Associate Professor Katherine Baldock (she/her) is a leader in higher education and academic practice. In her leadership roles, Katherine leads strategic approaches to academic development, including reimagining structural and cultural facilitators, to support the transformative education of graduates who are socially just, anti-racist, culturally responsive and who will contribute to creating a better world. Her current role as Associate Director: Teaching Innovation Unit provides Katherine the ideal platform to drive change in higher education structures and practices to that end. In this role she leads a large team of Lecturers in Academic Development and Learning Designers in the Academic Development... Read more
About me
Associate Professor Katherine Baldock (she/her) is a leader in higher education and academic practice. In her leadership roles, Katherine leads strategic approaches to academic development, including reimagining structural and cultural facilitators, to support the transformative education of graduates who are socially just, anti-racist, culturally responsive and who will contribute to creating a better world. Her current role as Associate Director: Teaching Innovation Unit provides Katherine the ideal platform to drive change in higher education structures and practices to that end. In this role she leads a large team of Lecturers in Academic Development and Learning Designers in the Academic Development portfolio, including approaches to curriculum design and development, academic professional learning, and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).
Katherine has a background in public health practice, research and teaching, and has led numerous initiatives in curriculum renewal at institutional and national levels. She led the development of two new public health programs at UniSA, including weaving the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework across the entire degree program. In recent years, Katherine has moved into strategic teaching and learning leadership roles within higher education. She has led numerous local and strategic initiatives to support the development of academics who are culturally responsive in their teaching practice and equipped to embed Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing within curricula and pedagogy. She co-created the Aboriginal curriculum and pedagogy mapping & decolonisation process (ACP) for UniSA with Dr Aidan Cornelius-Bell and Michael Watkins. Katherine now leads a team of Aboriginal and non-Indigenous academics in an institution-wide strategic relational approach to decolonising higher education and in developing systems and practices for the sustainable and transformative weaving of Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing within curricula and pedagogy across disciplines.
Alongside academic leadership, Katherine is an active researcher in educational initiatives as well as public health projects. She is an Associate Investigator on the NHMRC funded special initiative on human health and environmental change, Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL). Katherine collaborates nationally in research on: 1) teaching advocacy in public health curricula across Australia; 2) evaluating racial segregation in learning objectives within First Nations health courses; 3) development of academic capacity and responsiveness to decolonise curricula; 4) co-creation of a suite of online modules in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research methods and approaches. She is also principal/co-supervisor for several PhD and Masters by Research candidates, and has supervised 9 Higher Degree Research students to completion.
Katherine remains actively engaged in the public health agenda nationally. She is currently a Board Member on the Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia. In this role, Katherine leads the Education Quality and Standards working group, and within this, is leading the renewal of the public health graduate competencies through a co-design process. Katherine is also currently the Vice President of the South Australian Branch of the Public Health Association of Australia, providing senior advice and leadership in advocacy initiatives.
About me
Public Health Association of Australia
Australasian Epidemiological Association
International Epidemiological Association
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Bachelor of Health Sciences The University of Adelaide
Graduate Diploma in Public Health The University of Adelaide
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Citizen Science, Health and Wellbeing Project, Office for Ageing Well, 01/02/2020 - 18/03/2022
Identifying the impact of and outcomes from outdoor play amongst children in South Australia, SA Dept for Education and Children's Services, 01/01/2018 - 14/12/2018
Identifying the impact of and outcomes from outdoor play amongst children in South Australia, Department for Education, 2018-19
Activating Citizen Scientists, Office for Ageing Well, SA Health, 2018-19
Mozzie Monitors: mosquito traps in the home to improve health surveillance, UniSA Crowdfunding Scheme, 2018
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
Year | Output |
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2022 |
Open access
1
1
16
|
2022 |
Open access
2
1
12
|
2021 |
Open access
2
2
7
|
Year | Output |
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2023 |
|
2023 |
Open access
1
|
2023 |
6
|
2023 |
Open access
|
2022 |
Open access
1
1
16
|
2022 |
Open access
9
19
|
2022 |
Open access
3
2
65
|
2022 |
Open access
1
3
|
2022 |
Open access
2
1
12
|
2022 |
Open access
2
1
10
|
2022 |
2
2
56
|
2022 |
Open access
3
1
5
|
2022 |
Open access
7
5
25
|
2022 |
Open access
17
1006
|
2022 |
Open access
3
3
49
|
2021 |
5
|
2021 |
11
9
76
|
2021 |
Open access
2
2
7
|
2021 |
Open access
1
2
16
|
2020 |
37
27
94
|
2020 |
1
1
5
|
2020 |
Open access
76
53
150
|
2019 |
Open access
4
4
1
|
2019 |
Open access
2
3
|
2019 |
Open access
18
19
7
|
2019 |
10
10
|
2019 |
Open access
14
11
2
|
2019 |
Open access
3
2
1
|
2019 |
Open access
5
|
2018 |
Open access
14
11
4
|
2018 |
Open access
11
9
5
|
2012 |
Open access
29
20
|
2010 |
3
2
|
2010 |
26
25
|
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Ashford Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
Central Queensland University | AUSTRALIA |
Charles Darwin University | AUSTRALIA |
Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives | AUSTRALIA |
Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service | AUSTRALIA |
Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
Institute for Medical Research | MALAYSIA |
James Cook University | AUSTRALIA |
Macquarie University | AUSTRALIA |
Queen Elizabeth Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
South Australian Department of Health | AUSTRALIA |
St Pius X School | AUSTRALIA |
University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
University of Canberra | AUSTRALIA |
University of Melbourne | AUSTRALIA |
University of New South Wales | AUSTRALIA |
University of Newcastle | AUSTRALIA |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University Of South Carolina - Columbia | UNITED STATES |
University of Southern Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
University of Tasmania | AUSTRALIA |
University of Wollongong | AUSTRALIA |
Women's and Children's Hospital | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Executive Committee MemberCouncil of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia |
2021 |
Vice President (SA Branch)Public Health Association of Australia |
2020 |
Crowdfunded ResearchMozzie Monitors: mosquito traps in the home to improve health surveillance, Australian citizens, Government of South Australia, Government of Western Australia |
2018 |
Industry Funded ResearchActivating Citizen Scientists, Office of Ageing Well, SA Health |
2018 |
Senior Fellow (SFHEA)Higher Education Academy/Advance HE, United Kingdom |
2018 |
Associate FellowHigher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia |
2017 |
MemberPublic Health Association of Australia |
2017 |
MemberAustralasian Epidemiological Association (AEA) |
2017 |
MemberInternational Epidemiological Association |
2017 |
My teaching interests are broad, and cover a range of population health concepts and methods. I am particularly interested in:
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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Nature Play in Early Childhood Settings: Integrating Child Play Behaviours and Stakeholder Perspectives to Inform Consensus-Based Recommendations for Best Practice | Current |
The effect of changing adiposity on pain and functioning | Current |
Through their voices: An exploration of factors which influence mammography screening attendance amongst a population of Australian women at higher risk of breast cancer | Current |
`Weight-ing to Live¿: investigating the association between resistance training and all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease mortality and cancer mortality | Completed |
A mechanistic dengue simulation model for southern China: model calibration and economic evaluation of a control strategy | Completed |
Citizen science and public health: integrating this partnership into mosquito surveillance programs | Completed |
Exploring the links between chronic stress, allostatic load, and osteoarthritis | Completed |
Factors that contribute to high quality clinical supervision of allied health professionals | Completed |
Get outside, play and grow: exploring the impacts of nature play on early childhood development and the reliability of play observations | Completed |
Helicobacter pylori infection over time in Australia: an investigation of prevalence, persistence and eradication | Completed |
Nature-based play and learning in South Australian public primary schools | Completed |