Rate My Professor Mitch Low

Dr. Mitch Low serves as Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Business and Law at Curtin University, where he is a member of the FBL Student Experience group in the FBL Faculty Operations section. Based in Curtin Business School 2, Room 203, Perth, Australia, he holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology and Sociology. Dr. Low actively contributes to Curtin University's educational enhancements, notably as the author of the Assessment Pulse Check resource within the Assessment 2030 initiative. This tool assists educators in evaluating their current assessments through a reflective pulse check exercise, supporting the transition to the Two-Lane Approach in assessment practices.

Dr. Low's academic interests include sociology, social anthropology, teaching and learning, and learning design, as indicated on his Google Scholar profile. His publications demonstrate impact in social sciences and education, with works collectively cited approximately 459 times. Prominent among them is Flipping the sociology classroom: Towards a practice of online pedagogy, published in the Journal of Sociology in 2013 and cited 282 times, which advocates for online pedagogical strategies in sociology teaching. Another significant contribution is ‘They have to abide by our laws… and stuff’: Ethnonationalism masquerading as civic nationalism, appearing in Nations and Nationalism in 2015 with 110 citations, analyzing expressions of ethnonationalism. Further key works encompass Beyond the production of tourism imaginaries: Student-travellers in Australia and their reception of media representations of their host nation in Annals of Tourism Research (2014, 49 citations), exploring media-influenced perceptions; Language and place-knowledge on Norfolk Island in Ethnos (2015, 13 citations); Putting Down Roots: Belonging and the Politics of Settlement on Norfolk Island (2012); and the book chapter Coming to the Reel Australia: North American Exchange Student Perceptions of Australia in Motion Pictures: Travel Ideals in Film (2016). These publications highlight Dr. Low's expertise in ethnographic and educational research.