Dr Ruth Fazakerley
Manager, Education Quality
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Academic Academic Quality and Integrity Education Quality

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Adelaide University
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Ruth Fazakerley is a Manager, Educational Quality in the Academic Portfolio. Ruth manages a team working with academic staff to facilitate the adoption, implementation and monitoring of the University's educational quality assurance and continuous improvement framework. With extensive experience working in higher education settings Ruth additionally provides scholarly and project management support to a wide range of teaching and learning projects. 

Ruth maintains an active research interest in the field of contemporary visual art and is a current HDR Supervisor. Her visual art career is underpinned by a sustained engagement with the theory, policy, management and professional practice of art in public spaces - as an artist, professional, writer and researcher. Her track record of research outputs includes creative works, academic publications, commissioned articles, exhibition essays, reviews and reports, including contributions to NAVA's 2020 revised Code of Practice for the Visual Arts, Craft and Design (Commissioning Art in Public Space).

As Academic Developer at the UniSA (2010, 2015-22), Ruth worked collaboratively across a range of organizational levels to foster teaching excellence, innovation, and the scholarship of learning and teaching. Over this period, she designed and delivered staff training, programs, events and resources; managing a range of teaching & learning award and grant schemes, the Summative Peer Review of Teaching program, Academic Integrity Officer induction, and the recording and reporting of student academic misconduct. As part of an interdisciplinary team, Ruth contributed to the design and production of multiple online courses, professional certificates and degree programs. Her team were recognized with the 2019 Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Australia New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) for the design of highly engaging, authentic, industry-informed and scaffolded, online learning experiences for students in a new Bachelor of Criminal Justice.

Last updated on 26/02/2026 by Ruth Fazakerley