Dr Carl Sherwood completed a Bachelor of Engineering - Civil (UQ, 1984) and practiced as a professional engineer for 15 years. After completing an MBA (UQ, 2001), he worked for the UQ Business School and began investigating how to equitably support the learning of diverse student cohorts in large classes. By 2007, he joined the UQ School of Economics as a Teaching Focussed Academic, completed a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (UQ, 2013), and has been the Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Economics (2019-2021). His research has involved developing and evaluating the impact of blending learning activities and face-to-face lectures for students in large introductory statistics and microeconomics courses. Most notably, with over a decade of pioneering research into the development of students’ own contextualised storytelling as a pedagogy for introductory statistics, his work has been recognised with a UQ Teaching Excellence Award (UQ, 2015), an Australian Award for Teaching Excellence (2017) and through his PhD (UQ, 2020).
Achievements and Awards
Funded Projects
Other outputs (in THE Campus - Times Higher Education)
Conference Publication: How to write for campus: Establishing your institution and yourself as a thought leader
Compton, Eliza, Sherwood, Carl and Wang, Jack (2023). How to write for campus: Establishing your institution and yourself as a thought leader. Times Higher Education Campus Live ANZ, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 1-2 June 2023.
Journal Article: Tips for adopting the right technology for blended learning
Raiti, John and Sherwood, Carl (2023, 05 01). Tips for adopting the right technology for blended learning Times Higher Education Campus 1-1.
Conference Publication: Student storytelling and making sense of statistics: research methodology insights
Sherwood, Carl (2022). Student storytelling and making sense of statistics: research methodology insights. ICOTS 11, Rosario, Argentina, 11–16 September 2022. The Hague, Netherlands: International Association for Statistical Education. doi: 10.52041/iase.icots11.t8e1
(2009–2010) UQ New Staff Start-up Grants (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)
(2008–2010) UQ Teaching & Learning Strategic Grants
Business analytics and statistics
Black, Ken , Asafu-Adjaye, John , Burke, Paul , Khan, Nazim, King, Gerard, Perera, Nelson , Papadimos, Andrew, Sherwood, Carl and Wasimi, Saleh (2019). Business analytics and statistics. Milton, QLD, Australia: John Wiley & Sons Australia.
Australasian business statistics
Black, Ken, Asafu-Adjaye, John, Burke, Paul, Khan, Nazim, King, Gerard, Perera, Nelson and Sherwood, Carl (2013). Australasian business statistics. 3rd ed. Milton, QLD, Australia: John Wiley & Sons.
Tips for adopting the right technology for blended learning
Raiti, John and Sherwood, Carl (2023, 05 01). Tips for adopting the right technology for blended learning Times Higher Education Campus 1-1.
Sherwood, Carl and Makar, Katie (2022). Students making sense of statistics through storytelling: a theoretical perspective based on Bruner’s narrative mode of thought. Mathematics Education Research Journal, 1-35. doi: 10.1007/s13394-022-00440-y
Sherwood, Carl (2022). Widening access and participation for learning introductory microeconomics: using students' own contextualised storytelling. Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 24 (2), 94-106. doi: 10.5456/wpll.24.2.94
Class attendance and learning outcome
Kwak, Do Won, Sherwood, Carl and Tang, Kam Ki (2018). Class attendance and learning outcome. Empirical Economics, 57 (1), 1-27. doi: 10.1007/s00181-018-1434-7
Tutor selection process and student learning experience
Sherwood, Carl, Tang, Kam Ki, Yin, Zi and Phan, Le Hoa (2018). Tutor selection process and student learning experience. Australasian Journal of Economics Education, 15 (1), 8-28.
Sherwood, Carl and Kwak, Do Won (2017). New insights into an old problem – enhancing student learning outcomes in an introductory statistics course. Applied Economics, 49 (56), 5698-5708. doi: 10.1080/00036846.2017.1332750
Selecting sessional tutors: a new and effective process
Sherwood, Carl W. and Littleboy, Bruce (2016). Selecting sessional tutors: a new and effective process. Australasian Journal of Economics Education, 13 (1), 30-48.
Assessing the Impact of Blended Learning on Student Performance
Kwak, Do Won, Menezes, Flavio M. and Sherwood, Carl (2014). Assessing the Impact of Blended Learning on Student Performance. Economic Record, 91 (292), 91-106. doi: 10.1111/1475-4932.12155
How to write for campus: Establishing your institution and yourself as a thought leader
Compton, Eliza, Sherwood, Carl and Wang, Jack (2023). How to write for campus: Establishing your institution and yourself as a thought leader. Times Higher Education Campus Live ANZ, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 1-2 June 2023.
Student storytelling and making sense of statistics: research methodology insights
Sherwood, Carl (2022). Student storytelling and making sense of statistics: research methodology insights. ICOTS 11, Rosario, Argentina, 11–16 September 2022. The Hague, Netherlands: International Association for Statistical Education. doi: 10.52041/iase.icots11.t8e1
Storytelling and teaching statistics
Sherwood, Carl (2018). Storytelling and teaching statistics. ICOTS 10, Kyoto, Japan, July 8 - 13. International Association for Statistical Education.
Whom should (still) attend lectures and tutorials?
Kwak, Do Won, Sherwood, Carl and Tang, Kam Ki (2017). Whom should (still) attend lectures and tutorials?. OZCOTS , Canberra, ACT, Australia, 8-9 December 2016.
Sherwood, C. and McCredden, J. (2010). Using pictorial icons and interactive online scenarios (SBLi) to help understanding and to create experiential learning environments in introductory statistics. Australasian Teaching Economics Conference (ATEC): Frontiers in Economics Teaching, Hamilton, New Zealand, 28-29 June 2010.
Engineers studying economics are reaping the benefits
Dorney, G., Sherwood, C. W. and Gannon, M. (2022, 01 25). Engineers studying economics are reaping the benefits create
First year university students making sense of statistics through storytelling
Sherwood, Carl (2020). First year university students making sense of statistics through storytelling. PhD Thesis, School of Education , The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/bc4f745
Assessing the impact of blended learning on student performance
Kwak, Won Do, Menezes, Flavio and Sherwood, Carl (2013). Assessing the impact of blended learning on student performance. School of Economics Discussion Paper Series. 494. School of Economics, University of Queensland.
(2009–2010) UQ New Staff Start-up Grants (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)
(2008–2010) UQ Teaching & Learning Strategic Grants