Marguerite Westacott
Lecturer, Tertiary Access Studies
School of Education and Tertiary Access
Email: mwestaco@usc.edu.au
Telephone: +61 7 5456 5912
Location: Sunshine Coast, SD J.5.03
Marguerite has a multidisciplinary background in Visual Arts, Education, Guidance and Counselling and Art Therapy; therefore, her work history has been in education, private practice, small business and the community sector; where she continues to volunteer. Her employment roles have included teaching, leadership, counselling, art therapy, consulting, curriculum development and governance.
In Marguerite’s role as a course coordinator and tutor at UniSC, she has enjoyed creating innovative learning experiences that include embedding mental health and wellbeing, game-based learning and career development into curriculum.
Research
Research Summary
Marguerite's multidisciplinary background has now culminated in her current PhD focus which is a study using art-led research to explore the implications of concepts from the field of Futures Studies on career education curriculum. Why? Because career is about human actions, and our actions have implications for the world we live in. Using a critical Futures focus, I am interested in whether our innate human anticipatory aesthetic towards futures, has potential to inform career education curriculum that could proactively meets the agency needs of more than human futures.