Dr Jill Bamforth

Biography

Dr Bamforth is Academic Director for Work Integrated Learning in the Faculty of Business and Law where she works with academics and industry to support students’ successful transition into work.  Jill enjoys working at the interface of academic theory/knowledge and real world experience.  She draws upon 20 years of experience in business consulting, business development and teaching to develop, deliver and convene first and final year undergraduate and postgraduate business units for domestic and international multimodal delivery. In 2019 Jill was part of a team awarded a Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Excellent Award (Higher Education) for the development and implementation of a Student and Industry responsive model for Work Integrated Learning. 

Jill’s research explores how individuals and businesses can proactively and positively respond to complex environments.  Her research interests include entrepreneurship, digital identity, change and risk management and stakeholder engagement. She is an Associate of the Smart Cities Research Institute in the Future Spaces for Living research area where she leads a project investigating how to safeguard digital identities in a smart city using emerging self-sovereign identity technology. 

Within the community Jill is proud to be an active Reference Group Member for the charity WomenCan which links communities of women to TAFE based vocational training and employment opportunities to build their financial autonomy. She was instrumental in shepherding WomenCan's early formation in 2019 to the realisation of two viable trading entitites - a charity (https://www.womencanaustralia.org/) and a social enterprise (https://www.womencanfacilitiesservices.com.au/).