Available to Advance HE Members only. Designed for the Australasia region.
Higher education in Australasia faces unique challenges – from evolving student needs to new regulatory pressures. Elevate Australasia addresses this by providing regionally-contextualised support designed for your institutional context.
Through our Spotlight Series, you’ll engage with core educational themes like assessment and internationalisation. Our Digital Showcase celebrates local teaching innovations, while our Principal Fellowship Network connects strategic leaders across the region. We’re not just adapting overseas frameworks – we’re translating proven Student Success strategies specifically for the Australasian context, giving you practical tools that align with PSF dimensions and support both your professional growth and student outcomes in our Elevate Pathway
Call for submissions is now open to enter. We invite submissions of case studies to be publicised in our Digital Showcase Publication. Available exclusively to Advance HE Members in Australasia, the deadline for submissions is 6 March 2026.
Spotlight sessions and Translating Student Success Framework events are now open for booking, designed to focus on challenges in the Australasia region, they are accessible to all Advance HE Members.
Why join Elevate Australasia?
Align your work with the Professional Standards Framework and gain sector-wide recognition for your teaching excellence.
Connect with educators across technological universities, research-intensive institutions and further education providers.
Learn from diverse teaching practices and discover new approaches to enhance your own educational impact.
Build your professional profile and create opportunities for collaboration and advancement across Australasia.
Project highlights
Spotlight Series
Join two dynamic 90-minute online sessions from April 2025 to May 2025. Share your innovative teaching practices with peers across Australasia, learn from diverse case studies, and gain valuable insights from student perspectives. Sessions are now open for bookings.
Digital Showcase
Curated publication that highlights innovative teaching practices from across the region. The initiative celebrates excellence and provides a platform for educators to share their work with the broader sector.
The Principal Fellowship Network
An exclusive forum created in response to regional demand to connect strategic teaching leaders. The online meeting provides a platform for collaboration with senior colleagues, opportunities to share and learn best practices and network with peers.
Elevate Pathways
Offers three online events focused on translating Advance HE’s Student Success Frameworks into the Australasian context. The sessions use personas and co-designed activities to help participants explore how the frameworks can be applied in their local institutional setting.
Call for Submissions
Before you begin, please take a moment to review the submission criteria outlined in the documentation below. Understanding these guidelines will help ensure your submission meets all requirements.
Advance HE’s Elevate Australasia series supports member institutions across Australasia in spotlighting impactful initiatives and advancing educational excellence. Sharing good practice and learning from experience are central to this work.
We invite submissions of short case studies that showcase recent practice aligned with the Professional Standards Framework (PSF) and one of our listed themes. These will be featured in our Excellence Showcase digital publication, and we will invite selected authors to present their case studies in one of three online ‘spotlight’ sessions across the region.
Deadline for submissions is on 6 March 2026.
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Elevate Pathways
Elevate Pathways offers three online events focused on translating Advance HE’s Student Success Frameworks into the Australasian context. The sessions use personas and co-designed activities to help participants explore how the frameworks can be applied in their local institutional setting.
Join hosts Dr Amy McHugh and Dr Elliott Spaeth and panellists as they discuss how the Framework for Education for Sustainable Development can support course teams to integrate ESD across programmes, help students identify the necessary competencies for sustainable citizenship, and develop comprehensive institutional approaches to create a sustainable learning environment
Using the Framework for Student Engagement through Partnership
Date: 12 March 2026
Time: UK 02:00, Sydney 13:00 and Perth 13:00
This session will highlight collaborative work from the University of Sydney, where students and staff came together to co-create a Student Partnership Charter. The first part of the session will explore the development of the Charter, reflecting on the co-creation process and the principles that underpin meaningful student–staff partnership.
The second part of the session will focus on the impact of this work in practice. Students will present initiatives that have emerged as a result of the Charter, sharing how partnership has shaped projects focused on belonging, assessment design, and inclusive classroom dialogue.
Together, the session will demonstrate how authentic partnership can influence culture, strengthen engagement, and enhance the student experience.
Contributors: Dr Maria Ishkova (SFHEA), Jessica Frawley, Ihan Samaraweera, Abigail Bobkowski, Daniel Park, Hannah Nguyen
Lead Associate – Student Success Frameworks
Dr Amy McHugh
Academic Facilitator at the National Centre for Cultural Competence, University of Sydney
Dr Amy McHugh is an Academic Facilitator at the National Centre for Cultural Competence at the University of Sydney, where she supports subtle but powerful shifts in how people think about culture, identity, and inclusion.
Dr Elliott Spaeth
Senior Consultant in Inclusive Education, Advance HE
Dr Elliott Spaeth is a visionary leader in the field of Inclusive Practice in Higher Education, with a particular focus on empowering staff to create psychologically safe environments for disabled and/or neurodivergent students.
Dr Maria Ishkova
Lecturer, University of Sydney
Maria is an education-focused Lecturer in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School. She spent more than 15 years working in organisational communications including more than 6 years as Chief Communications Officer and board member.
Spotlight Events
Project Timeline
- November 2025 – Call for participation opens – submit your interest and showcase submissions
- 5 March 2026 – Principal Fellowship Network inaugural meeting
- March – May 2026 – Translating Student Success Frameworks webinars
- April – May 2026 – Spotlight series
- June 2026 – Digital Showcase publication launched (TBC)
For an academic in Australasia, Elevate gives you what you have been looking for – practical, regionally-relevant professional development that actually connects to your teaching challenges.
Fiona Whittenbury – Head of Partnerships (Australasia) – Advance HE
You get access to proven Student Success strategies translated for your institution, plus a real community of Principal Fellows who understand the unique pressures you are facing. It’s support that recognises your expertise while helping you grow, with clear pathways that align with PSF dimensions and support your career progression.
