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Email sheena.townsend@otago.ac.nz

Townsend_Sheena

Phone 64-3-479-7970

Teaching

Research Interests

  • Teaching and Learning - Student Motivation and Engagement and Feedback Literacy
  • Heterozygosity fitness correlations
  • The effects of inbreeding on reproductive success in small populations

Publications

Detoni, M., Allan, A., Connelly, S., Summerfield, T., Townsend, S., & Shephard, K. (2024). University teachers’ perspectives on student attendance: a challenge to the identity of university teachers before, during and after Covid-19. Educational Research for Policy & Practice. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10671-024-09375-6 Journal - Research Article

Shephard, K., Townsend, S., Allan, A., Luong, H., & Trotman, T. (2022). Student attendance: Before, during and after a pandemic. In E. Heinrich, A. Jolley & L. Rowan (Eds.), Proceedings of the Tertiary Education Research in New Zealand (TERNZ) Conference. (pp. 66-68). HERDSA Aotearoa/New Zealand. [Abstract] Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

O'Byrne, C., McIntyre, G., Townsend, S., Schonthal, B., & Shephard, K. (2018). Can ‘pooling teaching tips’ be more than ‘pooling teaching tips’? Tertiary Education & Management, 24(4), 351-361. doi: 10.1080/13583883.2018.1465117 Journal - Research Article

O'Byrne, C., Schonthal, B., Shephard, K., Lie, C., & Townsend, S. (2016). Exploring the value and potential of peer-led models of teacher education. Proceedings of the Tertiary Education Research in New Zealand (TERNZ) Conference. Retrieved from http://herdsa.org.nz/ternz/2016 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Townsend, S. M., & Jamieson, I. G. (2013). Inbreeding influences within-brood heterozygosity-fitness correlations (HFCs) in an isolated passerine population. Evolution, 67(8), 2299-2308. doi: 10.1111/evo.12113 Journal - Research Article

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