About

A/Professor Jaclyn Broadbent is the inaugural Pro-Vice Chancellor (Sessional Academic Experience) at Deakin University and leads a program of work related to the sessional academic environment as the senior academic lead of initiatives to improve and enhance the experience of sessional academic staff working at Deakin. The position provides high-level strategic and specialist advice to members of the University Executive, Senior Leaders, University Council, and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic on sessional academic staff experience matters to support opportunities for priority action and university-wide improvement.

As Deputy Head of School, she is responsible for providing strategic guidance to the Head of School, managing the workloads of 160 staff, acting for the HoS at high-level meetings and leading all accreditation efforts. Previously, Jaclyn was the Associate Head of School (Teaching & Learning), for six years, responsible for the continuous quality improvement in teaching and learning within the School of Psychology. She has been the Course Director for five courses within the School. She is heavily involved in course revisions, course discontinuations, and developing new courses. Jaclyn has previously been course director for the School's suite of Honours programs, one of Australia's largest on- and off-campus Honours psychology programs (n > 300 students).

Jaclyn has cross-discipline expertise and publishes in two FoR codes (39 Education and 52 Psychology). She has several highly cited publications (>100+ citations) and five journal articles with a Field-Weighted Citation Impact of 4.9 or above. Jaclyn’s primary research focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning with particular emphasis on (1) The role of self-regulation in the learning process (especially for online learning), (2) Determinants of student success, engagement, and retention, (3) Leveraging of feedback and other online technologies to ensure positive student outcomes even in large cohort settings, and (4) Feedback and evaluative judgment in learning. Jaclyn also has an interest in Health behaviour change, including the application of health behaviour change principles to improve healthy lifestyle choices in the general population as well as at-risk groups. Despite her high teaching and service load, her research output relative to opportunity is excellent and shows a clear upward trajectory. As a CI, she has $2.2 million in research funding in category 1, national, international and internal grants/tenders. She has 58 articles and book chapters and has achieved 6700+ citations, an H-index of 29 and i10 index of 40 (Google Scholar). She has been named as ranked among the world's top 2% of scientists by Stanford University/Elsevier for the single years of 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 (released in late 2023) and ranked in the world's top 2% of scientists for career-long achievement in 2022.

A/Professor Broadbent has a strong understanding of policy and procedure at the university level and applies this in serving on relevant committees and liaising with senior T&L management to influence governance, standards, and strategic direction. For example, Jaclyn serves on the University Course Standards Committee and contributes to monitoring, reviewing and advising on academic standards and quality of courses and their compliance with the Higher Education Standards Framework for courses from all areas of the University. As Chair of the Academic Board (independent member) and College Council member (independent member) at ISN Psychology, my role focuses on overseeing the quality and integrity of ISN academic programs. This includes approving new courses and changes to existing ones, monitoring student results and scholarships, and ensuring high standards in teaching and research. I oversee the development and review of academic policies, maintaining student academic integrity, and overseeing research activities. I aim to ensure that ISN's academic offerings remain rigorous, relevant, and aligned with accreditation standards. I also report to the College Council on behalf of the Academic Board.

Jaclyn is passionate about delivering high-quality, challenging and supportive learning experiences for students and has implemented a range of innovative, engaging and student-oriented teaching practices. A/Professor Broadbent provides synchronous and asynchronous learning activities that ensure all students can learn effectively. Jaclyn has won several awards for her teaching, including the highly competitive Australian Award for University Teachers (2016) and Australian National Learning and Teaching Citation for outstanding contribution to student learning (2011), both awarded to her by the Australian Government, a Desire2Learn Teaching Impact award (2014) and Vice Chancellor's award for Deakin University Teacher of the year twice (2016; 2021). She is a Senior Fellow in the Higher Education Academy.