Professor Sally Kift - Director of the QUT FYE Project

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Professor
Director of the QUT FYE Project

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

Recent Publications and Articles

Keynote Presentations

• S. Kift Keynote address "Enhancing First Year and Easing Transition: A Learner-Centred Approach at Teaching Matters 2004, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 25 November 2004 See http://www.utas.edu.au/teachingmatters/2004/index.html
• S. Kift, Keynote Address "Curriculum Renewal and a New Pedagogy for the First Year Experience", Macquarie Transition Program, Macquarie University, Sydney, 16 November 2004. See http://www.mq.edu.au/transition/conf/conf.htm
• S. Kift, Keynote address "The Reflective Teacher: Teaching for Learning Transformation" Deakin University, Geelong, 12 November 2004
• S. Kift, "Let's Talk About the Legal Aspects of Bullying: Bullying as Criminal Conduct" Invited Keynote: Catholic Education, Bullying Conference, 9 September 2004, Bardon Professional Centre, Brisbane
• S. Kift, Keynote Address "Organising First Year Engagement Around Leaning: Formal and Informal Curriculum intervention" at 8 th International First Year in Higher Education Conference, 14 - 16 July 2004, Melbourne available at http://www.fyhe.qut.edu.au/program.html
• S. Kift, keynote speaker "Setting the Student Experience Scene". Invited keynote presentation and workshop facilitator, Charles Sturt University, Ballart. 12-14 May 2004.

Other Invited Presentations

• S. Kift, "Bail" in Caxton Legal Centre Inc, The Queensland Law Handbook, 8 th ed, 2004 (pp 612-620).
• Foreword to Griffith Universty Law School Curriculum Review Report, June 2005.
• S. Kift, "For Better or For Worse?: 21st Century Legal Education" Invited presentation LAWASIA Downunder 2005, Gold Coast Convention Centre, March 2005.
• Invited Panel member: For the Term of Her Natural Life - Women before and during incarceration - Women's Legal Service Conference Challenge, Change and Cha, Cha, Cha., Brisbane, 26-29 November, 2004
• S. Kift, "21st Century Practice: Has Legal Education Kept Pace with the Contemporary Agenda?" Invited presentation Deakin University 12 November 2004
• S. Kift, "Quality Assurance in the Casualisation of Teaching, Learning & Assessment" Invited presentation to James Cook University, Townsville, 4-5 November, 2004
• S. Kift, "Embedding & Assessing Graduate Capabilities" Invited presentation to James Cook University, Townsville, 4-5 November, 2004
• S. Kift, "Enhancing the First Year Experience in Law" Invited presentation to James Cook University, Townsville, 4-5 November, 2004
• S. Kift, Assessing for 21st Century Learning Outcomes in Law, Invited presentation, University of Newcastle, Newcastle 24 August 2004
• S. Kift, "Transforming the First Year Experience: A New Pedagogy to Enable Transition" Invited presentation University of Newcastle, 24 August 2004
• S. Kift, "Enhancing the First Year Student Experience through Formal & Informal Curriculum Intervention" Invited Presentation Bond University, Gold Coast, 28 July, 2004.
• S. Kift RMIT, Melbourne 16-17 March, 2004 - invited presentations: Workshop: Assessing Graduate Attributes (T&L Strategy Committee, CID staff); Workshop with RMIT AAUT Award Nominees & support teams; Workshop - Early Career Academics ECA - "Career planning (my story)"
• S. Kift, "Curriculum Renewal at QUT", presentation to Griffith University Law School Curriculum Review Committee, GU, 28/11/03
• S. Kift, "Legal Education in Australia : the Changing Agenda", invited presentation, ALSA Australasian Legal Education Forum 2003, Brisbane 4 July 2003.
• S. Kift invited (1 of 3) "Panel of Experts on Scholarly Teaching" Legal Education Workshop, ALTA 2003 S. Kift, "Embedding and Assessing Skills in Core Curriculum: QUT Case Studies" invited speaker at 13 th Commonwealth Law Conference Developing the Law Curriculum to Meet the Needs of the 21st Century Legal Practitioner, Melbourne, April 2003.

Chapters in Books

• S. Kift, "Bail" in Caxton Legal Centre Inc, The Queensland Law Handbook, 8 th ed, 2004 (pp 612-620).
• S. Kift, "Sexual Offences" in Caxton Legal Centre Inc, The Queensland Law Handbook, 8 th ed, 2004 (pp 677-690).
• S Kift, CCH Australian De Facto Relationships Reporter, Contributing Author, June 2003, " The Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 1989 (Qld)"
• S. Kift, "Bail" in Caxton Legal Centre Inc, The Queensland Law Handbook, 7^th ed, 2002 (pp 746-754).
• S. Kift, "Sexual Offences" in Caxton Legal Centre Inc, The Queensland Law Handbook, 7^th ed, 2002 (pp 811-824).

Refereed Journal Articles

• S. Kift, "My Law School - Then and Now" (Forthcoming) Newcastle Law Review
• S. Kift, "Sex and the team player: When a team becomes a gang" (2005) 30(3) Alternative Law Journal 136-147, 145.
• S. Kift, "A legal process or a justice system? Sex offences in Queensland - still seeking justice" (2003) 28(6) Alternative Law Journal 292-296, 310
• S. Kift, "A Tale of Two Sectors: Dynamic Curriculum Change for a Dynamically Changing Profession" (2003) 2(2) Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education JCLLE 5-22
• S. Kift, "Assuring Quality in the Casualisation of Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Towards Best Practice for the First Year Experience" (2003) March UltiBASE ISSN 1443-7023 at http://ultibase.rmit.edu.au/Articles/march03/kift1.htm
• S. Kift, "Defending the Indefensible: The Indefatigable Queensland Criminal Code Provisions on Self-Defence" (2001) 25 Crim LJ 28-39.
• S. Christensen and S Kift, "Graduate Attributes and Legal Skills: Integration or Disintegration?" (2000) 11(2) Legal Ed Rev 207-237
• S. Kift and L Willmott, "Abortion Law Reform: Will Someone Decide Who Decides?" (2000) 21(2) Qld Lawyer 65-73
• S.Kift, "Report 87: Review of Section 409B of the Crimes Act" (1999) 15 QUTLJ 223-231.
• S. Kift, "Stalking in Y2K" (1999) 11(1) Bond Law Review 144-156. [external word file]
• S. Currie and S Kift, "Women Surviving as Victims in the Criminal Justice System in Queensland: Is Revictimisation Inevitable? (1999) 15 QUTLJ 78-97
• S Currie and S Kift, "Add Victims and Stir? Or Change the Recipe: Achieving Justice for Victims of Crime In Queensland" (1999) 6 JCULR 78-108
• M. Thomas, S. Currie and S. Kift, "Morrison and Sentencing Justice: Look What They Done to My Song, Ma" (1999) National Law Review 4.
• S. Kift, "Lawyering Skills Finding Their Place in Legal Education" (1997) 8 Legal Education Review 43-73.
• S. Kift, "Criminal Liability and the Bad Samaritan: Failure to Rescue Provisions in the Criminal Law - Part 1" (1997) 1 Macarthur Law Review 212-234.
• S. Kift, "Criminal Liability and the Bad Samaritan: Failure to Rescue Provisions in the Criminal Law - Part II" (1997) 1 Macarthur Law Review 258-281.
• S. Kift, "The Dietrich Dilemma" (1997) 13 QUTLJ 205-228.
• S. Kift, "How not to amend a Criminal Code" (1997) 22 Alt LJ 215-219.
• S. Kift, "Victims and Offenders: Beyond the Mediation Paradigm?" (1996) 7 Australian Dispute Resolution Journal 71-87.
• S. Kift, "That All Rape is Rape Even if Not by a Stranger" (1995) 4 Griffith Law Review 60-111. [external site]
• S. Kift and G. Airo-Farulla "Throwing Students in the Deep End or Teaching Them How to Swim: Developing 'Offices' as a Technique of Law Teaching" (1995) 6 Legal Education Review 53-90.

Non-Refereed Articles

• S. Kift "Between a Rock and Several Hard Places: Where Does a Faculty Learning & Teaching Sub-Dean Sit and What is That Role?" (2004) 26(3) HERDSA News 8-11.
• S. Kift, "The Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 1989 : A New Era in Violence Protection for Queenslanders" (2003) 23 (June) Proctor
• S. Kift, "Amendments to Queensland's Domestic Violence legislation" (2002) Report No 102 CCH Australian De Facto Relationships News, 5 June 2002 5-7.
• S. Kift, "More in the Family Now: Queensland's New DV Legislation" (2002) 22(4) Proctor 20-21.
• S. Kift, "The Chance to get Criminal Justice Right in Queensland?" (2001) 21(4) Proctor 5.
• S. Kift and L Willmott, "Assisted Reproductive Technology: Legislators please Legislate." (2000) 20(2) Proctor 22-24. [Themis Database}
• S. Kift, "Researching Northern Territory Legislation" (1998) 6(3) Australian Law Librarian 189-193.
• S. Kift, "Stalking Law Reform: Proposed New Laws Examined" (1998) 18(8) Proctor 19-22. [Themis Database]
• E. Barnett & S. Kift, "To Kill or Be Killed: The NT Decision in R v Secretary and Implications for the Criminal Code" (1998) 18(2) Proctor 26-27 [Themis Database]
• S. Kift, "Provocation (Depending on Your Position): Green v R (1998) 18(1) Proctor 25-26 [Themis Database]
• S. Kift, "A Perspective on Teaching Perspectives" (1998) 5(1) ALTA Newsletter 5-7

Book Reviews

• S.Kift, " Court Advocate's Handbook" (2002) 2(1) QUTLJJ 152-154
• S. Kift, "Understanding Ethics" (2001) 1(2) QUTLJJ 317-322
• S. Kift, "Law on the Internet" (2000) 25(5) Alt LJ 260.
• S. Kift " Fault in Homicide" (2000) 20(10) Proctor 37.
• S. Kift "Balancing the Scales" (1999) 19(11) Proctor 39-40 [Themis Database

Refereed International and National Conference Papers

• K. Nelson, S. Kift and W Harper, "Any Portal in a Storm?" Online Engagement Patterns of First Year QUT Students". (Forthcoming) 2005 OLT Conference, September 2005.
• S. Kift and K. Nelson, "Beyond curriculum reform: embedding the transition experience". HERDSA 2005, University of Sydney, Sydney, July 2005. See: http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/herdsa2005/pdf/refereed/paper_294.pdf
• S. Kift, Transforming the First Year Experience: A New Pedagogy to Enable Transition, Enhancing Student Success Conference, University of Newcastle, April, 2005. See: http://www.ccc.newcastle.edu.au/student-support/2005conference/Sally%20Kift.pdf
• S. Kift "A new pedagogy for higher education?: Exploring integrated learning environments in legal education" Peer Reviewed paper presented at OLT 2004: Exploring Integrated Learning Environments, QUT, 3 November 2004
• S. Kift, Keynote Address "Organising First Year Engagement Around Leaning: Formal and Informal Curriculum intervention" at 8 th International First Year in Higher Education Conference, 14 - 16 July 2004, Melbourne available at http://www.fyhe.qut.edu.au/program.html
• S. Kift "Curriculum Renewal in Law to Meet the Needs of Global Practice: Embedding and Assessing Skills Acquisition" invited paper presented at Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Conference on Educating Lawyers for Translational Challenges May, 2004 Oahu, Hawaii, USA available http://www.aals.org/international2004/Papers/KIFT.pdf
• S. Kift Plenary 3 (see program - http://www.cdu.edu.au/alta2004/program.html ) - Keynote speakers Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference 2004 (ALTA 2004) "Crossing Boundaries" - Legal Education Panel-featuring winners of the Australian University Teaching Award, Sunday 11 July 2004, Darwin. Video streamed at http://www.cdu.edu.au/alta2004/videopresentations.html
• S. Kift, "Making Teaching Count for Women in Research: The Scholarship of Teaching", 2003 Women in Research Conference CQU, 13-14/11/03.
• S. Kift, "First Year Renewal to Engage Learners in Law", 7 th Pacific Rim, First Year in Higher Education Conference 2003, Brisbane, July 2003. See: http://www.fyhe.qut.edu.au/FYHE_Previous/papers03/Refereed%20Papers/Transition%20&%20Adjustment/Kift_ab.htm
• S Kift, "From bolting-on to embedding: How do we progress the seamlessness of online and in-class learning environments to enhance student-learning outcomes?", OLT 2003: Excellence Making the Connections, 5/11/03 . see: https://olt.qut.edu.au/OLT2003/program/program.htm
• S. Kift, "Harnessing assessment and feedback to assure quality outcomes for graduate capability development: A legal education case study", AARE Conference, Brisbane, December 2002. [external site]
• S. Kift, "Assuring Quality in the Casualisation of Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Towards Best Practice for the First Year Experience" paper presented at 6th Pacific Rim, First Year in Higher Education Conference 2002, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, July, 2002 [external site]
• S. Kift, "First Year Curriculum Review for Generic Competency: A Law Degree Case Study" Fourteenth International Conference on the First Year Experience (in conjunction with the Fifth Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference), 9-13 July 2001, Honolulu, Hawaii.
• S. Kift, "Curriculum Review for Generic Competency: Faculty of Law as a Case Study", QUT Faculty of Business Assessment Conference 2001, February 2001, Brisbane.
• S. Christensen and S. Kift, "Legal Skills and Ethics: Integration or Disintegration?", Commonwealth Legal Education Association, Adelaide, April 2000.

Non-Refereed Conference Papers Published

International

• S. Kift, K. Nelson and J. Humphreys, "Transforming the First Year Experience: A New Pedagogy to Enable Transition" 18th International Conference on The First-Year Experience held July 11 - 14, 2005 in Southampton, England .
• S. Kift, and K. Nelson, "FY Law: Engaging law students in transition as if retention and learning really matters" Paper presented at ALTA 2005 - One Law for All?, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 5-8 July, 2005.
• S. Kift, "Enhancing T&L through Assessment: The Implementation Perspective of an Assistant Dean T&L who is Responsible for the Quality Assurance of Assessment" Paper Y21411 delivered at First International Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Assessment Conference, June 2005, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
• S. Kift, "For Better or For Worse?: 21st Century Legal Education" Invited presentation LAWASIA Downunder 2005, Gold Coast Convention Centre, March 2005.
• S. Kift, "Assessing Graduate Capability Acquisition for Learning: An Assessment Framework" paper presented at speakers Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference 2004 (ALTA 2004) "Crossing Boundaries" - Legal Education Interest Group, 9 July 2004, Darwin, NT. See: http://www.cdu.edu.au/alta2004/interestgroups/le.html
• S. Kift, "Reflections on Best Practice Teaching - Legal Education: More than a Dark Room and a Torch", AUTC National Teaching Forum, Canberra, 1 December 2003 (See www.autc.gov.au/teaching_forum/2003/kift_text.ppt
• S. Kift, "How does Online sit with Face-to-Face in Legal Education: Some Ideas about boundaries", Legal Education Session, ALTA 2003, Brisbane, July 2003.
• S. Kift, "Legal Education in Australia : the Changing Agenda", invited presentation, ALSA Australasian Legal Education Forum 2003, Brisbane 4 July 2003 .
• S. Kift invited (1 of 3) "Panel of Experts on Scholarly Teaching" Legal Education Workshop, ALTA 2003
• S. Kift, "Embedding and Assessing Skills in Core Curriculum: QUT Case Studies" invited speaker at 13^th Commonwealth Law Conference Developing the Law Curriculum to Meet the Needs of the 21st Century Legal Practitioner, Melbourne, April 2003.
• S. Kift and J. Moran, "It's Criminal - Legislative Frustration for Queensland Women", F-LAW 2001, Praxis and Politics: Moving Forward in Difficult Times, Queensland University of Technology, February 2001.
• S. Kift, "It's a Matter of Affecting Attitude: Influencing Law Students to Embrace Higher-Order Lawyering Values", published paper presented at Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference 2001, University of the South Pacific, Vanuatu, July 2001.
• S. Christensen and S. Kift, "Embedding Graduate Attributes and Skills: Trick or Treat - Tips and Traps", ALTA 2000 Canberra, 4 July 2000.
• S.Kift, "Law Reform - Not: Queensland as the Abandoned State of Criminal Law Reform", Australia and New Zealand Law and Society Conference, Brisbane, 2000. [external pdf file]
• S. Kift, "Defending the Indefensible: The Indefatigable Queensland Criminal Code Provisions on Self-Defence" ALTA 2000: July 2000, Canberra.
• S. Kift "Stalking Law Reform: Queensland's New Laws Examined", Criminal Law Interest Group, ALTA 1999: July 1999, Wellington NZ.

National

• S.Kift, "A Faculty Assistant Dean, Teaching & Learning's Role in Quality Assurance of Assessment: Ensuring Constructive Alignment" paper presented in Plenary/keynote Panel session "Teaching & Learning: Policy and Practice in Higher Education" at ATN Evaluations & Assessment Conference Melbourne, November 2004.
• S. Kift and H. Goss "Technology in Law and Justice" Showcase demonstration for Law Faculty's QQR Panel, 21/04/04
• S.Kift RMIT, Melbourne 16-17 March, 2004 - invited presentations : Workshop: assessing capabilities (T&L Strategy Committee, CID staff) ; Workshop with RMIT AAUT Award Nominees and their support teams; Workshop - Early Career Academics ECA - "Career planning (my story)"
• N. Cuffe & S. Kift, "Embedding Research Skills into Core Curriculum", for Ms Aileen Weir, Law Librarian, ANU, Law Faculty, QUT, 05/02/04 .
• S. Kift, "Curriculum Renewal at QUT", presentation to Griffith Uni Law School Curriculum Review Committee, GU, 28/11/03
• D Nulty & S Kift, "Assuring the Quality of Assessment: A Case Study", ATN Evaluations and Assessment Conference 2003, University of South Australia, 24-25/11/03.
• S Kift, " Assessing to Support New Learning Outcomes: Assessing for Graduate Capability Acquisition ", ATN Evaluations and Assessment Conference 2003, University of South Australia, 24-25/11/03. See www.unisa.edu.au/evaluations/ Presentations/NultyKiftPPT.ppt S Kift, "Thx heaps 4 ur motivation email :) - Intervening with First Years for their Own Good", 2003 Effective Teaching and Learning Conference, Griffith University, 6-7/11/03.
• S.Kift "Legal Education: Will Modelling Engage the Learners in the Learning?" ATN 2002 Effective Teaching and Learning Conference, Brisbane, Dec 2002.
• S.Kift, "Assuring the Quality of Assessment: What are the Professional Development Opportunities for Casual Staff?" 2002 Evaluations and Assessment Conference, Brisbane, Dec 2002.
• S. Kift and D Nulty, "Closing the QA Loop on SEUs and CEQs: A Law Faculty Case Study" ATN Effective Teaching and Learning 2002, Brisbane, December 2002.
• S. Kift, "On-Line Teaching: QUT Faculty of Law" presentation to Australian Institute of Management (Qld & NT), QUT, 27/02/02.
• S. Kift, "Teachers without Frontiers: Blurring the Boundaries between online and face-to-face", OLT 2002 Interactions Conference, October 2002, Bardon Centre.
• S. Kift, "Sexual Offences: What the Code Now Provides", Qld Law Society CLE, September 2002.
• S.Kift, "Best Practice Teaching: Legal Education: More than a Dark Room and a Torch" invited presentation at Fifth Annual National Teaching Forum as AAUT Awards Finalist, Canberra, 3 December 2001.
• S. Christensen and S. Kift, "Developing the Transference of Generic Comprehension Skills to Legal Analysis within First Year Law" Published paper presented at Sixth Annual Legal Education Day, December 2000, Brisbane.
• S. Christensen and S. Kift, "Embedding Attitudinal Skills in Core Undergraduate Law Curriculum: Pointless and Hopeless or Worthwhile and Possible?" Published paper presented at Sixth Annual Legal Education Day, December 2000, Brisbane.
• S. Christensen and S. Kift, "From School to University: A Case Study in Law" Department of Education (Qld) New Basics Colloquium, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4 November 2000.
• S. Christensen and S. Kift, "Graduate Attributes and Competencies: A University Obligation?", Recognising Good Teaching Showcase, QUT, 2 August 2000.
• S. Christensen and S. Kift, "A New First Year for a New Millennium: Curing the First Year Virus in Y2K" paper presented at 5^th Annual Legal Education Day, Southern Cross University, Byron Bay, 6 December 1999.
• S. Kift and C. Crawford, "Teaching and Learning Law in the '90s: Some Strategies for Introducing Perspectives and Enhancing Life Long Learning Skills." Paper presented at 4^th Annual Legal Education Day, 7 December 1998, Bond University.
• S. Kift, "The Skill of Reflection in Learning By Doing", Paper presented at 3rd Annual Legal Education Day, 8 December 1997, Griffith University.

Other

• K. Gibbs, "Educating the Graduate Product", Lawyers Weekly , 22 April 2005 . See: http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/articles/80/0C02EC80.asp?Type=55&Category=1263
• M. Barnes, S. Kift and T. Walsh Submissions (oral and written) to CMC public Inquiry Seeking Justice: An Inquiry into the handling of sexual offences by the criminal justice system . See: http://www.cmc.qld.gov.au/INQUIRY_SEXUALOFFENCE.html
• Interview with D Carrick, ABC Radio National Law Report Relationships and the Law; Hanson and Ettridge , 9 September 2003 . See: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/lawrpt/stories/s941032.htm
• Australian University Teaching Committee (AUTC) 2002 Project Training, Support and Management of Sessional Teaching Staff . http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/SessionalTeaching/resources.html and http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/SessionalTeaching/case_studies.html
• October 1999, Independent Member for Nicklin, Mr Peter Wellington MLA (Qld): draft amendment to the Queensland Criminal Code to make QCC self-defence provisions more fitting to the situation of accused who has killed a violent and abusive partner in an act of self-defence. Outcomes:
  • Criminal Code Amendment Bill (No. 2) 1999 - see OQPC website [external pdf file]
  • The Member's Second Reading Speech (See Hansard, 27 October 1999, pp 4366-4370) [external pdf file]
  • The accompanying Explanatory Notes;
  • Member's response to the Scrutiny of Legislation Committee (See Parliament of Queensland Scrutiny of Legislation Committee, Alert Digest, Issue No. 2 of 2000, 14 March 2000).