About Us

Specialist academic advice and educational consultancy

We are university lecturers with many years experience in teaching, particularly in academic language and learning. As lecturers in a university Learning Development unit we have taught academic strategies and literacies for undergraduate and postgraduate students across many disciplines, with a special emphasis on Nursing, Medicine, Social Work, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (at UOW). Due to COVID19 our services are now available to support colleagues and students at universities Australia wide.

If you are overworked and under pressure please contact us for information on how we can help you. (See also our Biographies/Resumes/Publications.)

Individual and small group consultations for students, pre-entry programs, support for academics and much more...

In the current crisis we offer online teaching influenced by a strong background in face to face teaching.

Where possible face to face sessions will be considered.

One-to-one consultations: currently we offer an online service using ..... to share and discuss documents, assessment task instructions, drafts, feedback and our resources on academic strategies.

For students (or staff) with limited/intermittent internet usage we use phone, emails and attachements.

We support the use of relevant technology as necessary, including referencing systems etc.

We teach academic strategies to help students to apply them to specific tasks. They can discuss how to understand a task, plan and start to structure a draft in one session and return to discuss structure, language, grammar once they have written a draft.

Small group consultations

Small group consultations can be provided for groups of students writing the same type of texts.

  • A group of students from a variety of subjects may want help with essay writing strategies.

  • A group of Nursing students may need to learn about reflective writing.

  • A group of medical students may need to focus on critical essay writing

  • A group of social work students may want to learn about annotated bibliographies.

  • Some join with friends for writing, structure, grammar, referencing etc. advice after they receive feedback.

Recovery and pre-entry programs

Workshops for academic skills specialists