Rate My Professor Amanda Janssen

Mrs Amanda Janssen is a Lecturer in Academic Integrity at Adelaide University, within Academic Quality and Integrity. She completed a Master of Applied Linguistics at the University of Adelaide from 2010 to 2012. Her career history includes roles at Charles Darwin University from 2013 to 2021, serving as Theme Leader Senior Lecturer in Academic Language and Learning and Lecturer in the Academic Language and Learning Success Program. From 2021, she was Lecturer in Academic Development - Academic Integrity at the University of South Australia, which merged to form Adelaide University, and took up her current position in December 2025. Janssen is a recognised expert in academic integrity, with expertise in curriculum development and assessment design. She provides comprehensive leadership in academic integrity portfolios.

In 2020, Janssen received a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the Australian Awards for University Teaching, recognising her development of innovative resources that make visible and clearly communicate university procedures and expectations around student academic integrity. Her key publications include: Nallaya, S., Kenyon, K., Gentili, S., Dinmore, S., & Janssen, A. (2025). Authentic assessment: Academic developers and curriculum transformation through distributed leadership. Issues in Educational Research, 35(4), 1644-1663; Strambi, A., Hobson, J. E., Baldock, K., & Janssen, A. (2023). Exploring the role of academic development in supporting tertiary educators' well-being: the case of online consultations at UniSA. Student Success, 14(3), 128-135; Reedy, A. K., Wurm, P. A. S., Janssen, A., & Lockley, A. (2021). A community of practice approach to enhancing academic integrity policy translation: a case study. International Journal for Educational Integrity, 17(1), 1-20; Podorova, A. et al. (2019). An important, but neglected aspect of learning assistance in higher education: exploring the digital learning capacity of academic language and learning practitioners. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 16(4); Janssen, A., & Rowen, R. (2016). Purpose, meaning and alignment: dual frameworks to scaffold understanding and design of assessment to enhance the student and teacher experience. Journal of Academic Language and Learning, 10(1), A191-A205; Janssen, A. (2016). Social semiotic multimodal analysis of discourse in banking. In P. Mickan & E. Lopez (Eds.), Text-Based Research and Teaching: a Social Semiotic Perspective on Language in Use (pp. 75-95). Palgrave Macmillan. She is a member of the Australasian Academic Integrity Network and contributes to teaching innovation and peer review of teaching.