Rate My Professor Anita Maclaurin

Anita Maclaurin is a Lecturer at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, affiliated with university enabling programs such as FlexiTrack High and TLC Learning for Tomorrow. She has been at the institution since July 6, 2013, and serves as Program Coordinator for high school enabling initiatives. Holding a Bachelor of Arts, Maclaurin focuses her academic career on enabling education designed to support underrepresented and low socio-economic status students in their transition to higher education. Her research explores student perspectives on program effectiveness, learning journeys, and barriers to success in university preparation pathways.

Maclaurin's scholarly contributions include 11 publications listed on ResearchGate, with 79 citations. Key works are 'High School Enabling Programs, Learning Journeys, and Transitions: Measuring Effectiveness from the Student Perspective' (2025, Student Success, Vol. 16(1), pp. 38-47, co-authored with Rebekah Sturniolo-Baker, Susan E. Shaw, and Deb Monteith), which employs interpretative phenomenological analysis on data from students in Murdoch University's high school enabling programs. She also authored 'School-Based Enabling Programs: Creating Opportunity and Connection' (2022, Student Success, Vol. 13(3), pp. 1-10). In 2025, she co-edited 'Trauma Informed Teaching in the Liminal Spaces' with Angela Jones, Ana Larsen, and Susan Hopkins. Additional publications encompass 'Looking into the “Dark Mirror”: Autoethnographic Reflections on the Impact of COVID-19 and Change Fatigue on the Wellbeing of Enabling Practitioners' (2023), 'Reflective Encounters for Enabling Educators: The Role of Debriefing in Building Psychological Capital' (2021), 'Strategies for embedding socio-emotional learning as part of a holistic enabling transition pedagogy' (2016), and 'Understanding the Learner: Effective course design in the changing higher education space' (2016). Her collaborations with researchers like Angela Jones, Joanne Lisciandro, and Rebekah Sturniolo-Baker advance equity, student success, and pedagogical practices in enabling education, aligning with national goals for widening university participation.