Franziska Trede is a Professor of Higher Education and Professional Practice in the Education Portfolio of the office of the DVC Education and Student at UTS. Franziska is the past President of the Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) and a Principal Fellow of Advance HE. 

At UTS, she leads the UTS wide Professional Education and Practice Network, and she is the course coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning. In this graduate certificate Franziska teaches the following subjects: student agency and teamwork, practising inclusion:working and teaching for social justice, evidencing academic practice.

Her research interests include professional learning, social justice education, professional identity development, professional voice, agency, educating the deliberate professional, employability and the educational partnership between university and external partners. She has conducted numerous funded research projects in the area of workplace learning, agency, leadership and enhancing learning with technology.

Franziska has published 1 co-authored book and 8 co-edited books and over 100 peer-reviewed book chapters and journal papers. She serves on the editorial boards for Studies in Continuing Education and Active Learning in Higher Education. 

Franziska has supervised PhD candidates to completion who have won the University Medal and Faculty Prizes.

She has a track record in producing multi-media resources from her research program. She has produced self-paced online modules for interprofessional and academic leadership and a self-paced module for practitioners who supervise university students in their workplace. She has also developed trigger films of workplace learning scenes accompanied by teacher guides to build capacity for professional agency in students, academics and workplace supervisors.

Franziska has presented her work on local, national and international platforms and was invited keynote speaker, visiting professor and workshop facilitator in higher education institutions in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and UK.