Dr Christopher Bridge

Position: Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Study Area: Office of PVC Learning and Teaching
Location: Remote
Email: christopher.bridge@federation.edu.au
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8438-1725

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy – University of Adelaide – 2017

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) – Monash University & University of Adelaide – 2009

Bachelor of Music – University of Adelaide – 1993

Bachelor of Science (Honours) – University of Adelaide – 1990

Biography

Chris has worked in higher education learning & teaching for nearly two decades. He has experience in student and staff support roles, project coordination and conducting education research. His work and research experience has included international student support; academic skills development; student success, transition & retention; internationalisation of the curriculum; teaching technology innovation; effective delivery of professional development to academic staff; and building an institutional culture of innovation to enhance the student experience.

Research areas

  • Teaching innovation
  • (Equity) student transition, retention and success
  • Educational technology adoption
  • Educational development through communities of practice and practice-sharing
  • Learning analytics in the curriculum
  • Work-integrated learning at scale
  • Generative artificial intelligence in higher education

Publications

Book chapters

Egea, K., Padilla, K., Do, J., Horvath, D., & Bridge, C. (2024). Enhancing student transition to university: Innovative pre-arrival platforms through a connective ecosystem. In W. Garnham & N. Walker (Eds.), Supporting the student journey into higher education: How pre-arrival platforms can enhance widening participation (pp. 112-120). Routledge.

Bridge, C. (2017). Orbán’s Hungary: The othering of liberal Western Europe. In J. Chovanec & K. Molek-Kozakowska (Eds.), Representing the other in European media discourses (pp. 25-54). John Benjamins.

Refereed journal articles

Bridge, C., Horey, D., Julien, B., Thompson, B., & Loch, B. (2024). Making the student experience everybody’s business: Cultivating collaboration in the exosphere. Student Success 15(2), 34-44.

Loch, B., Horey, D., Julien, B., Bridge, C., & Thompson, B. (2024). Building the status of teaching-focused positions as prestigious roles to improve teaching quality. Advancing Scholarship and Research in Higher Education, 5(1).

Bridge, C., Horey, D., Loch, B., Julien, B., & Thompson, B. (2023). The impact of an innovators group on the development of a culture of innovation in the use of educational technologies. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 39(6), 17-32.

Larsen, A., Cox, S., Bridge, C., Horvath, D., Emmerling, M., & Abrahams, C. (2021). Short, multi-modal, pre-commencement transition programs for a diverse STEM cohort. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 18(3).

Larsen, A., Horvath, D. & Bridge, C., (2020). Get Ready: Improving the transition experience of a diverse first-year cohort through building student agency. Student Success, 10(2).

Leask, B. & Bridge, C. (2013). Comparing internationalisation of the curriculum in action across disciplines: Theoretical and practical perspectives. Compare, 42(1), 79–101.

Refereed conference proceedings

Bridge, C., Loch, B., Horey, D., Julien, B., & Thompson, B. (2023). Who wants to be a teaching innovator? In T. Cochrane, V. Narayan, C. Brown, K. MacCallum, E. Bone, C. Deneen, R. Vanderburg, & B. Hurren (Eds.), People, partnerships and pedagogies—Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education. ASCILITE.

Bridge, C., Loch, B., Bell, C., Thompson, B., Horey, D., Julien, B., & Agolli, J. (2022). “There’s a pandemic coming, get yourselves some tablets”: Lessons from the pandemic on a community of practice approach to learning technology diffusion. In S. Wilson, N. Arthars, D. Wardak, P. Yeoman, E. Kalman, & D.Y.T. Liu (Eds.), Reconnecting relationships through technology—Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education (e22100). ASCILITE.

Bridge, C., Loch, B., Horey, D., Julien, B., Thompson, B., & Agolli, J. (2021). Back to what? What STEM and Health teaching academics learnt from COVID-19. In S. Gregory, S. Warburton, & M. Schier (Eds.), Back to the future—Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education (pp. 278–288). ASCILITE.

Loch, B., Thompson, B., Bridge, C., Horey, D., Julien, B., & Agolli, J. (2021). Building a culture of innovation in learning and teaching technologies through an innovators group. In S. Gregory, S. Warburton, & M. Schier (Eds.), Back to the future—Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education (pp. 161–165). ASCILITE.