Dr. Khamsum Kinley

Khamsum Kinley(Kinley), PhD, SFHEA

Learning and Teaching Designer
Centre for Collaborative Educational Excellence,
Griffith University,
Brisbane Australia
Email: infoATkkinley.com (replace (AT) with @)

Member of Australia Computer Society (ACS)
ACS Certified Professional
Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member of IEEE Computer Society

Dr Kinley is honoured to be recognised and awarded the 2024 Vice Chancellor’s Award (Winner) for Excellence in Enabling Teaching and Student Experience at Griffith University.

Dr Kinley obtained his PhD and Master of Information Technology from the Information Systems School at QUT, and a PG Certificate in Teaching Information Systems and a Bachelor of Education Secondary (Physics, Maths) from the Royal University of Bhutan.

Dr Kinley with a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) – awarded by HEA UK, has over 15 years of experience in digital learning design, technology-enhanced pedagogy, strategic project management, and teaching, training, development, and research both in Australia and overseas.

As a Learning and Teaching Designer within the CCEE at Griffith University, Kinley develops and designs student-centred and engaging learning experiences as well as build capacity development for staff.

He previously worked as a Learning and Teaching Consultant (Design) at the Griffith Business School (GBS) at Griffith University, where he had the privilege of designing and developing multimodal (blended and hybrid) approach courses as well as supporting high-quality, student-centred learning experiences that have garnered institutional recognition, including the 2024 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Enabling Teaching and Student Experience.

He also previously worked as a Digital Capability Advisor (formerly ICT Literacy Specialist) within the Library and Learning Services at Griffith University from April 2014 to April 2016,  where he received 2015 LLS Award for Application of an innovative idea or concept by a team for their project on ‘iPad instance feedback’. He also held various roles as an IT Sessional academic at the School of ICT at Griffith University and at the School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), as an IT Helpdesk Consultant at QUT, and as an IT Lecturer at the Paro College of Education, Royal University of Bhutan.

In addition to day-to-day professional work, Kinley also collaborates with other academics across the globe on research projects and scholarly papers, publishing 4 journal papers, and presenting and publishing over 10 conference papers. He is also passionate about community, charity and scholarly services as paper and PhD theses reviewer. Kinley is the Founder and President of Bhutan Australia Association (a nonprofit charity organisation) to enable people in Australia to support those in need in Bhutan. For detailed information about Kinley’s academic and professional experience and key skills, please see:

• Awards
• Publications
• Experiences
• Services
• CV (pdf)

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