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Dr Darren Pullen

Lecturer - Health Science and Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

BN, Grad Dip Admin & Info Sys, BEd, MA(Ed), MMedSci, PhD

Contact Details

Contact Campus Newnham Campus
Building Building A
Room Reference A230a
Telephone +61 3 6324 3037
Fax +61 3 6324 3048
Email Darren.Pullen@utas.edu.au

Teaching Responsibilities

Bachelor of Education

  • ESH340 Advanced Health & Physical Education
  • ESH452 Information Technology

Master of Teaching

  • EMT695 Personal Development and Health & Physical Education

Publications

(selected publications)

  • Cole, D. & Pullen, D. (Eds.). (2010). Multiliteracies in Motion: Current Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge.
  • Pullen, D., Baguley, M. & Gitaski, C. (Eds.) (2010). Technoliteracy, Discourse and Social Practice: Frameworks and Applications in the Digital Age. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.
  • Pullen, D. & Cole, D. (Eds.). (2010). Multiliteracies and Technology enhanced Education: Social Practice and the Global Classroom. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
  • Pullen, D., Baguley, M. & Marsden, A.  (2009). Back to Basics: Electronic Collaboration in the Education Sector. In J. Salmons &. L. Wilson (Eds).The Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy (pp. 205-222). Hershey: PA, Idea Group Reference, Inc.
  • Fluck, A., Pullen, D. & Harper, C. (2009). Case study of a computer-based examination system. Australian Journal of Educational Technology 25(4). Available online www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet25/fluck.html

Achievements

Awards and honours

  • 2010 University Teaching Merit Certificate
  • 2009 University Teaching Merit Certificate
  • 2008 University Teaching Merit Certificate
  • 2007 University Teaching Merit Certificate

Career summary

Darren has been an academic in the Faculty of Education at the University of Tasmania since 2005, having previously worked for the University as a Research Fellow in the School of Nursing and University Department of Rural Health. Darren currently designs, coordinates and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate units in Health Science and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in addition to supervising research students in those fields.

Darren has a unique and passionate approach to scholarship that greatly enhances teaching and student learning, promoting student engagement and a shared sense of life-long learning. He has successfully applied this approach in a range of teaching, student learning and research contexts. Through scholarship he has shared his work with others via peer reviewed work in a number of national and international publications and conferences.

Darren's academic career has built upon his previous roles as classroom teacher, administrator and ICT consultant. Prior to teaching Darren was a healthcare clinician, researcher and clinical health services team leader. Throughout his various roles he has built a strong sense of professional accountability and initiated many innovative approaches to education, training and community engagement. Given his innovative and engaging approach to teaching Darren has been the recipient of several teaching awards. 

Current and supervised projects:

  • Unit Management System (UMS)- a database to capture unit and course data and provide monitoring and reporting capabilities that interconnects with key university internal and external systems.
  • Hesketh Exam System for e-Assessment with Dr Andrew Fluck – developing an electronic examination system.
  • Australian students’ ICT use in middle school and at home- looking at student usage of technology for learning and personal pursuits.

Research interests

Darren's research interests and PhD are in the role that STS (Science, Technology and Society) and ISR (Information Systems Research) play in contributing to our use and understanding of ICT and organisational change.

Darren has worked as an academic and practitioner, focusing on how to integrate ICT development and organisational change. To that end Darren's field of study and practice has centred on working with multi-professional teams including practitioners, managers, technicians and end users in affecting integrated organisational change through contemporary and innovative uses of technology