Brett Shipton

Academic Staff

Dr Brett Shipton

BAdEd(HRD), MAdEd, GradDipPA(Policing), PhD

Senior Lecturer
Bathurst
Building 1400

Brett has a broad background in the criminal justice field, having been a member of the NSW Police for 15 years and a Corrections Education Officer for two years. His experience as an adult educator is spread over the past 30 years, including the past 16 years as a lecturer with Charles Sturt University. He has recently attained a position at the Centre of Law and Justice, after being a lecturer at the School of Policing Studies since 2006. His interest in adult education has led him to specialise in the applications of pedagogies in police academy learning, with a specific focus on problem-based learning and the role of facilitators in scaffolding effective learning. Brett also furthered his expertise in learning and teaching via a secondment to the Division of Learning and Teaching, where he was involved in developing approaches to teaching peer review and specialised teaching development subjects for police educators.

Teaching

Brett is involved with delivery of subjects in the Bachelor of Criminal Justice.

His current teaching responsibilities include:

  • Subject Convenor and teacher for JST318 Human Rights and Social Justice.
  • Designing the new subject of JST265 Advanced Studies in Policing.
  • Designing the new subjects of EEL409 Developing as a Police Educator and EEL416 Learning and Teaching in a Policing Context within the Graduate Certificate of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (GCLTHE).
  • Delivery of JST320 Drugs, Crime and Society.

Research

Brett’s doctoral research focused on the teaching and teaching development experiences of police educators. This research was motivated by the need to inform teaching development in police education and improve the application of learner-centred practice.

Brett is currently writing a book titled Signature pedagogies in police education: Teaching recruits to think, performa and act with integrity.

He is currently looking forward to working collaboratively with other academic staff from the Centre for Law and Justice and the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security to further police related research.

Memberships

Brett is a Senior Fellow and member of Advance HE Connect.

He is also a member of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) and the Police Society for Problem-Based Learning (PSPBL).