Leanne is the Interim Pro Vice-Chancellor, Student Success while also the Director of Experience in the Pro Vice-Chancellor Student Success portfolio at UNSW Sydney. Leanne is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Management and Governance in the UNSW Business School where she was previously the Education Director of the Centre for Social Impact. Before joining UNSW, Leanne held a number of senior leadership and management positions at the University of Sydney. Leanne’s decades of higher education experience in program development and teaching include expertise in online learning and WIL. Leanne’s achievements in education and have been recognised locally, nationally, and internationally including an Australian College of Educators’ National Teaching Award. She is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA). Leanne is a graduate of The University of Oxford and The University of Sydney.
Leanne's most recent publications include:
- Winchester-Seeto, T., Ferns, S., Lucas, P., Piggott, L., and Rowe, A. (2024) ‘Intensive Work-Integrated Learning (WIL): The Benefits and Challenges of Condensed and Compressed WIL Experiences’, Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice.
- Ferns, S., Lucas, P., Piggott, L., Rowe, A., Winchester-Seeto, T. (2023) ‘WIL through the practice of short-term work placements and part-time placements and part-time field placements’ in International Handbook for Work-Integrated Learning, 3rd Edition, ed. K. Zegwaard and J. Pretti, Routledge, New York.
- Piggott, L. and Winchester-Seeto, T. (2022) ‘Ready for anything: adaptive curriculum design for interdisciplinary team projects in Work Integrated Learning (WIL)’ in Agile Learning Environments Amid Disruption: Evaluating Academic Innovations in Higher Education during COVID-19, ed. Golam Jamil and Dawn Morley, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland.
- Piggott, L. and Winchester-Seeto, T. (2022) ‘Case Study: The Practice of Work – University of New South Wales’ in Designing Learning for Intensive Modes of Study, Gayani Samarawickrema, Kaye Cleary, Sally Male and Trish McCluskey, Higher Education and Research Society of Australasia, Australia, pp. 64-66.
- Piggott, L. (2021) The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Timeless Struggle, 2nd Edition, Science Press, Sydney.
- Piggott, L. and Winchester-Seeto, T. (2020) 'Projects of Consequence: Interdisciplinary WIL projects designed to meet the needs of partners and students’, Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, vol. 17, no. 4, article 9.
- Winchester-Seeto, T. and Piggott, L. (2020) ‘“Workplace” or workforce: what are we preparing students for?’, Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, vol. 17, no. 4, article 11.
