Merilyn Childs

Merilyn Childs is Associate Professor of Higher Education and Deputy Director of the Flexible Learning Institute at Charles Sturt University. Prior to this role she was Director of the Centre for Learning and Social Transformation at the University of Western Sydney, where she developed national and international research projects that explored the gendered nature of the Australian emergency services, the economic and social participation of migrants and refugees in public sector employment, and educational design that responds to mature aged learners within higher education. Dr Childs has published extensively in the field of workbased and prior learning. She has won numerous awards, including an Edna Ryan Award for improving the working conditions of female fire fighters (2005) and was mentioned in the Who’s Who of Australian Women Leaders in 2008. Dr Childs is in the final year of an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (Wiggins, Childs & Fogarty) and is co-editing the first book in Australia on the Recognition of Prior Learning in Australian Higher Education. She is a member of the International Visual Sociology Association and the St James’ Ethics Society.

Publications

Beyond The Look: Viral Learning Spaces as Contemporary Learning Environments
Beyond The Look: Viral Learning Spaces as Contemporary Learning Environments
Merilyn Childs, Regine Wagner. © 2012. 18 pages.
In this chapter, the authors argue that a disjuncture has emerged between the look of learning spaces within learning spaces discourse, definitions of learning spaces, and the...
Foreword
Foreword
Merilyn Childs. © 2010. 3 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Interaction in Communication Technologies and Virtual Learning Environments: Human Factors.