SEMINAR: Social Media in Academia

Abstract

During this seminar Amanda will discuss the roles of social media in academia: student engagement; public outreach; research dissemination; collaboration; academic promotion.

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Biography

Dr Amanda Meyer completed her Bachelor of Science double majoring in Anatomy & Human Biology and Physiology at UWA with first class honours in 2001. She completed her PhD between the School of Women's and Infants' Health and the School of Anatomy & Human Biology at UWA in 2006.

Amanda started Anatomy lecturing in February 2012 and since that time has coordinated 23 human gross anatomy units at Murdoch University. Since returning to UWA in November 2017, Amanda is teaching into and coordinating ANHB2217 Human Neurobiology & IMED1001 Form & Function and coordinating medical anatomy and teaching into the medical units IMED3001, IMED3002, IMED4443, IMED4211. Amanda is serving her second year on the council of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists. She is also a committee member for the Federative International Committee for Equality and Diversity in Anatomy and a financial member of the American Association of Anatomists. This year, Amanda joined the editorial board of the Anatomical Sciences Education Journal which is a Q1 journal in Anatomy.