Editorial Team
The Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching is supported by an international editorial team, associate editors, and editorial board members with expertise across applied learning, teaching, curriculum, pedagogy, digital education, leadership, and higher education scholarship.
Editors-in-Chief
Dr Jürgen Rudolph
Dr Jürgen Rudolph has spent three decades in higher education, earning 7,000+ citations and an h-index of 20. As Editor-in-Chief, he lifted the Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching into Scopus Q1, placing it in the top 5% in Education. He has produced more than 100 publications on AI, crisis leadership, pedagogy, and related fields. Formerly Director of Research and Learning Innovation at a private education institution in Singapore, he has developed institution-wide strategies for teaching, research, and AI adoption while sustaining strong student satisfaction across multiple modules. He has chaired more than 30 international symposia, built global partnerships, and co-authored Teaching Well with Routledge in 2023. Jürgen holds a PhD, MBA, MEd, and MA, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and brings substantial entrepreneurial and senior-leadership experience.
Emerita Professor Tania Aspland
Emerita Professor Tania Aspland has worked in higher education since 1980. Her scholarship spans teacher education, postgraduate pedagogy, thesis supervision of international students, productive pedagogies in higher education, curriculum studies, students of difference, curriculum leadership, professional development, and specialist studies in education.
Professor Aspland is the Editor-in-Chief of the open-access Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching and Vice President (Academic) with Kaplan ANZ. She was previously Dean and Professor of Education Policy and Strategy at Australian Catholic University, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education and Arts at ACU, and Professor and Dean of Education at the University of Adelaide. Her work has included curriculum development, accreditation, educational leadership, offshore engagement, community capacity building, and action learning across Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
Managing Editor
Dr Fiona Tang
Dr Fiona Xiaofei Tang, AFHERDSA, is Managing Editor of the Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching and TESOL in Context, the official journal of the Australian Council of TESOL Associations. She is also the inaugural Academic Learning Specialist at Kaplan Business School, Australia. Holding a PhD in Linguistics and an honorary Visiting Research Fellowship at the Australian National University, she brings extensive cross-sector experience in higher education across Australia and China. Her research and editorial work spans digital education, second language acquisition, flipped learning, textbook evaluation, and teacher professional development. She is also author/editor of Learnability of Grammar and both editions of Introduction to Society and Culture of Britain and America.
Digital Production Editor
Dr Sarah Low
Dr Sarah Low, AFHEA, is Digital Production Editor for the Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching and Curriculum and Scholarship Design Specialist at Kaplan Business School, Australia. She brings a decade of expertise across curriculum design, digital learning innovation, academic practice, and industry practice. She holds a PhD in leadership development, where she contributed a research-based definition of transversal leadership, and has published on effective adult learning methods. Her career spans higher education and health roles in Australia, Qatar, and Samoa. She supports JALT’s publishing workflows through high-quality digital production, accessibility, and editorial rigour.
Associate Editors
Dr Michael Agyemang Adarkwah, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Dr Stewart Alford, Kaplan Business School, Australia
Assistant Professor Sayan Dey, Bayan College, Oman
Assistant Professor Matthias Glowatz, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dr Jacinta Kelly, Kaplan Business School, Australia
Dr Lauren Knussen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Assistant Professor James Kwan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Singapore
Dr Kyriaki Koukouraki, King's College London, United Kingdom
Dr Lydia Lymperis, National Institute of Teaching, United Kingdom
Associate Professor Sanjeev Naguleswaran, Kaplan Business School, Australia
Dr Tarin Ong, Murdoch University, Singapore
Dr Caleb Or, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
Valentine Joseph Owan, University of Calabar, Nigeria
Associate Professor Mike Perkins, British University Vietnam, Vietnam
Faiza Qureshi, Murdoch University Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dr Felix Sanni, Fescosof Data Solutions, Nigeria
Pauline Seah, Amity Global Institute, Singapore
Dr Jennifer Skipp, Trier University & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Vanessa Stafford, Kaplan Business School, Australia
Dr Effie Steriopoulos, William Angliss Institute, Australia
Shannon Tan, Amity Global Institute, Singapore
Dr Yeap Peik-Foong, University of Newcastle, Singapore
Editorial Board Leadership
Chairperson
Dr Joseph Crawford, University of Tasmania, Australia
Deputy Chairperson
Dr Mohamed Fadhil, Kaplan Higher Education Academy, Singapore
Editorial Board Members
Professor James Adonopoulos, Kaplan Business School & Kaplan Professional, Australia
Professor Khairudin Aljunied, University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
Associate Professor Martin Andrew, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand
Professor Abhishek Bhati, Newcastle Australia Institute of Higher Education, Singapore
Dr Begüm Burak, MESA Global Academy, Turkey
Associate Professor Rob Burton, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Professor Kerryn Butler-Henderson, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Ailson De Moraes, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
Associate Professor Fotini Diamantidaki, UCL Institute of Education, United Kingdom
Lena Itangata, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Dr Margarita Kefalaki, Communication Institute of Greece, Greece
Dr Sin-Manw Sophia Lam, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Professor Bashar Malkawi, University of Arizona, USA
Dr Jane Murray, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Dr Florence Mwagwabi, Murdoch University, Singapore
Professor Justin O'Brien, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
Dr Orna O'Brien, University College Dublin, Ireland
Professor Can-Seng Ooi, University of Tasmania, Australia
Professor Michelle Picard, Flinders University, Australia
Dr Stefan Popenici, Researcher in Higher Education, Australia
Associate Professor Bina Rai, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Associate Professor Hasan Saliu, AAB College, Kosovo
Dr Sam Choon-Yin, Kaplan Higher Education Academy, Singapore
Dr Stevphen Shukaitis, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Dr Eunice Tan, Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore
Associate Professor Renée Tan, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore
Dr Samson Tan, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Professor Peter Waring, Murdoch University, Singapore