About the Director

Dr Kathryn Richardson B.A (Monash University), B.Teach(Hons), M.Ed, PhD

Dr Richardson is the founder and director of International Education Consultants Australia (IECA) Pty Ltd.

Experience

Kathryn teaches at the University of Melbourne in the areas of: statistics, curriculum and assessment; and, learning and teaching theory and practice.

Currently, she is developing an online subject in research statistics at the University of Melbourne.

She is currently teaching International Student Accommodation for the PIER Online Diploma Course.

Over the past ten years Kathryn has also taught in a range of government, private and language schools. From 2001-2003 she established an international student program at a private school in Melbourne.

As a teacher, Kathryn has taught both mainstream students and ESL students (international students, migrants and refugees). She has also has experience teaching a wide range of ages and abilities from prep to postgraduate levels.

Kathryn and her family have hosted homestay students from a variety of different backgrounds.

Study and Qualifications

Kathryn completed her Ph.D. research at the University of Melbourne, which investigated the welfare of adolescent international students attending secondary schools in Melbourne.

Through this mixed-method project it was found that there were two factors that determined an international students' sense of wellbeing.

These were 1) the international student program structures at each school, and 2) the students' belief in their English language proficiency.

In 2001 Kathryn completed her M.Ed at the University of Melbourne, which investigated the role of homestay hosts in the international education industry.