Online Symposium: Employability and Risk Management in an Online Environment

Andrew Stewart is the John Bray Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide and a consultant to the law firm Piper Alderman. A leading expert on employment law and workplace relations, he has undertaken groundbreaking research on internships and other forms of work experience for the International Labour Organization, the federal Department of Employment and the Fair Work Ombudsman. Along with Adelaide Law School colleagues Rosemary Owens, Anne Hewitt and Joanna Howe, he has been examining how Australian universities deal with the regulatory issues and risks associated with work experience programs, as part of an Australian Research Council-funded Discovery project.

Dr Dino Willox is Director, Student Employability, at The University of Queensland and a Principal Fellow of AdvanceHE. They are responsible for developing and coordinating the strategic direction, framework, and services that assist students to become game-changing graduates. Working in partnership with internal and external stakeholders, Dino’s work spans professional, academic, and extracurricular spaces, taking a multidimensional strategic approach to embedding employability. Dino is also Chair of the Employability Group and a member of the Student Experience and Global Mobility Groups for Universitas 21 (U21), a global network of research-intensive universities. Dino’s pronouns are they / them.

Beau Leese is the co-founder & co-CEO of Practera, an experiential learning edtech company which supports a range of programs helping students  develop real world skills for the jobs of tomorrow. Practera has enabled award winning, collaborative programs linking more than 70% of Australian Universities and tens of thousands of students with Government, Business and Community organisations. Prior to Practera, Beau was Head of Strategy, Performance & Innovation for the CSIRO, Australia’s national R&D Agency, and co-founded CSIRO’s startup program – CSIRO ‘ON’ which helped provide entrepreneurship training across Australia’s research workforce and catalysed the development of 53 new deep tech companies. Beau was formerly national lead Director for Higher Education with Deloitte Consulting, co-founded two other technology startups and worked in commercialisation & program development for an Australian University. Beau holds a Bachelor of Laws, Masters of Marketing and is a Member of the AICD.