Keith Trigwell

Keith Trigwell is a retired honorary Professor of Higher Education at the University of Sydney. He was Director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning (ITL) at the University of Sydney and before that at the Oxford Centre for Excellence in Preparing for Academic Practice, a Fellow of Kellogg College and Reader in Higher Education at the University of Oxford. His research interests include investigating qualitative differences in university teaching and students’ learning experiences, teaching-research relations and the scholarship of teaching, including development of the Approaches to Teaching Inventory. This work has yielded more than 100 journal articles, conference papers and books, including Understanding Learning and Teaching: The Experience in Higher Education, which summarises 10 years of research with Professor Michael Prosser. He is a former co-president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and in 2010 received a Lifetime Achievement Award (Leadership) from the Society. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Lund University, Sweden in 2016 and recently was awarded Life Member of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.