and Training Victoria Research Grant 2016 from (2016 to 2017)
- Producing sustainability professionals: Assessing graduate attributes in sustainability. Funded by: Office for Learning and Teaching Grant 2015 from (2015 to 2017)
- The Global Canopy: linking international inbound students with domestic outbound students for improved learning and global connections. Funded by: Office for Learning and Teaching Grant 2014 from (2014 to 2016)
- Developing a Course Handover Tool to support new Course Coordinators. Administered by the University of South Australia.. Funded by: DIICCSRTE Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) Research Contracts from (2014 to 2015)
- Transition in, transition out (TiTo): Peer mentoring for sustainable development of first and third year psychology students. Funded by: Australian Learning & Teaching Council from (2011 to 2013)
11 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions
Learning and teaching scholarship: peer observation of teaching, student peer mentoring, pedagogy, digital learning; online psychological interventions.
- Badoer, E.,Hollings, Y.,Chester, A. (2021). Professional networking for undergraduate students: a scaffolded approach In: Journal of Further and Higher Education, 45, 197 - 210
- Arrow, K.,Yap, K.,Chester, A. (2021). Group climate in online group cognitive behaviour therapy predicts treatment outcomes In: Clinical Psychologist, 25, 153 - 163
- Brigden, C.,Fricker, A.,Johnson, R.,Chester, A. (2020). Speaking Together: Reflections on Reconciliation, Yarning Circles, and Signature Pedagogies In: Tertiary Education in a Time of Change, Springer, Singapore
- Saunders, P.,Chester, A.,Xenos, S. (2020). University student peer tutoring: A pilot program to improve learning for both tutors and tutees In: Championing cutting-edge 21st century mentoring and learning models and approaches, Brill Sense, Netherlands
- Nguyen, L.,Chester, A.,Herbert, A.,Lugg, A. (2020). First year transition through a cultural lens: Face strategies of Vietnamese students. In: Student Success, 11, 82 - 90
- Johnston, A.,Baik, C.,Chester, A. (2020). Peer review of teaching in Australian higher education: a systematic review In: Higher Education Research & Development, 41, 390 - 404
- Holdsworth, S.,Thomas, I.,Sandri, O.,Chester, A.,McLaughlin, T. (2019). Producing sustainability professionals: Assessing graduate attributes in sustainability In: Producing sustainability professionals: Assessing graduate attributes in sustainability Canberra, Australia
- Chester, A.,Johnston, A.,Clarke, A. (2019). Partnerships for Learning and Belonging in Tertiary Education: A Social Capital Analysis In: Transformations in Tertiary Education, Springer, Singapore
- Holdsworth, S.,Sandri, O.,Thomas, I.,Wong, P.,Chester, A.,McLaughlin, T. (2019). The assessment of graduate sustainability attributes in the workplace: Potential advantages of using the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) In: Journal of Cleaner Production, 238, 1 - 10
- Holdsworth, S.,Sandri, O.,Thomas, I.,Wong, S.,Chester, A.,McLaughlin, P. (2019). The use of the theory of planned behaviour to assess graduate attributes for sustainability In: Environmental Education Research, 26, 275 - 295