Rate My Professor Filia Garivaldis

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).