About
Professor Rosie Wickert has extensive experience in adult education and training, education management and policy advice and analysis. She has high level qualifications in education, change management and policy and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Rosie was a Professor at the University of Technology where she trained numerous adult educators, furthered research activity in language and literacy education and managed a number of university wide change initiatives. She is currently Adjunct Professor to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Rosie has held a number of advisory roles at state and federal levels of government and presided over state and national professional bodies.
More recently, Rosie was Head of Campus at Coffs Harbour campus of Southern Cross University where she became familiar with education and training issues in regional Australia.
Rosie’s particular area of expertise is adult language and literacy education policy as evidenced by her multiple publications in that field, including the ground breaking first national survey of adult literacy in Australia, ‘No Single Measure’ in 1989.
She is Chair of UTS Insearch Academic Board and a member of the North Coast Institute of TAFE Advisory Council. She is a co-editor of Literacy and Numeracy Studies and an advisory editor to the Australian Journal of Private Higher Education.