Rate My Professor Julie Timmermans

Dr. Julie Timmermans serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Higher Education Development Centre at the University of Otago and as an Educational Designer in the Centre for Educational Design and Innovation within the Academic Division. Her academic interests center on higher education pedagogy, including internationalisation of the curriculum, academic development, threshold concepts, teaching and learning practices, emotional responses to assessment, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She coordinates HEDU 501 Critical Reflection on Higher Education, contributes to HEDU 502 Learning Theory and Practice in Tertiary Teaching, and supervises HEDU 510 Advanced Topics in Higher Education as well as HEDU 590 Research Dissertation. Prior to her appointment at the University of Otago, she worked as an Instructional Developer at the Centre for Teaching Excellence at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Timmermans has made significant contributions to the field through her publications on academic development and transformative learning concepts. Notable works include 'Wise academic development: learning from the “failure” experiences of retired academic developers' (2020, co-authored with Kathryn A. Sutherland), 'Holistic academic development: Is it time to think more holistically?' (2018), 'Annoyance and frustration: Emotional responses to being assessed in higher education' (2018, with Tony Harland), 'A framework for working with university teachers to create and embed “Integrated Threshold Concept Knowledge” (ITCK) in their practice' (2017), 'Identifying threshold concepts in the careers of educational developers' (2014), and 'Changing Our Minds: The Developmental Potential of Threshold Concepts' (2010). Her research outputs have accumulated over 767 citations on Google Scholar, underscoring her impact on higher education scholarship. She has engaged in international collaborations, presented on threshold concepts and liminality, and served in editorial capacities, including as co-editor for the International Journal for Academic Development.