Communications Toolkit

About Jane GrellierVeronica GoerkeVeronika Goerke

Jane Grellier has coordinated the Communication Skills program in the Faculty of Media Society and Culture at Curtin University since 2000. She began working life as a secondary English teacher and then worked as a curriculum developer and educational writer in the fields of English and literacy. The Communication Skills program Jane coordinates is offered to 1600 students - mainly first-year students - in three divisions of the university in order to develop the skills they will need for success at university: skills in information literacy academic writing oral presentations and teamwork. Jane''s research interests include the teaching of writing and discipline-specific literacies. Veronica Goerke (PhD) is a senior lecturer at Curtin University who lives with her husband near her children and their families on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Boorloo (Perth Western Australia). Her ancestors all come from the Valtellina in northern Italy and her first language was a dialect from that region. Like Jane and Katie Veronica first worked as a secondary school teacher before moving into universities where she taught and coordinated communication skills as well as holding leadership roles in academic development and curriculum design. She has worked with Australian First Nation colleagues to cocreate and deliver reconciliation-related projects including intercultural staff training and on-country subjects for students. She has completed research into the first-year experience communication skills and students'' use of tablets for learning. However her key research focus is reconciliation in Australian universities. She believes we are all continually learning how to better communicate with each other so we can be more inclusive and respectful and thus enact real reconciliation and peace across the world.