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Dr. Melanie White, Academic Mentor, Arts, Design & Architecture

Dr. Melanie White, Academic Mentor, Arts, Design & Architecture

Dr. Melanie White  is a member of the Sociology/Anthropology stream in the School of Social Sciences. She brings empathy and generosity into the classroom, and successfully creates learning environments that encourage students to exhibit intellectual openness, rigorous scholarship, and ethical and reflective practice. Melanie inspires her students to make deep connections between their lived experience and sociological theory. This is achieved through teaching techniques that have been described by students as ‘effervescent’. Melanie is the proud recipient of numerous teaching awards.

In 2015, she received the UNSW Arts & Social Sciences Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, and in 2017, she received the UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2014, she published a co-authored journal article titled ‘Police, design, plan and manage: Developing a framework for integrating staff roles and institutional policies into a plagiarism prevention strategy" in the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 36(6) with Dr. Christopher Walker based on their collaboration into determining the conditions and remedies for student plagiarism and academic misconduct.

Email [email protected] to enquire if Melanie is available to mentor you. 

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