BScAgr (Hons I), PhD, GCULT Steph is the current Associate Head of School – Learning & Teaching for the School of Agricultural, Environmental & Veterinary Sciences. As the Associate Head Learning & Teaching, she oversees learning and teaching activities, assessment, moderation and academic quality within the School, and chairs the School Assessment Committee. She contributes to the development and redesigning of subjects and courses within the school, working in conjunction with the Course Directors across all courses and disciplines. Between mid 2021 – mid-2023 she worked as a Course Director for the Animal & Equine Science courses, supporting students in their studies, undertaking course reviews, and review subjects and curriculum. Prior to commencing at CSU in 2006, Steph worked for the Victorian Department of Primary Industries in Hamilton, Victoria, as an animal nutritionist, and undertook her PhD through the University of Melbourne, exploring the physiological basis for variation in feed conversion efficiency in meat sheep. Steph has over 17 years of academic teaching experience and has specialised in teaching animal anatomy and physiology to first-year students in the Agriculture, Animal Science, Equine Science and Veterinary Technology degrees, along with endocrinology and digestive system physiology to second-year Veterinary Science students. She is particularly interested in the first-year experience and supporting students with the transition to university study. Steph’s research interests lie in two broad areas. Currently she is focused on the scholarship of teaching and learning across disciplines. However she also has a strong interest in ruminant nutritional physiology with a particular emphasis on energy metabolism, stress and the role of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis and the impacts this can ultimately have on animal production systems.
Animal Production and Welfare
Dr Stephanie Knott
Associate Head (Learning & Teaching)
Albury / Wodonga
Building 760, Room 233