Nicole Vidovich

Director

Nicole is currently educating and involved in curriculum design in the Centre of Enabling Pathways at Curtin University across various STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematic) units.  In additional to this, she assists in program managing an outreach project from the centre. This project seeks to address the changing landscape of adolescent needs and concerns in education, by providing their schools with the ability to run an alternative direct pathway into university to the ATAR pathway.

Holding a Bachelor of Science and a Graduate Diploma of Education, Nicole commenced her teaching career in various low socioeconomic high schools across Perth. She has since worked in tertiary education for over a decade, with a passion and much of her experience in the equity space. Being ‘first in family’ to study at university herself, she truly views education as a large social determinant of health and happiness. She has had a long-standing involvement with the Curtin AHEAD (Addressing Higher Education Access Disadvantage) program and their aim to increase tertiary participation of high school students from underrepresented demographics through various access, awareness and aspiration initiatives.

She is a current member of professional bodies in this space (Equity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia (EPHEA)  and The National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia (NAEEA)); and has contributed work through publications in the journal of Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning and by presenting at multiple tertiary conferences across Australia.