VET NATIONAL TEACHING &
LEARNING CONFERENCE 2024

Good People in a Complex System: Professor Susan James Relly is the Head of the School of Education; Faculty of Arts, Business, Law, and Economics, at the University of Adelaide. Susan completed a Bachelor of Education at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and read for a MSc in Comparative and International Education and a DPhil in Education at the University of Oxford. Susan’s entire career has been in education in various forms: she taught in secondary schools in Australia and England before starting her academic career. She is an Honorary Research Fellow and former Deputy Dean of the Department of Education and Associate Head (Education) of the Social Sciences Division at the University of Oxford. Her research interests are in the areas of technical and vocational education and training policy, vocational excellence, apprenticeship, the tertiary landscape and skills economy.