Sarah Holland-Batt

Professor Holland-Batt's leadership in learning and teaching is defined by its transformative capacity to foster collaborative communities among students, and has been recognised with the CHASS Australia Prize for Future Leader in the Humanities and an AAUT Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. She has made major contributions to the tertiary teaching of Creative Writing, designing curriculum that provides embedded opportunities for students to develop enterprising skills, preparing them for the rapidly evolving publishing industry. She has also done extensive work in democratising access and appreciation for Australian poetry and literature, including through her column on contemporary poetry in The Australian, and her current role as a co-host of the Book Club on the Hon. Julia Gillard AC's A Podcast of One's Own. Her work is widely taught on secondary and tertiary syllabi in Australia and abroad, and she does extensive outreach in the secondary sector, where her work is presently set on the VCE.