Academic Staff

Dr Ken Avenell

Leadership

Dip Teach, Dip Theol, B. Ed., Grad. Dip ECE (Hons), M. Ed. Admin, Ed D, FAIM, FACEL, FQIEA, MAHRI, MACE, JP (Qual) Retired Director of Formation and Identity Toowoomba Catholic Education. Adjunct Lecturer Australian Institute of Theology

T: +61 2 9030 8638

ken.avenell@bbi.catholic.edu.au

Teacher, Principal, District Director, Senior Executive – Qld State Education

Senior Manager Leadership Development – Brisbane Catholic Education,

Director Formation and Identity – Toowoomba Catholic Schools (retired 2022).

Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL)

Queensland President (1998-2004); National President (2004-2006)

Awarded:

  • Queensland ACEL Excellence in Educational Leadership (2012)
  • National Nganakarrawa Award, “having earned the lasting respect and gratitude of peers” (2014)
  • Miller-Grassie Award in educational leadership (2015)
  • Griffith University Educational Leadership Research Award (2015)
  • Hedley Beare National Award for educational writing (2017)

Publications

“Over a forty-year period, Ken has authored in excess of a hundred articles in The Practicing Administrator and the Australian Educational Leader”

Crowther and Caldwell 2023

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