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LLB(Hons) Qld, LLM QUT
Legal Practioner, Supreme Court of Queensland Barrister & Legal Practioner
Supreme Court of Northern Territory
Legal Practitioner, High Court of Australia
Contact:
Room: C322 (Gardens Point campus)
Phone: (07) 313 81098
Fax: (07) 331 82121
E-mail: s.kift@qut.edu.au
Before joining QUT in 1996, Sally Kift worked in the private profession in Brisbane as an employed solicitor with (then) MG Lyons and Co (now Ebsworth and Ebsworth). She also worked in the public sector, as associate to two Federal Court Judges in Brisbane (Fitzgerald and Spender JJ), and for the Government of the Northern Territory in the areas of litigation, legal policy and aboriginal land claims. While in the Northern Territory , Sally was active in the Northern Territory Law Society, acting as Secretary of the Law Society's Public Purposes Trust, co-ordinating Law Week and the Society's Continuing Legal Education Program, and starting up and co-ordinating the Law Society's Inter-School Mock Trial Competition.
Sally has previously taught at the Northern Territory University in Darwin (1986-1993) and at Griffith University in Brisbane (1994-1995).
Sally has received both local and national recognition for her excellence in teaching. In 1999, Sally received the Law Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. In 2001, she was selected as one of three QUT Distinguished Teaching Award recipients and went on to become a national finalist (with Kingsford Legal Centre) at the Australian Awards for University Teaching, where she was runner-up in the Law and Legal Studies category of those Awards.
Sally was again a national award finalist in 2003 and went on to become one of eight national Teaching Award winners (winning the AAUT Economics, Business, Law and Related Studies category) who each received a $40,000 federal government grant (see: http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/Nelson/2003/12/n541021203.asp). She was specifically recognised for her work in the development of the first year curriculum, support for sessional teaching staff, online teaching policy development, the improvement of first year student experience and the development of graduate capabilities.
Sally Kift has published widely in legal education and in criminal law and has received many national and international invitations to speak on issues relating to transition and the first year experience, curriculum design to embed and assess graduate attributes and the current state of legal education.
Sally was Assistant Dean, Teaching & Learning for 3 years prior to 2006.
Units currently taught:
Research interests:
- Legal education
- First year experience
- Assessment
- Curriculum design to embed Graduate attributes
- Criminal law
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