Rate My Professor Filia Garivaldis

Filia Garivaldis is a Senior Lecturer at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI), Course Director and Convenor of the Master of Behaviour and Systemic Change, and co-founder of the C21 Educational Research Lab at Monash University. She holds a PhD from Monash University, focused on self-regulation ability in the pursuit of personal goals and the moderating effect of implicit emotion. With more than 20 years of international experience in higher education, specializing in behavioural science, psychology, and online education, she was previously Senior Lecturer at Regent’s University London, where she developed an MSc in Occupational and Organisational Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society. Returning to Monash, Garivaldis co-developed Australia’s first fully online accredited fourth-year psychology course, the Graduate Diploma of Psychology Advanced, expanding enrolments from 87 to over 900, and created the Psychology Research Portal, recipient of the Dean’s Award for Technological Innovation in Learning and Teaching in 2019. She also led an Inter-Faculty Transformation Project funded by the Monash Education Academy to build the university’s first university-wide online student orientation resource.

Since joining MSDI and BehaviourWorks Australia in 2019, Garivaldis has led development of behaviour change education initiatives, including the micro-credential “Applying Behavioural Science to Create Change” (Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Industry and Community Education Programs, 2023), a series of behaviour change skills courses, and a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) endorsed by the UN SDG Academy. An active member of Monash research groups, her work applies behavioural insights to enhance teaching and learning in online and face-to-face modalities. Key publications include co-editing the textbook “Tertiary Online Teaching and Learning: TOTAL Digital Education Perspectives and Resources” (Springer-Verlag, 2020) with Monash and King’s College London colleagues; leading a Special Issue on online education in the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (2022); “Out of sight, but not out of mind: a case study of the collaborative development of a university-wide orientation resource for online students” (Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022); “Psychology education and work readiness integration: A call for research in Australia” (Frontiers in Psychology, 2021); and “The effect of familiar music on the perception of other individuals” (Psychomusicology, 2007), awarded by the Monash Research Graduate School. She was shortlisted twice for Business in Higher Education Round Table awards (2018, 2019).