Dr. Ainslie Robinson

BA (Hons. First class); Grad.Dip.Ed., LL.B, Ph.D.
Academic Developer & Senior Lecturer

Email: ainslie.robinson@nd.edu.au
Phone: 9433 0928

  • Biography

    Ainslie is an Academic Developer and Senior Lecturer in the Learning and Teaching Office (LTO) at the University of Notre Dame Australia. As well as lecturing, she co-ordinates the University’s internal and external grants and awards programmes, and helps to provide professional learning opportunities to academic staff. Ainslie has a range of lecturing and research experiences in various disciplines on which she can draw to help staff to progress towards academic excellence and recognition. Since joining Notre Dame in 2012, Ainslie has represented Notre Dame in local, national and international capacities in such networks as HERDSA WA, WAND and OLT. She has recently been accepted as an Associate Fellow HERDSA (AFHERDSA). In the area of Learning and Teaching, Ainslie is currently collaborating on a number of SOTL projects in the areas of assessment, blended learning and curriculum design. Ainslie has previously worked at UWA and Macquarie universities, and has studied at UWA and the University of Oslo, Norway.

  • Teaching Areas

    Ainslie is currently the Course Co-ordinator for the Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching for Higher Education (GCLT), and a unit coordinator delivering units in the same course. She also has broad-ranging experience lecturing in Education (specialising in TESOL), supervising post-graduate studies in English Literature and lecturing in undergraduate Arts in the disciplines of English and Fine Arts (specialising in 19th-century studies).

  • Research Expertise and Supervision

    Research areas include:

    • In Arts: 19th century studies; Anna Jameson; Harriet Martineau; the Brownings; 19th-century art criticism. Supervision areas include: T.S. Eliot; sacred art history; Victorian novels.
    • In Law: Authentic assessment; Maritime Law; Juries; internet governance and social media/technology in Law.
    • In Education: SoTL; blended learning; digital competence; academic development; TESL.

  • Journal Articles and Proceedings

    • Dawe, L., Robinson, A. (2017). Wikipedia editing and information literacy: a case study. Information and Learning Science, 118 (1/2), pp.5-16, https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-09-2016-0067
    • Burro, B. and Robinson, A. (2015). Student perceptions of self-efficacy of using clinical reasoning skills in neurology. Advances in Health Sciences Education (submitted).

    Refereed Articles:

    • Robinson, Ainslie (2016). Manners and Conduct in the Nineteenth Century. Defining Gender Online: Five Centuries of Advice Literature for Men and Women (1450-1910). www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/collect/p545.htm
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2003). The history of our Lord as exemplified in works of art: Anna Jameson’s coup de grace. Women’s Writing, (10)1, 187-200.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2002). Playfellows and propaganda: Harriet Martineau’s children’s writing. Women’s Writing, (9)3, 395-412.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2000). Stalking through the literary world: Anna Jameson and the periodical press, 1826-1860. Victorian Periodicals Review, 33, 165-177.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (1999). Educating virgins: Anna Jameson's legends of the Madonna. Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, 5, 66-78.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (1999). Invoking the bard - The Cornhill Magazine and "revival" in the Victorian theatre, 1863. Victorian Periodicals Review, 32, 259-268.

  • Conference Papers

    Scholarship of Learning and Teaching/Research
    Conference Presentations:

    • Robinson, A. Jongste, J. and Cook, D. (2016). All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten: IT competency from the cradle to the stave. Teaching and Learning Forum, Perth: Curtin University.
    • Robinson, A. and Cook, D. (2016). "Stickiness": a new measure of students' attention to online learning activities. HERDSA International Conference, Fremantle, Australia.
    • Robinson, A. (2015). Teaching tertiary teachers: teaching with the tools with which we are teaching. Teaching and Learning Forum, Perth, Australia.
    • Robinson, A. and Jesuraj, V. (2015). e-Learning Learning Enterprises (eLLE): Blackboard Organisations enriching academic development in the blended learning space. Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference, Adelaide, Australia.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2014). What next if there's no nexus? Teaching and Learning Forum, Perth, Australia.
    • Robinson, A. and Everingham, F. (2014). Shifting from anecdote to keynote: mapping the journey from local to global excellence. HERDSA Conference, Hong Kong.
    • Robinson, A. et al. (2014). Waving the magic WAND. PEN Symposium, Sydney, Australia.

    Research Conference Papers:

    • Robinson, Ainslie (2014). Jules Verne and the metatextual implications of air travel. Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2013). Robert MacPherson's 1840s photographic souvenirs of Rome. International Victorian Studies Conference, Venice, Italy.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2007). Robert MacPherson. Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, Perth, Australia: The University of Western Australia.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2006). Passing Fancies. Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, Melbourne, Australia: La Trobe University.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2005). "Dearest Mona Nina": Mrs Jameson, the Brownings and Renaissance Italy. Browning Society Conference, Vallambrosa, Italy.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2003). Getting Off the Ground: Aerial stunts and other experimental feats of daring in the nineteenth century. British Association of Victorian Studies Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales: University of Aberystwyth.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2003). Gender Personified: Anna Jameson's Dialogues and the case for Gender Equality. Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, Brisbane, Australia: Griffith University.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2002). The maternal organisation: commodity and the metaphor of motherhood in the works of Anna Jameson. British Association of Victorian Studies Conference, Hull, England: University of Hull.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2002). The renaissance of Mrs Jameson: The pre-Victorian Victorian. 1830s Conference, Salford, England: The University of Salford.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2002). Venus and virgin in the "velvet underground": Aubrey Beardsley's Venus and Tannhauser. Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, Adelaide, Australia: University of Adelaide.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2001). Saints in paints. Catholic Education Conference, Perth, Australia: The University of Notre Dame, Australia.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2001). Elevated incarnations: The Victorian Venus from art to erotica. Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, Ballarat, Australia: University of Ballarat.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2000). Viva Paddy! The Irish Renaissance in the 1850s through the eyes of an expatriate female art historian. IHA Conference, Perth, Australia: Murdoch and Notre Dame Universities.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (2000). Dead women working: obituaries of writing women in the Victorian periodical press. Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, Perth, Australia: The University of Western Australia.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (1999). Periodical Appearances: Gendered Art Criticism and the Victorian Press. Gendered Journalism Seminar, Perth, Australia: The University of Western Australia.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (1999). Mapping maternal maidens: The Madonna and transitions from child-women to women-with-children in the 19th Century. Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (1998). False eyelashes and false endings: Helen Faucit on Shakespeare's Imogen. Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, Armidale, Australia: University of New England.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (1997). Lovers in Verse are not, Therefore, Poets. Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand: University of Canterbury.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (1995). Anna and the indians: colonial perceptions of native dress. Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, Melbourne, Australia: La Trobe University.

  • Original Curated Works

    Poetry

    • Robinson, Ainslie M. (2012). Suite.
    • Robinson, Ainslie (1998). Folding the Sheets. Westerly, December, Perth, Australia.

    Novels:

  • Curated Exhibitions or Events

    Robinson, Ainslie (1995). Carol Rudyard Wallhanging Screenprint I. In UWA Press Interventions: collected essays on feminist intervention in western art history. Perth Australia: UWA Press.

  • Professional Affiliations

    • Australasian Victorian Studies Association
    • British Association of Victorian Studies
    • HERDSA (Higher Education Research & Development Australasia)
    • WAND (West Australian Network for Dissemination)
    • MLANZ (Maritime Law ANZ)

  • Awards

    • 2011 Scholarship, Study Abroad, The University of Western Australia.
    • 2002-05 FAHSS Special Project, Arts Practicum, The University of Western Australia.
    • 2001 ARC Small Grant, Notre Dame University, Australia.
    • 1997 McGregor Fellowship, St. Deiniol’s Reading Library, Wales, UK.
    • 1994-96 University Post-Graduate Award, The University of Western Australia.
    • 1990 Ministry of Education Scholarship, Western Australia.
    • 1987 Amy Jane Best Prize in English Literature, The University of Western Australia.