Ms Karen Seary Academic Learning Services Unit

McConachie, J, Seary, K & Simpson, J 2008, ' Students' perceptions of a quality preparaty program at an Australian regional university : success through changing worldviews' in J McConachie, M Singh, P A Danaher, F Nouwens and G Danaher (eds), Changing university learning and teaching: engaging and mobilising leadership, quality and technology, Post Pressed, Teneriffe. pp. 87-106. http://hdl.cqu.edu.au/10018/29210

Willans, J, McIntosh, S, Seary, K, & Simpson, J 2006, 'Shedding past notions of marginalised education: How understanding learning styles can transform perspectives on learning' in J McConachie, B Harreveld, J Luck, F Nouwens, P Danaher (eds), Doctrina Perpetua : brokering change, promoting innovation and transforming marginalisation in university learning and teaching, Post Pressed, Teneriffe. pp. 173-187. http://hdl.cqu.edu.au/10018/6808

Willans, J & Seary, K 2011, 'Aspirations and attainments: tensions in the ��borderland��, the place of becoming.' in C Klinger & N Murray (eds.) Aspirations, access, attainment: adding value & transforming lives through widening participation: 1st International Australasian Conference on Enabling Access to Higher Education 2011, 5-7 December, University of South Australia, Adelaide

Willans, J & Seary, K 2011, 'Bridging the divide: Scaffolding the learning experiences of the mature age student,' in J Terrell, (ed.) Making the links: Learning, teaching and high quality student outcomes, proceedings of the 9th conference of the New Zealand Association of Bridging Educators, 29 September-1 October, 2010, Wellington, New Zealand, Department of Foundation Studies, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland.

Willans, J & Seary, K 2009, 'I feel like I'm being hit from all directions - enduring the bombardment as a mature age learner returning to formal learning' in Bedford, T, Huijser, H & Muller, S (eds.) 2009 Enabling Pathways - Proceedings of the 3rd National Conference for Enabling Education. University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia, 25-27 November, 2009, pp. 1-16, (viewed 4/6/2010) http://www.usq.edu.au/~/media/USQ/Open%20Access%20College/Karen%20Seary%20NAEE%20paper%202009%20updated%202.ashx

Seary, K, Flanders, M & Palu, M 2008, 'STEPS toward retention: a case study', paper presented at the First Year in Higher Education Conference: An Apple for the Learner: Celebrating the First Year Experience, Hobart, Tasmania, 30th June - 2nd July.

Willans, J & Seary, K 2011, 'I feel like I��m being hit from all directions: enduring the bombardment as a mature age learner returning to formal learning', Australian Journal of Adult Learning, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 119-142.

Willans, J & Seary, K 2007, ''I��m not stupid after all�� �� changing perceptions of self as a tool for transformation', Australian journal of adult learning, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 433-452.

Seary, K & Willans, J 2004, 'It's more than just academic essays and rules of mathematics: travelling the road with heroes on the STEPS journey as they convert the milestones of their learning journey into signposts for their future', Australian Journal of Adult Learning, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 306-326.