Professor Sue Gregory

Academic leadership and service

At UNE, Sue led the School of Education and held roles including Head of School, Education (for 8.5 years) Chair of Research (for 3 years), Higher Degree Research Course Coordinator (for 3 years), UNE Education Scholar and lecturer in ICT Education. She also led the School’s eLearning, ePedagogy and Innovations Research Network Group.

For more than a decade, Sue contributed to the NSW Council of Deans of Education, serving five years as Secretary and one year as Acting Vice President. She represented the Council on the NESA Teacher Education Forum Board and the Australian Council of Deans of Education as the NSW Dean representative.

Research and innovation

Since 2007, Sue has explored how virtual worlds and immersive environments can support teaching, learning and professional practice. Her work has included virtual classrooms, role-play and other learning spaces for students both on campus and online.

Her current Professorial Research Fellowship advances this work through the Augmented Intelligent Reality and Virtual Worlds (AIR-VW) Framework, bringing immersive technologies and artificial intelligence together to support responsive professional learning and rehearsal.

Scholarship and impact

Sue has secured more than $6.9 million in funding for projects and tenders and authored more than 200 publications. She has edited five books on teaching and learning in virtual worlds, four as lead editor.

Since 2009, she has chaired the Australian and New Zealand Virtual Worlds Working Group (VWWG). She is a Life Member of ASCILITE and served on its Executive from 2012 to 2025.

Recognition

Sue holds a Principal Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA). Her recognition includes the University of New England Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Leadership Excellence (Highly Commended) in 2025 and an OLT Citation in 2012.