Dr Margaret Becker is an Online Course Facilitator in Public Health at UniSA Online. As an OCF, Margaret is responsible for leading the development and delivery of teaching for UniSA Online students. Her role involves working closely with divisional staff at UniSA to provide high-quality online teaching to undergraduate students, and to coordinate the day-to-day activities of online tutoring staff.
Margaret is a social anthropologist with an interest in gender, critical development, women's empowerment, and health. She is passionate about rights and social justice. Margaret's PhD focused on women's development programs in Kathmandu, Nepal, where she undertook 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork working with women's organisations to... Read more
About me
Dr Margaret Becker is an Online Course Facilitator in Public Health at UniSA Online. As an OCF, Margaret is responsible for leading the development and delivery of teaching for UniSA Online students. Her role involves working closely with divisional staff at UniSA to provide high-quality online teaching to undergraduate students, and to coordinate the day-to-day activities of online tutoring staff.
Margaret is a social anthropologist with an interest in gender, critical development, women's empowerment, and health. She is passionate about rights and social justice. Margaret's PhD focused on women's development programs in Kathmandu, Nepal, where she undertook 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork working with women's organisations to understand women's understandings and experiences of 'empowerment'. Margaret is currently involved in research projects within South Australia that focus on social justice and inequities, including older women and housing, and regional business recovery from disaster. She brings her research experience to her teaching role.
Margaret has extensive teaching experience as a lecturer, course coordinator, mentor and tutor in online and on-campus delivery formats. Margaret has significant experience working with Aboriginal students as an academic mentor. She is passionate about student learning and the acquisition of knowledge and skills and their translation to real world contexts.
About me
About me
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Adelaide
First Class Honours in Anthropology The University of Adelaide
Bachelor of Arts The University of Adelaide
2015 Wang Gungwu Prize for best Asian Studies Review article
Becker, M., Blythman, T., Adams, C. (2023). ‘How to create an online public health capstone course for workforce readiness’. CAPHIA Teaching and Learning Forum: The future of Public Health Education, University of South Australia.
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 or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2021 |
2
3
2
|
| 2015 |
Open access
9
8
6
|
Becker, M., Blythman, T., Adams, C. (2023). ‘How to create an online public health capstone course for workforce readiness’. CAPHIA Teaching and Learning Forum: The future of Public Health Education, University of South Australia.
Burley, K., Becker, M., Dodd, A. (2022). ‘Students as co-designers of peer assessment criteria in online teambased learning’. UniSA Teaching and Learning Symposium, University of South Australia.
Fopp D, Abadia R, Le Busque B, Kamineni R, Becker M (2021) The Importance of Teaching with Empathy and Kindness is a Fully Online Environment: A Collective Case Study, University of South Australia Teaching and Learning Symposium, Adelaide.
Research
2015 Wang Gungwu Prize for best Asian Studies Review article
Becker, M., Blythman, T., Adams, C. (2023). ‘How to create an online public health capstone course for workforce readiness’. CAPHIA Teaching and Learning Forum: The future of Public Health Education, University of South Australia.
Becker, M. (2022). ‘Critical perspectives on global health: a snapshot of Nepal’. Keynote address, UniSA Public Health Student Conference: The future of Public Health, University of South Australia.
External engagement & recognition
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
Panel ChairWomen in Asia Biennial Conference, University of New South Wales |
2019 |
Mountford AwardThe University of Adelaide |
2017 |
Wirltu Yarlu Aboriginal Education Tutor of the YearThe University of Adelaide |
2017 |
Panel Chair21st Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Australian National University |
2016 |
Wang Gungwu PrizeAsian Studies Review |
2016 |
Trust Fund BursaryAustralian Federation of University Women (SA) |
2015 |
2017 Wirltu Yarlu Tutor and Mentor of the Year, Wirltu Yarlu Aboriginal Education, University of Adelaide
Teaching & student supervision