Dr Michelle Guerin

Research focus

Highlights

Dr Guerin is passionate about positively impacting health care and improving health outcomes, particularly for those that are vulnerable in our health care system.  

Dr Guerin is currently collaborating with Relationships Australia South Australia to co-lead a key project into the development and evaluation of a trauma-informed training package for Australian counsellors to support them to collaborate therapeutically with individuals living with disability, their families and carers. 

Dr Guerin currently has an interprofessional collaborations with the University of Sydney investigating the properties of a standardised tool (Evaluation of Foundational Placement Competencies tool) for assessing... Read more

Teaching strengths

• Simulation-based Allied Health Training
• Technology Enhanced Teaching and Learning
• Evidence-informed Teaching
• Authentic Assessment
• Interprofessional Practice

Highlights

Dr Guerin is an educator for various courses within the Allied Health and Human Performance Unit across undergraduate and postgraduate programs.

Dr Guerin currently is the course coordinator for - Advanced Physiotherapy Practice B (REHB 4050), Advanced Physiotherapy Practice - Acute and Rehabilitation (REHB 6019), Ethics and Communication (REHB 4034), and Physiotherapy Practice with Older Adults (REHB 2012).  Dr Guerin’s student evaluation of teaching (SET) scores are consistently in the top quartile of university-wide scores. 

As a result, Dr Guerin has been recognised by both students and peers with two recent awards in 2022. ‘Commendation for Sustained Excellence in Teaching Award’ and an ‘Allied Health and Human Performance Staff Recognition Award’. 

Qualitative student feedback also highlights her teaching impact. Examples of verbatim student feedback include:

• “Michelle was absolutely fantastic! She was so incredibly approachable and open to help us whenever we need. We were able to come to her with any issues, even outside the course and no matter what they were always actioned and followed through. Michelle has so much knowledge and conveyed it to us every session, providing us with knowledge of her experience that is applicable in the real world. She is very hands on in her teaching and feedback, every session I walked away with plenty of new information that I understood completely. If there was ever a time where we did not understand something, Michelle was able to read these and made sure to revisit this topic until she ensured the whole class understood the concept, I really appreciated this because she wasn't just teaching, she was ensuring we were learning and I think this was exceptional. Overall, Michelle was incredibly enthusiastic about what she was teaching us and this really shone through in her classes, making the sessions interesting and keeping us engaged even towards the end of the semester. Thank you Michelle, you were fantastic and I thoroughly enjoyed learning from you this semester.” (student, 2022)
•  “Michelle, you are an absolutely amazing educator and mentor.” (student, 2021)
•  “Michelle is incredibly passionate and thorough in her teaching. As she is actively working as a physiotherapist, I feel she brings current knowledge and approaches to best practice. She also has an incredible range of tips and information to facilitate learning and improve student skills.” (student, 2021)
•  ‘Michelle was able to relate really well with students, particularly with content that can be a little dry, she was able to recognise this and teach in a way that made it engaging, relatable and interesting, with great real-life examples’ (student, 2022)
•  “Michelle is honestly the best educator I have met in Uni, she is just brilliant.  Calm natured, lovely and so very helpful.  She explains things clearly and is always available for zoom to have a chat, she made us feel like she has so much time for us and no questions were dumb.  Thank you, Michelle” (student)