Sally Kift | Vice Chancellor’s Strategic Fellow
Victoria University

Professor Sally Kift is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (FAAL), and President of the Australian Learning & Teaching Fellows (ALTF). She has held several university leadership positions, including as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at James Cook University. Sally is a national Teaching Award winner, a national Program Award winner and a national Senior Teaching Fellow on the First Year Experience. In 2010, she was appointed an Australian Discipline Scholar in Law. In 2017, Sally received an Australian University Career Achievement Award for her contribution to Australian higher education. Sally was a member of the Australian Qualifications Framework Review Panel that reported to Government in September 2019. Since 2017, Sally has been working as an independent higher education consultant. From 2018-2021, Sally was a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE (now the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success (ACSES)) at Curtin University and she now chairs ACSES’s Grants and Fellowships Committee. Sally is currently a Vice Chancellor’s Strategic Fellow, Victoria University, a University of New South Wales Scientia Education Academy Visiting Fellow, and an Adjunct Professor at JCU, Queensland University of Technology and La Trobe University.