DrCamille Dickson-Deane

Pedagogical usability, Individual differences, digital pedagogy, cultural contexts

2025- 2026 Trustworthy Digital Society (Awarded) $61,000 AUD for a project titled “Empowering Consumers Through AI-Powered Energy Literacy Tool: A Co-Designed Approach” – 2025/2026 for a project geared to demonstrate collaborative innovation in increasing energy literacy in society (with Dr. Bahareh Azar, Avinash Singh, Morteza Saberi, Adrian Camilleri, Jahangir Hossain, Danial Prior and Arash Shaghaghi from UNSW).

2025 CREDs Research Sprint (Awarded) $7,000 AUD for a project titled “Understanding the Impact of AI Tutoring on Students' Learning Outcomes” for a project geared to investigate the experiences of high-schools students learning as they partner with an AI tutoring application (with Dr. Amara Atif, Gary Liang (Blooms AI) and Joanne Vilis (St. Dominics Priory College)).

2024 OnPrime 16 (Awarded) $5000 AUD Team named Game Changers, for a project geared to create an integrated modular game design tool that facilitates the creation of education games utilizing drag and drop and plug-in functionality. (with Dr. Samira Alvandi, Dr. Amara Atif, Dr. Bella Harandi, Dr. Haoyu Li University of Technology Sydney).

2024 BlueSky (Awarded) $9, 000 AUD for a project titled “Developing an energy smart application to enhance residents energy literacy.” (with Dr. Bahareh Berenjforoush Azar, Dr. Shirazi Arezoo, Dr. Saberi Morteza and Dr. Baki Kocaballi, University of Technology Sydney).

2024 CREDs Research Sprint (Awarded) $5, 000 AUD for a project titled “AI in Schools”.  The project is to investigate how teachers in schools use AI in their teaching practice. (with Dr. Damien Maher, Dr. Keith Heggart and Dr. Antoinette Shibani, University of Technology Sydney).

2024 CREDs Research Sprint (Awarded) $5, 000 AUD for a project titled “Applying dispositional learning analytics in the Master of Pharmacy”.  The project uses the learning journey tool in Canvas to map students understanding of their learning. (with Dr. Helen Benson, Prof. Kylie Williams, Dr. Noelia Fernandez, Prof. Simon Buckingham-Shum and Dr. Lisa-Angelique Lim ,University of Technology Sydney).

2024 OnPrime 15 (Awarded) $4, 000 AUD Team named Women in Energy, for a project positioned to create a program that promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace for managers and senior leadership which is essential for developing a positive and inclusive culture. (with Dr. Bahareh Berenjforoush Azar and Dr, Eva Cheng, University of Technology Sydney).

 

2022 AUSINDUSTRY Department of Industry, Science Energy and Resources (Awarded) $15, 000 AUD for a project titled “Make the Maker: Inspiring youth to engage in STEM pathways through Makerspace Workshops”.  The project is a community engagement project which seeks to investigate how students make meaning in computer science classrooms. (with Dr. Michelle Vanderburg and Dr. Robert Vanderburg of Central Queensland University).

2021 UTS HASS-STEM Research Collaboration (Awarded) $40, 000 AUD for a pilot project titled “How do students make meaning of their online learning”.  The project seeks to investigate based on students’ cognitive constructs, how do they use the functionality of an online course and its systems to learn. (with Dr. Kun Yu and Dr. Lisa-Angelique Lim).

2021 Association for Educational Communications and Technologies (AECT), University of Mannheim, Germany, Purdue University, USA and University of Florida, USA - (Awarded) $15,000 USD to fund the publishing of an open access book titled “Global Perspective on Educational Innovations for Emergency Situations. The project initiated from two Presidential panels during AECT’s 2020 annual conference where panelist shared how their institutions and respective countries, or regions responded to the pandemic. The book is part of the Springer book series “Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations”. (with Dr. Vanessa Dennen, Dr. Xun Ge, Dr. Dirk Ifenthaler, Dr. Sahana Murthy and Dr. Jennifer C. Richardson).