Rate My Professor Alex Hendry

Dr. Alex Hendry serves as a Lecturer and Teaching Associate in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Southern Cross University, specializing in Information Technology. He earned his Bachelor of Information Technology (BInfTech) from Southern Cross University, along with a Master of Business (MBus) and a PhD. Based at the B5.22 office on the Gold Coast campus, Hendry contributes to both teaching and research within the university's science and engineering disciplines.

Hendry's academic contributions include research on personal carbon trading systems as part of the Norfolk Island Carbon Health Evaluation (NICHE) project, which explored links between carbon emissions, obesity, and sustainable behaviors. Key publications co-authored by him are 'Exploring the Effects of Personal Carbon Trading (PCT) System on the Norfolk Island Carbon Health Evaluation (NICHE) Project' (2014), 'Influences on Attitudes to a Personal Carbon Trading System' (2013), 'Influences on Intentions to Use a Personal Carbon Trading System: NICHE - The Norfolk Island Carbon Health Evaluation Project' (2015), 'Gender Differences in Intentions to Use a Personal Carbon Trading System' (2016), and acknowledgments in 'Assessment of Personal Carbon Goals for Reducing Obesity and Carbon Emissions' (2018). These works, published in proceedings such as ITMR and ACIS, analyzed attitudes, gender differences, and potential impacts of carbon trading on health and environmental outcomes. Previously affiliated with the Southern Cross Business School, School of Business and Tourism, and School of Health and Human Sciences, Hendry's career reflects interdisciplinary engagement at the university.

More recently, Hendry co-authored 'Sense of Belonging, Trust and Anxiety in STEM in a Regional Australian University,' presented at the 28th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2026). This study examined sense of belonging, instructor trust, and academic anxiety among STEM students, finding no significant campus distance effects but differences across computing, engineering, and science disciplines, with qualitative insights highlighting online student isolation. Hendry also leads educational initiatives, including the AI Models and Prompt Engineering Boot Camp, and mentored the Southern Cross University Coders team in the Digital Enterprise Lab's inaugural Innovation Challenge (2018). He delivered a webinar on AI for transdisciplinary collaboration in sustainability science.