BA (Open), MA (Sus), DipTeach (Lond), AGSM (Guild)

Senior Lecturer
Academic area: Education and Creative Arts

Telephone: +61 2 9514 3461
Email: Kate.Collier@uts.edu.au
Room: CB10.5.543
Campus: City - CB10 Building

Kate Collier is a Senior Lecturer and Program Director of the Graduate Diploma and Certificate courses in Adult Education on the Markets campus.

She began her career as a drama and theatre arts specialist but has subsequently been involved in adult education in the tertiary sector both in Australia and the UK, for the past fifteen years.

Teaching Areas:
Kate teaches a range of subjects including Adult Teaching and Learning, Interpersonal Communication including Group/Team development, Experience-based learning and Cultural Action. She also teaches drama on the Kuringai campus.

Research Areas:
Examining the links between adult education theory and practice and drama in education and theatre arts. Kate is particularly interested in how this relates to the use of role-play in adult education and how it can be used safely as an effective learning strategy. She is currently developing a new model of role-play for adult education based on Jonathan Neelands’ ‘Drama Structures’.(1991). Her chief focus is on how drama form can be used to develop participants’ involvement and identification with the role-play situation and also encourage critical distance for reflective learning.

Using drama as a strategy for cultural action and is researching how the work of theatre practioners such as Augusto Boal and Bertold Brecht can be used in adult educational practice.

How dramatherapy theory and practice could be relevant to a better understanding of the affective aspects of learning and how these can be productively utilised in adult education.

Committee member of the Australian Consortium of Experiential Education and editor of their Journal, ‘The Australian Journal of Experiential Education’. Voluntary educational consultant for Lifeline, Sydney.


Consultant to many organisations including: - South Sydney Health Authority, Australian Film School, NSW Needle Users and Aids Association, the Art Gallery of NSW, State Rail, Streets Ice Cream and the Australian Defence Industry.

Publications:
Collier, K.(1999) ‘Once More with Feeling: identification, representation and the affective aspects of role-play in adult education’ in the International Simulation and Gaming Research Yearbook 1998, edited Walsh, P. London: Kogan Page.

Collier, K.(1998) ‘Finding a Forum for Role-play in Adult Education’ in the International Simulation and Gaming Research Yearbook 1999, edited by Saunders, D. London: Kogan Page.

Collier, K.(1996) ‘The Card Sorting Game:exploring the role of perception in communication’ in the Australian Journal of Experiential Education, No.35 pp.2-3.

Collier, K (1995) ‘Wall Crash: building trust in experiential learning’ in the Australian Journal of Experiential Education’, No. 33 pp.4

Collier, K.(1994) ‘Ways into Role-play’ in A Quarterly Experience, No. 32 pp.37-3.

In Press:

Collier, K. ‘Dramatic Changes: Re-Structuring Role-play Practice in Adult Education’. To be published in the International Simulation and Gaming Yearbook 2000, edited by Saunders, D. London: Kogan Page.