Rate My Professor Sharon Flecknoe

Sharon Flecknoe is an Associate Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at Monash University, part of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. She holds the position of Head of Allied Health Education at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and serves as Director of Outreach Education. Promoted to Associate Professor in 2023, she previously worked as a Lecturer in the faculty. Flecknoe is also the Manager of BioEYES Australia and Early Years Bioscience Coordinator. She has been recognized with the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Innovation in Learning and Teaching Award in 2017 (shared with colleagues) and Senior Fellowship status with AdvanceHE in 2020. She leads the BioEYES Australia outreach program, which was a finalist for the 2023 Engagement Australia Excellence Awards. Her contributions include leading projects on flipped classrooms and student engagement strategies. She has delivered numerous public lectures and seminars on active learning techniques and classroom activation, totaling 18 such activities.

Her academic interests include blended learning, collaborative learning, flipped classrooms, anatomy and physiology, active learning, and science outreach. Early research focused on fetal lung development, particularly alveolar epithelial cell differentiation and the impact of lung expansion in fetal sheep. Notable publications from this period include "Increased lung expansion alters the proportions of type I and type II alveolar epithelial cells in fetal sheep" (Flecknoe et al., 2000, American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology), "Changes in alveolar epithelial cell proportions during fetal and postnatal development in sheep" (Flecknoe et al., 2003, same journal), and "Regulation of alveolar epithelial cell phenotypes in fetal sheep: roles of cortisol and lung expansion" (Flecknoe et al., 2004, same journal). More recently, she has published on higher education pedagogy, such as "Redefining academic identity in an evolving higher education landscape" (Flecknoe et al., 2017, Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice) and contributed chapters like "Perfusion" and "The Autonomic Nervous System" in Paramedic Principles and Practice (2021). With 25 research outputs, her work has garnered significant citations.