SUSAN M. FETERIS

Lecturer First Year laboratory co-ordinator BSc(Hons) Physics, 1981 MSc Chemical Engineering, U of Melbourne, 1984 GradDipEd, HawthornIE, 1985 PhD Education, Monash University, 2008 Phone +61 (3) 9905 4180 FAX +61 (3) 9905 3637 Email:Susan.Feteris@sci.monash.edu.au

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Susan's current research interests include students' learning in undergraduate Physics laboratories, the participation and retention of minority groups (e.g. women in Physics or in Engineering), and the efficacy of training offered to university tutors and demonstrators.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Fitzgerald, M. T., Feteris, S. M., Gillessen, S. and Eisenhauer, F. Distance to the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy: An Experiment for Intermediate-Level Students Using Research Data and Professional Analysis Tools. AER 2008, 1 (7) 92-102.

Feteris, S. and Hutton, D.R., Astronomy Laboratory: What are we going to make today? Publ. Astron. Soc. Aust., 2000, 17, 113 - 115.

Mills, D., McKittrick, B, Mulhall, P. and Feteris, S. CUP: cooperative learning that works, Phys. Educ.,1999, 34 (1), 11 - 16.

Feteris S.M., Frew J.A. and Jowett A., Modelling the effect of froth depth in flotation. Int. J. Miner. Process., 1987, 20, 121-135.