CSEdX 2026 will feature a keynote panel bringing together respected voices in higher education to explore the connections that bring teaching, people and community together.
Associate Professor at the Monash Education Academy, Monash University
Tim Fawns is Associate Professor at the Monash Education Academy, Monash University, Australia. Tim’s research interests are at the intersection between digital, clinical and higher education, with a particular focus on the relationship between technology and educational practice.
Tim’s research covers a broad range of educational practices (including curriculum design, assessment, teaching practice, evaluation and more).
Kelly Matthews is an internationally respected scholar whose research spans the student experience, teaching-focused academic identity and belonging, the scholarship of teaching and learning, curriculum development, and most recently students’ experiences of AI in higher education. She has authored more than 150 publications with over 100 keynote and invited addresses.
Her leadership has been recognised through Principal Fellowship of Advance HE, an Australian Learning and Teaching Fellowship, commissioned work for the Higher Education Standards Panel, and multiple teaching and leadership awards. Kelly holds a PhD in Higher Education and has worked across professional staff and academic roles in student support and teaching.
Kelly is the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Teaching & Learning at the University of Wollongong. She has served as Vice-President of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and held editorial roles, including Higher Education Research & Development and as founding editor of the International Journal for Students as Partners.
Her work is guided by a commitment to higher education as a public good and to building institutions where students and staff can thrive through trust, partnership and shared purpose.
Professor Kelly Matthews, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Teaching & Learning), Educational Excellence, University of Wollongong
Associate Professor in Accounting at UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
Amanda White is Associate Professor in Accounting at UTS Business School, where she has spent two decades experimenting relentlessly in the classroom to support the complex lives of her students – engaging asynchronous learning experiences, open (free) textbooks, care as a strategy, peer mentoring and cultivating parasocial relationships to name a few.
She presents her authentic neurodivergent self to her learning community and constructs experiences to support all learners. Her commitment to student learning has been recognised with an AAUT Citation, Teaching Excellence Award and induction into the Order of Australia.
Professor Benny Wilson is a Jagera man who has worked in the tertiary sector since 2015. His expertise includes Indigenising the curriculum, assisting non-Indigenous academic colleagues to embed Indigenous ways of knowing into their units, and the intersection between narrative and place-based education systems. He has worked as a coach, teacher, facilitator, and consultant across a range of institutions and schools since 2007. Throughout his academic career, he has worked on ARC projects connected to both Indigenous education and Indigenous health. His current research explores place-based narrative as an Aboriginal epistemology and its application for modern education systems.
In 2022, Benny was named ACT Scholar of the Year in 2022 at the ACT NAIDOC Awards. In 2023, he was awarded the Neville Bonner Award for Indigenous Education at the Australian Awards for University Teaching for his significant contribution to higher education. In 2025 he and his colleagues started the Country as Teacher Practitioners Network which links educators from across NSW and the ACT in their journeys teaching students how to relate with Country.
Professor Benny Wilson, Indigenous Education, University of Technology Sydney