Mat Hardy is a Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, and the Director of Student Academic Integrity for the Faculty of Education. He is also the academic lead for the university's Advance HE fellowship program.

Mat’s current research focuses on academic integrity, with particular interest in staff workload in academic misconduct allegations, as well as assessment design, equity, and the ways institutional practices shape student engagement and ethical learning.

With over 15 years' teaching experience at the front line of tertiary and secondary learning, Mat was a Fulbright Scholar in 2021, undertaking research on how anonymous online learning tasks can increase equity in assessment.

With a previous career teaching Middle East Politics and History, Mat was the convenor of one of the largest and most complex online role-play learning tasks in the world. This Middle East Politics Simulation (MEPS) used a bespoke online environment to deepen learner understanding of the political intricacy of the region and create an empathy with its actors. A decade-long longitudinal study of this exercise also contributed towards Mat's publications on technology-assisted teaching and the institutional environments and barriers in play regarding greater adoption of technology by university teachers.

An interest in Work Integrated Learning and the use of student travel as a vocational learning opportunity saw Mat develop a Middle East Study Tour that employed alternative assessment strategies, whilst aiming to expose senior students to the types of careers they were interested in.

Mat also spent two years as a teacher of Global Politics, Ancient History and Humanities at a public high school, which supports his understanding and experience of quality teaching practices. An additional research interest has been the application of Orientalism in popular culture and fantasy worlds.

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