PRESENT POSITION:
Lecturer

CAMPUS:
Burwood

ROOM:
lb3.108

TELEPHONE:
+61 3 9244 5047

FAX:
+61 3 9244 5533

EMAIL:
a.burch@deakin.edu.au

• In 2008 Tony was appointed as a Fellow of The Deakin College of Distinguished Educators for a 3 year period; in 2007 he was a Professional Development Fellow of the Deakin Institute of Teaching and Learning researching and publishing in the area of the scholarship of teaching and learning; and in 2006 Tony received a Deakin Faculty of Business and Law Award for “Rewarding and Promoting Excellent Teaching”.
• At Deakin Business School Tony has taught the unit MPA701 Accounting for 5 years and is currently unit-chair; has participated in the delivery of units MPA711 and MPA751; and in the delivery of a number of MBA and
  Corporate residential programs, both in Australia and overseas.
• As a Visiting-Fellow in January/February 2006 Tony took part in research workshops at the University of Lancaster UK and presented 2 working papers.
  
• Prior to joining Deakin Business School Tony was a career senior manager in industry with positions as varied as General Manager, Production and Sales Manager, Internal Auditor and Deputy Finance Director. This included a number of community activities such as a president and director of a chamber of commerce, director of an industry association, industry-representative member of an industrial tribunal, president of a community apprenticeship group, and so forth.
• At RMIT University Tony served on a committee over-seeing the development of a significant body of research into the future of the publishing industry, and served on a committee to develop an industry-focussed degree program for RMIT’s school of the International Centre of Graphic Technology. For this latter committee Tony also wrote the cornerstone unit (Print in the Media Spectrum) for that degree and taught that unit to the inaugural student cohort. Also at RMIT Tony was a guest lecturer for undergraduate and post graduate units at the school of Applied Communication, and assisted in the delivery of a postgraduate unit on E-Business at the school of Business IT.

Published journal papers

Burch, T., and Nagy, J., (2007), ‘Tipping points in online-mediated learning environments’, The International Journal of Learning,

Burch, T., and Nagy., (2007) ‘The Demands of Social-presence and Teacher-presence in online Learning Environments: Limitations of Printed Text’, The International Journal of the Book,

Burch T., (Aug 2004) ‘Hegemony of Printed Books in Tertiary Education: A Concept Under Challenge’. The International Journal of the Book.

Published book chapters

Burch T. , (2002) ‘POD Trials in the Australian Tertiary Education Sector’ in Cope & Mason eds, New Markets for Printed Books, Common Ground Publishing, Melbourne.

Burch T. , (2002) ‘Supply Chain Dynamics Around Print on Demand in Australia’ in Cope & Mason eds, New Markets for Printed Books,
Common Ground Publishing, Melbourne.

Journal paper submitted and accepted for publication

Nagy, J., and Burch, T., (2008) Communities of practice in academe (CoP-iA) –understanding academic work practices to enable knowledge building capacities in corporate universities, Oxford Review of Education. This Tier 1 Journal has accepted this paper and it will be published in printed form in early 2009 (Vol 35 (2)) but will also be published online sometime during 2008.

Journal papers submitted and outstanding

Burch, T., (2008), A Shift in the Learning Strategiesof Mixed-Cohort Postgraduate Accounting Students: Cause and Consequence, People and Place, Monash University.

Burch, T., Nagy, J., Holt, D., and Samarawickrema, G., (2007), A Framework for Situating Communities of Practice in Academe (CoP-iA) in Organisational and Academic Development: a case study of an Australian university, The International Journal of Academic Development

Conference paper presented and ready for submission to a journal

Burch, T., (2006), Who Controls Knowledge in Knowledge-Based Economies? Accepted at the ACKMIDS Conference, Monash University, December 2006.
This lengthy paper is to be re-worked for Journal Submission, 2008.

Journal papers under development

Burch, T., and Starr C., Intervention in Student Progressive-learning strategies in an Undergraduate and a Postgraduate Degree Unit Across Two Universities to Influence Student Outcomes. This is a joint work of research between myself and an academic at the University of Southern Queensland, available for publication mid 2008.