Alison L Hilton EdD

Alison Hilton is the Academic Chair for the Bachelor of Education (Secondary) at Murdoch University. She is a Lecturer with a focus on initial teacher education.

Alison's primary areas of teaching expertise and interest lie in adult learning and facilitation, experiential learning/professional practice and student wellbeing and success.

Alison is an Early Career Researcher with a focus on educational leadership and exploring contemporary issues and tensions within education. Alison's research is pragmatic and the output is equally accessible to those in the world of academia, as well as to the wider audience of para-professionals and lay readers.

Since qualifying in 2003 as a secondary school teacher in WA, Alison has worked across a range of instructional and management roles in the education & training sector. These have included the development and delivery of teacher professional development at district high schools and secondary schools, and similar training for instructional staff at TAFE, private Registered Training Organisations, and within federal and state government departments. Much of Alison's educational career has focused on training management, training design, analysis and accreditation of training programs.

In 2017, I successfully completed the Certificate for Teaching and Learning, obtaining entry into the Higher Education Academy as a Fellow.

Alison has worked at Murdoch University since 2012, initially in a professional staffing role providing student support to undergraduate students in the Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) Award Winning First Year Advisor Network.

Alison's previous research work includes first year student success, including the identification of at-risk student cohorts. Alison's professional Doctoral Thesis addresses student and stakeholder experiences of LANTITE (literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher educators).