I am currently a PhD student at the University of Sydney, having returned to formal education after working in management consulting in healthcare in Africa and the Middle East, immigrating to Australian, and raising a family.
My PhD draws on research in anthropology, archaeology, architecture and the learning sciences and through it I hope to open a window onto an unusual learning network in which teaching and learning practice is an intricate daily act - of balancing people, pedagogy and place.
Conducted as ethnography my focus has been to explore the relationships between learning activity and learning environment and I have had the good fortune to apply what I am learning in two other projects:
1) As a member of the ARC Laureate Fellowship team I have worked on a project that explores the multimodal analysis of learning by design tasks in a purpose built design studio.
2) As a member of a team conducting pre and post occupancy evaluations of new interdisciplinary, research and teaching facilities at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney.
My PhD draws on research in anthropology, archaeology, architecture and the learning sciences and through it I hope to open a window onto an unusual learning network in which teaching and learning practice is an intricate daily act - of balancing people, pedagogy and place.
Conducted as ethnography my focus has been to explore the relationships between learning activity and learning environment and I have had the good fortune to apply what I am learning in two other projects:
1) As a member of the ARC Laureate Fellowship team I have worked on a project that explores the multimodal analysis of learning by design tasks in a purpose built design studio.
2) As a member of a team conducting pre and post occupancy evaluations of new interdisciplinary, research and teaching facilities at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney.
I blog intermittently at http://pippayeoman.wordpress.com, and tweet slightly more regularly @PippaYeoman.