Associate Professor Ron "Kim" Keamy is an Honorary Principal Fellow in the Faculty of Education.

Prior to his retirement, Kim was a teacher education researcher and lead author of an industry report entitled Start. And stay: Incorporating teacher wellbeing in initial teacher education.

Kim continues his collaborations with colleague researchers on a project entitled 'Academics Turning Points'.

Between 2017 and 2024, Kim was Director of the Assessment for Graduate Teaching (AfGT) Management Team, the AfGT being a teaching performance assessment developed by a national consortium of initial teacher education providers.

Kim's professional experience includes:

teaching in primary schools (including as a classroom teacher, a specialist physical education teacher and as a drama specialist);
special education (including as a classroom teacher and as a Special Education Consultant in the Gippsland Region);
community education (with a community volunteers' agency, project work in technology education, and as a loss and grief educator in a regional palliative care organisation);
vocational education (including adult literacy in prisons, and Indigenous education programs in TAFE institutes, and workplace training with the Uncle Tobys Company), and in
higher education (including the establishment and co-ordination of an academic skills support service and bridging program to support students from equity groups, and international teaching at La Trobe University's Albury-Wodonga Campus, and as Director of Learning & Teaching in the College of Education at Victoria University (Melbourne).

Kim's major research is in initial teacher education, teachers' professional learning, professional learning communities and educational leadership involving the use of arts-based and narrative research methods.

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