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Senior Lecturer
Centre for Education and Innovation
Areas of expertise: Pedagogy; reflective practice; gender; curriculum development; educational policy
Email: Vikki.Pollard@acu.edu.au
Phone: 03 9230 8580
Location: ACU Melbourne Campus
HDR Supervisor accreditation status: HDR Supervisor (Provisional)
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2209-1199
Vikki Pollard is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Education and Innovation at the Australian Catholic University. Her research sits at the intersection of psychoanalysis, pedagogy, and contemporary higher-education practice. Her scholarship focuses on how forms of knowledge emerge, what interrupts habitual modes of thinking, and how educators can cultivate spaces that support reflective, ethical, and transformative learning.
Dr Pollard has extensive experience in teaching, with particular expertise in reflective practice, professional identity formation, and the affective dimensions of learning. She brings a theoretically rich accessible approach, drawing on psychoanalytic theory, philosophy, and critical pedagogy.
Dr Pollard is an active contributor to academic discourse through conference presentations, collaborative projects, and ongoing research initiatives. She is committed to bridging theoretical insight with practical application, working with educators and practitioners to design learning environments that are intellectually demanding, emotionally attuned, and responsive to the complex realities of professional practice.
Pollard, V., & Armatas, C. (2025). Feedback is integral: Using a revised ICAP framework to achieve active learning in an asynchronous online course. Online Learning Journal, 29(3), 236–254.
Pollard, V. (2025). Desiring the PhD. In: Tsolidis, G. (eds) Navigating Unconventional Doctoral Journeys. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85852-9_6
Pollard, V., & Vincent, A. (2022). Micro-credentials: A postdigital counternarrative. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00311-6
Hains-Wesson, R., Pollard, V., Kaider, F., & Young, K. (2019). STEM academic teachers’ experiences of undertaking authentic assessment-led reform: A mixed method approach. Studies in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1593350
Pollard, V., Hains-Wesson, R., Young, K. (2017). Creative teaching in STEM, Teaching in Higher Education, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2017.1379487
Featured in The Australian, Higher Education Supplement, 4/10/2017
MyKong, K. & Pollard, V. (2017). A modest critical pedagogy for English as a Foreign Language teaching, Education as change, 21 (1), pp31-49.
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