Fiona Peterson is an Australian academic, and is a full professor at the

Auckland University of Technology Auckland University of Technology ( AUT; ) is a university in New Zealand, formed on 1 January 2000 when a former technical college (originally established in 1895) was granted university status. AUT is New Zealand's third largest university i ...

, specialising in transdisciplinary education and digital education.

Academic career

Peterson completed a

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and a

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at the

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (abbreviated as RMIT University) is a public research university located in the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia., section 4(b) Established in 1887 by Francis Ormond, it is the seventh-o ...

. Her dissertation was titled ''Technologically speaking: creating a strategic knowledge network and the new 'network advantage' for global education''. Peterson joined RMIT and was associate professor there before joining the faculty of the Auckland University of Technology in 2019, where she was appointed Professor of Transdisciplinary Education. She is also Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies at Auckland. Peterson leads and is the chief investigator in the Digital Work Practices collaborative research project at RMIT, which is funded by the Australian Technology Network of Universities. The project is a partnership between RMIT,

Queensland University of Technology The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. It has two major campuses, a modern city campus in Gardens Point, Brisbane, Gardens Point ...

and

University of Technology Sydney The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a public university, public research university located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The university was founded in its current form in 1988, though its origins as a Institute of technology, ...

to investigate how prepared graduates are for digital working, and to embed digital technologies into curricula. Peterson published a book on creative leadership in education in 2013, published by SensePublishers Rotterdam. Peterson's paper ''Profession learning: A continuum reimagined'' won the 2018 International Excellence Award from The Learner, and her 2015 paper ''Learning and Teaching Scholarship: Discovery across Disciplines'' won the 2015 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences International Award for Excellence. In 2008 Peterson was awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation Award.

Selected works

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References

External links

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Five questions with Professor Fiona Paterson
', 8 June 2021, via Vimeo {{DEFAULTSORT:Peterson, J. Fiona New Zealand academics New Zealand women academics Australian educational theorists New Zealand educational theorists RMIT University alumni RMIT University people Academic staff of the Auckland University of Technology