Julie Timmermans is a Senior Lecturer in the Higher Education Development Centre at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Julie is a teacher, researcher, and academic developer with experience facilitating learning in various universities and countries, including Canada, Japan, France, and now, New Zealand. Her research interests focus on academic development and threshold concepts. Julie has been a co-editor of the International Journal for Academic Development since 2020. 

In this conversation on the Scholarship of Educational Development, we speak with Julie Timmermans to learn how her experiences in multiple institutions and across countries has informed her work and her perspective as one of the Co-Editors of the International Journal for Academic Development.

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