Our new Learning and Teaching Education Research Centre (LTERC) will identify and celebrate the 'underpinning' research required to drive and enhance teaching and learning at CQUniversity...

"What is exciting about this research centre is that for everyone involved in our core business, which is learning and teaching, we actually have an intellectual home through which we can value our work as educators," said the Centre Director, Associate Professor Bobby Harreveld.

Associate Professor Bobby Harreveld discussed the new centre with Vice-Chancellor Professor Scott Bowman

Speaking after LTERC's inaugural management committee meeting, Associate Professor Harreveld said "this centre gives a home for many of the activities that we have been doing ad hoc and unacknowledged".

"For everyone involved in our core business, which is learning and teaching, we actually have a intellectual home through which we can value our work as educators."

Associate Professor Harreveld said LTERC would find direction through the contextual conditions that characterise CQUniversity, namely: cultural diversity, multiple sites and multi-modal delivery techniques.

Management commitee member Dr Prue Howard said LTERC would enable knowledge to be taken from a whole range of disciplines.

"We'll be able to pull it together and learn from each other," she said.

"It's the one place in the University where all the different disciplines can share and learn from each other; which is why it will be transdisciplinary."

Associate Professor Harreveld said LTERC would engage with industry partners who have supported our students and who have funded our ongoing research endeavours.

The VC visits LTERC's management committee

"We have the capacity to value and enhance our research in our small regional and rural communities, with non-government organisations, large and small," she said.

LTERC is a newly formed research centre with a transdisciplinary focus in education research across the whole CQUniversity.