Associate Professor Lisa Schmidt

Academic Status

College of Medicine and Public Health

+61 8 7221 8898

lisa.schmidt@flinders.edu.au

Flinders Medical Centre

GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Associate Professor Lisa Schmidt has degrees in theoretical physics, applied mathematics, biological sciences and education. Her PhD was in cancer research and while in Medical Biotechnology she worked on a number of industry-linked research projects and coordinated the degree program. While working in academic development, Lisa focused on assessment and curriculum, especially in the sciences. She has previously been part of the leadership team of the medical degree and is a former Dean (Education) for the College.

Lisa has academic status with the College and continues to research and supervise students in the area of education. Her current role is as Executive Director for Lutheran Education Australia.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons), BSc(Hons), GradCertEd(Higher Ed), PhD

GAICD

Honours, awards and grants

Awards
2009 Faculty Executive Dean's Teaching Excellence Award

Member of Flinders' College of Distinguished Educators

Recent Grants

Lisa Schmidt, Maxine Moore, Lambert Schuwirth, Iris Lindemann, Laura Spencer, Wendy Hu, Carlos El-Haddad, Jordan Li (2016-2017) Australian Collaborative Education Network, “Putting the trust into assessing work integrated learning: Developing a process for embedding Entrustable Professional Activities as an authentic form of assessing work integrated learning”

Lisa Schmidt, Lambert Schuwirth & Maree O'Keefe (2014-16) Office for Learning & Teaching, "Better Judgement 2: improving assessors' management of factors affecting their judgement."

Dawn Bennett, Philip MacKinnon, Charlotte Brack, Phil Poronnik, Lisa Schmidt, Robin King, Sarah Richardson, Marian Thakur, Hamish Coates, Doug McCurry (2014-2015) Australian Government Office for Learning & Teaching “How universities can best support students to develop generic skills: Enacting strategies for graduate employability.”

Melissa Brown, Debbie Charter, David Bain, Lisa Schmidt (2013-2014) Flinders Teaching and Learning Innovation Grants. “Looking Back and Feeding Forward to Build Laboratory Practical Skills”.

Lisa Schmidt & Lambert Schuwirth (2012) Office for Learning & Teaching, "Better Judgement: improving assessors' management of factors affecting their judgement."

Lisa Schmidt, Ian Menz, Andrew Millington, John Roddick, Joe Shapter (2012) Flinders Teaching and Learning Innovation Grants, "Finding common ground in the Faculty of Science & Engineering: innovation in the area of internationalisation of the curriculum"

Wei Zhang, Ken Lang, Chris Franco, Lisa Schmidt, Chris Sentance, Raymond Tham, Fiona Young (2009-2011) Meat & Livestock Association of Australia, "Production of bioactives using in vitro culture of cells from organs sourced from the meat processing industry - Phase 2"