Tammy Coleman-Zweck

Lecturer (Teaching Specialist (Acad))

College of Business, Government and Law

place Law & Commerce

Tammy Coleman-Zweck is a Kokatha/Greek Lecturer in the College of Business, Law and Government at Flinders University, South Australia. Her career spans more than thirty years, as an educator, curriculum designer, counsellor, researcher, policy and strategy writer.  She has engaged in the creative industries businesses and mixed entrepreneurships as a food blogger, script writer, content creator and film producer.

Tammy has taught across a broad range of learning areas including Tourism, Food, Design and Technology, Aboriginal Studies, and managed Entrepreneurship and Innovation programs.

Her cross disciplinary research areas include placemaking, critical pedagogy of place, Indigenous place-based theory and practice, within South Australia’s colonial architecture and social history.  Tammy is passionate about student centred teaching and learning, graduate employment, Indigenous informed and led strategy, policy and enterprises, as well as intergenerational and lifelong learning.

Qualifications

Master of Philosophy (Education), Topic: A culturally responsive pedagogy of place for the study of colonial buildings in South Australia, University of Adelaide, in progress

Bachelor of Psychological Science, University of South Australia, 2015

Graduate Diploma of Social Science (Counselling), University of South Australia, 2009

Bachelor of Secondary Family and Community Studies, University of South Australia, 1992

Honours, awards and grants

2024               Finalist, SA Screen Awards and nominee for the Venus Shorts LA and Denver Indie Film Festival for the short, coming of age Auslan film, Black Time, White Time

2016               Faculty of Arts Prize for Teaching Excellence, University of Adelaide

2016               Finalist, Gladys Elphick Awards, Quiet Achiever category

2106               Finalist, Pride of Australia Medal (Inspiration category) for excellence and passion in teaching and achieving quality educational outcomes with vulnerable Indigenous young people

Topic coordinator
BUSN3073 Engaging with Industry