Keith Trigwell became Director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Sydney in October 2006. He was previously Director of the Oxford Centre for Excellence in Preparing for Academic Practice, a Fellow of Kellogg College, and Reader in Higher Education at the University of Oxford.

He has a PhD in chemistry, university teaching experience in chemistry and education, has had seven joint ARC research grants and has published over 100 journal articles, conference papers and books, including Understanding Learning and Teaching: The experience in higher education, which is a summary of 10 years of learning/teaching research. His research work in Oxford and Sydney focuses on investigations into qualitative differences in university teaching and in the students’ learning experience, on teaching-research relations and the scholarship of teaching generally.

In the last few years he has given invited addresses on teaching-learning research in Spain, Slovenia, Switzerland, Finland, USA, Canada, Belgium, Ireland, Iceland and the UK. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Iceland, Co-president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Higher Education Special Interest Group Co-ordinator for the European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction, and in 2005 was appointed a co-ordinating editor of the international journal Higher Education.