Dr Chelsea Avard

Dr Chelsea Avard
 Position Manager, Student Academic Skills
 Org Unit Employability, Careers and Student Academic Skills
 Email chelsea.avard@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone +61 8 8313 8192
 Mobile +61 4 6860 6930
 Location Floor/Room 3 ,  Barr Smith South ,   North Terrace

  • Biography/ Background

    Chelsea is Manager of the Student Academic Skills team, in the Employability, Careers and Student Academic Skills unit, which operates under the Director of Student Experience, and exists to support and enable students to engage successfully with their coursework. Student Academic Skills is home to the staff and volunteers of the Maths Learning Centre, Writing Centre, Peer Learning Programs, including Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS), Academic Integrity Skills and the coordinator of Student Voice Australia. Before joining the team in 2017, Chelsea taught in the Humanities and Social Sciences at The University of Adelaide and Flinders University, specialising in Creative Writing and English Literature. 

    Chelsea completed a PhD in the English Department at Adelaide University in 2010, with a thesis consisting of a novel and exegesis exploring ekphrastic fiction. She is currently Convenor of the Student Voice Australia Operational Group, and co-faciltiator of the Student Leadership Programs Community of Practice.  

  • Qualifications

    PhD, University of Adelaide 2010

    BA Honours (1st Class), University of Adelaide 2003

     

  • Awards & Achievements

    Winner - Division of Academic and Student Engagement Outstanding Leader Award 2022

    Winner - Division of Academic and Student Engagement Outstanding Leader Award 2018

    Recipient - Learning Enhancement and Innovation Grant 2018

    Winner - Verandah Literary Award 2017

  • Teaching Interests

    Creative Writing; English Literature; Academic English; Gender and Social Sciences; Politically intersectional approaches to pedagogy;

  • Research Interests

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  • Publications

     

    'Blue Eyes'; 'How We Stay'. Well Versed. PBAFM. 19 Feb 2019.

    'How We Stay'. Spring Shorts. Quart Short Collective. 30 Oct 2018.

    'Tight Shorts #92: Only One Thing Connects These Moments '. Tight Shorts on Morning Juice. Radio Adelaide 101.5. 19 Nov 2017.

    'Blue Eyes'. TEXT. October 2017. 21.2. 

    'How We Stay'. Verandah 32. Ed. Courtney Carland, Sophia Desiatov, Emma Taylor and Julija Zivanovic. 2017. 29-30.

    'Things and the Natural World'. Crush: Stories About Love. Ed. Simone Corletto, Amy T Matthews, Jess Miller and Lynette Washington. Adelaide: Midnight Sun, 2017. 183-184.

    'One Last Carrier Pigeon'. Press: 100 Love Letters. Ed. Laurel Fantauzzo and Francesca Rendle-Short. Quezon City: University of Phillipines Press, 2017. 38.

    'Thanks for Asking'. Press: 100 Love Letters. Ed. Laurel Fantauzzo and Francesca Rendle-Short. Quezon City: University of Phillipines Press, 2017. 26.

    'Poor Little Thing'. Red Fez. 2017. <https://www.redfez.net/poetry/bird-poor-little-thing-2523>.

    'Nothing Simple: the impossible object in Alex Miller's The Sitters'. Border Crossings. Ed. Glenn, Diana and Graham Tulloch. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2016. 167-180.

    'Efficiency'. Verity La. 2015. <http://verityla.com/efficiency-chelsea-avard/>

    'Reasons for Green'. On Edge. Ed. Christy Di Frances, Susan Errington, Rachel Hennessy and Emmett Stinson. Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2005. 38-41.

    'Cause and Effect'. The Sleepers Almanac 2005: The Deathbed Challenge. Ed. Louise Swinn and Zoe Dattner. Carlton: Sleepers Publishing, 2005. 29-34.

    'Hungry Women'. The Body: An Anthology. Ed. Henry Ashley-Brown, Chelsea Avard, Amy T Matthews and Stephanie Thomson. Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2004. 170.

    Ashley-Brown, Henry, Chelsea Avard, Amy T Matthews and Stephanie Thomson, eds. The Body: An Anthology. Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2004.

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Entry last updated: Thursday, 30 Mar 2023

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