Work Integrated Learning: Authors

Leoni Russell, RMIT University & Friederika Kaider, Deakin University

Leoni Russell is a Senior Educational Advisor, Learning and Teaching within Careers & Employability at RMIT. Her multi-sector experience includes teaching, policy and curriculum development, and managing university-wide teaching and learning projects and resource development. She provides academic educational support to build staff capability across a range of educational strategies, including Work Integrated Learning (WIL) and employability. She has developed and implemented policy and supporting procedures to assist staff and students in their WIL and career development learning initiatives.

Friederika Kaider has spent the last decade and a half as an academic in Australian universities, with a particular interest in WIL. She has taught WIL courses in Australia and offshore, helped develop strategic university-wide WIL implementation plans, been instrumental in developing operational tools for WIL, worked with academics to apply them in their own courses, and has undertaken research in the field. She has been active in WIL communities of practice and committees at the university, state and national levels, and is currently Chair of the WIL@Deakin group at Deakin University, and a member of the Victoria-Tasmania ACEN State Committee.