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Associate ProfessorJoel Scanlan

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Adjunct Senior Lecturer

Law

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  • Adjunct Senior Lecturer
    Law
  • Off-Campus, Hobart, Tasmania

SUPERVISION AND TEACHING SUMMARy

Joel has taught across a wide range of ICT subject areas, including beginner through to expert levels of programming, web design, database development, web services and software design methodologies. However, Joel’s primary teaching area for the past ten years has been cyber security, focusing on cryptography, penetration testing, risk analysis and digital forensics.

Since 2019, Joel has focused on teaching and designing curriculum with a cybersecurity and IT focus within non-IT focused disciplines, primarily Health and Maritime. In late 2021 Joel joined AIHSM, continuing to build on his experience and focus within digital health, as an area. He is currently the course coordinator for the Masters of Health Information Management and teaches about privacy and cybersecurity.

Joel has taught cohorts of various sizes, from a handful of students to over 650. In the larger cohorts, this involved leading a team of multiple lecturers across two campuses and a team of up to 14 tutors. In addition to this onshore teaching, Joel has taught into offshore programs including 16 offerings in China (Hangzhou and Shanghai), and 5 offerings in Kuwait. He has been employed in teaching roles with CoSE, CoHM, CoBE and UC. He has also worked in teaching roles at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL) and has developed teaching materials for RMIT. He serves on the academic advisory board for the Information Technology programme at Holmesglen Institute in Melbourne.

Prior to 2019, Joel had been heavily involved in curriculum design, including the current Bachelor of Information and Communications Technology and the Master of Information Technology and Systems. He led the design of the Cyber Security major within the current Bachelor of ICT. In 2019, he was the program lead on designing the Associate Degree of Equipment Design and Technology, which will be offered in 2020 by the University College. He has also consulted on curriculum design relating to cybersecurity undertaken at interstate institutions.

Joel has been awarded several teaching merit certificates and has been nominated for teaching awards on multiple other occasions, and has presented at Teaching Matters. During 2020 and 2021 he coordinated the introduction and running of the compulsory Academic Integrity module for the Academic Division which was taken by all commencing UTAS students in those two years.

SUPERVISION & TEACHING

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Engagement with child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) - a wicked problem: Developing a monitoring framework paired with novel technology use to monitor and reduce the supply, demand and harms associated with CSAM
    23 May 2024
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Developing capability of aged care workforce in alignment to consumer’s need for integrated care
    20 Jan 2022
  • EXTERNAL PHD/MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Exploring Maritime Situation Awareness in the Context of Cyber Events
    10 Jan 2022
  • EXTERNAL PHD/MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Synergistic Simulation Curriculum for Maritime Education
    1 Oct 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Human Pose Estimation and Skeletal Action Recognition in CCTV
    8 Jul 2019 - 18 Dec 2024
    Jonathan William Ledur-Nield
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Risk Prediction using Natural Language Processing of Electronic Health Records in an Inpatient Forensic Psychiatry Setting
    21 Feb 2018 - 18 Dec 2025
    Duy Van Le
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    It Takes a Community: A citizen science lens for exploring informal information behaviour in tertiary ICT education
    1 Dec 2017 - 14 Dec 2023
    Meredith Ann Castles
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Traceability in the Southern Rock Lobster (SRL) Export Supply Chain: Investigating lobster grading and identification using low-cost image-based biometrics
    3 Nov 2016 - 13 Aug 2021
    Son Anh Vo
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    VOOM Model: Digital Learning Excellence in VET MOOCs
    13 Apr 2015 - 17 Aug 2019
    Rachael Maree Paton
  • UNIT COORDINATED
    Digital Health Privacy and Security Issues
    This unit explores the information security issues arising from technology use in the health care environment. Consideration is given to legal and ethical concepts and issues, with an emphasis on the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of health information. Students are provided the opportunity to apply their learning by undertaking a risk analysis and mitigation process related to the core business of a health organisation. Security standards and systems are discussed in context to protecting personal health information, including the limitations of the technology to support this.
  • COURSE COORDINATED
    Graduate Certificate in Digital Health
    The Graduate Certificate in Digital Health is designed to provide you with evidence-based skills to meet the current and anticipated need for skilled workers within the rapidly evolving health sector. Within the course you’ll gain invaluable experience and knowledge on the key concepts of health informatics, security and data, considering the decision-making power digital systems provide, while also considering the ethical, social and economic considerations.Â
  • UNIT COORDINATED
    Health Informatics in Practice
    This unit expands upon previously introduced concepts and extends the students knowledge of the integration of new digital media into healthcare with a particular focus upon person centred care and design. Students will use workplace experience to enhance learning and demonstrate real world applications of different digital media.
  • UNIT COORDINATED
    Health Informatics Research Methods
    Focused on the steps involved in planning and implementing a piece of research. The unit develops an understanding of the planning, implementation and reporting processes used in health informatics research. It includes issues relating to the determination of research questions, hypotheses, data collection and analysis methods. The ethics involved in planning, conducting and reporting research is an integral part of the unit. The unit includes the design of data collection tools and an introduction to quantitative and qualitative data analysis techniques. Students plan and develop a research proposal, including preliminary development of research instruments, but do not implement a research project.
  • COURSE COORDINATED
    Master of Health Information Management
    The health information workforce is a rapidly developing one. The Master of Health Information Management (MHIM) is an advanced course designed to provide you as current and future health information management professionals with rigorous training focused on issues of contemporary professional health information management practice.Recent industry reports and consultations have highlighted the health information workforce shortages. There is a need for appropriately qualified individuals; professional who have the skills and knowledge to fill decision-making roles to meet the increasingly complex nature of delivering and managing health services in a data-driven environment. This has become increasingly critical given the national move to Activity Based Funding, where hospitals must track their activity at all levels against agreed targets to optimise their funding. Added to that is the push for efficiencies in the system using digital health and, assistive and emerging technologies (electronic medical records, personalised electronic health records, digitalisation) which will only serve to intensify the need for this professional sector of the health workforce in the future.