Kathy Darzanos

Teaching Strengths

Systems Analysis
IT Project Management
Course Coordination
Teaching Squares
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Mrs Kathy Darzanos

Lecturer

School of Computer Science and Information Technology

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Hello and welcome to my homepage. I have been employed at UniSA since 1998. I am a teaching-focussed Lecturer, the Lead Academic Integrity Officer and Teaching Squares Facilitator in UniSA STEM.
I have designed, developed, coordinated and taught a number of courses across two Academic Units within the University, in various modes, at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, and across numerous local and international institutions. I have significant experience in teaching large first year courses where I manage a team of staff and provide leadership and direction to the team in order to deliver a consistent, quality, engaging and transformative learning experience to students. I have also recently completed my Professional Certificate in University Teaching at UniSA.
I am passionate about developing supportive and inclusive learning environments and supporting students in their first year or transition to UniSA, at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level. I believe in creating and fostering a positive student learning culture and I was one of the inaugural course coordinators to work with staff and past high achieving students to pilot and implement the Peer Assisted Study Program (PASS) in first year IT courses. This internationally recognised program has subsequently been extended to support students across multiple STEM Programs.
I am engaged in various activities contributing to the creation of the new Adelaide University, including the development of new courses, being a member of the AU IT Service Management (ITSM) Stakeholder Working Group, the AU Academic Integrity Working Group, and the Curriculum Quality Panel (CQP) as a UniSA panel member for IT Programs.
I am a member of a range of professional bodies including Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA), Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), and the Australian Computer Society (ACS). I am also a member of Higher Education Research Group Adelaide (HERGA) and the UniSA Higher Education Research Network (HERN), whilst also promoting HERN within my Academic Unit as a STEM HERN co-sponsor.
I am also a co-investigator in a UniSA Unstoppable Teaching and Learning Development Grant (2025-2026) for a project titled Ethical Professionalism: A Values Focus, that aims to progress the development of a value sensitive design-based learning tool to improve ethical professionalism and data literacy among students.

2025: Darzanos, K. & Fernando, A. T. J., (2025). A complexity-informed, feedback loop approach for systems analysis IT education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Learning Letters: Special Issue on Navigating Complexity in STEM Education: Adaptive and Experiential Learning.

2025: Harmon, J., Weiler, T., Darzanos, K., Bridgewater, A., & Brown, A. (2025). Teaching squares: interdisciplinary reflection to enhance academic practice for student learning. UniSA. https://doi.org/10.25954/pgtn-n196.

2025: Brown, A., Weiler, T., Darzanos, K., Bridgewater, A., & Harmon, J. (2025). Teaching squares: participant guide. UniSA. https://doi.org/10.25954/pgtn-n196.

2025: Fernando, A. T. J., Darzanos, K., Evans, N. & Sim, S. M. (2025). Towards a Value Sensitive Design (VSD) based learning tool to facilitate ethical considerations when developing responsible technologies [Extended abstract]. ETHICOMP Conference, Portugal.

2024: Bridgewater, A., Darzanos, K., Weiler, T., & Harmon, J. (2024, 27-30 Oct). Collegial interdisciplinary observation via Teaching Squares [Poster Presentation]. 9th International Nurse Education Conference, Singapore.

2024: Fernando, A., Darzanos, K., Wahlstrom, K., & Evans, N. (2024). Developing Ethical IT Professionals: A Focus on Values in the Age of AI [Workshop]. HERGA Conference, UniSA, 24 Sept 2024.

2024: Butler, M., Darzanos, K., Giles, E., & Tan, K. (2024). Human-in-the-Loop: Perspectives from Health and STEM academics [Workshop]. HERGA Conference, UniSA, 24 Sept 2024.

Year Citation
2011 Quinn, D., Duff, A., Brodie, T., Darzanos, K., Smith, E., Carmody, M., . . . Dansie, B. (2011). Indigenous knowledge, cultural awareness and communication skills for information technology, engineering, mathematics and environmental disciplines. In J. D. Yorke (Ed.), 2011 Meeting the Challenges: Proceedings of the ATN Assessment Conference. Australia: Curtin University of Technology.
2010 Darzanos, K., Campbell, A. P., & Scott, W. R. (2010). Development of an agent-based model representing the behaviour of a systems engineering driven organisation. In SETE 2010 : proceedings. Adelaide, South Australia: Systems Engineering Society of Australia.
2010 Evans, A., & Darzanos, K. (2010). A multi-faceted approach to enhance the first year experience and professional skills of computer and information science students. In T. Thomas, & J. Jason (Eds.), 13th Pacific Rim First Year Higher Education Conference 2010. Brisbane, Australia: QUT Publications.
2003 Quirchmayr, G., Slay, J., Koronios, A. P., & Darzanos, K. (2003). A business process engineering based approach towards incorporating security in the design of global information systems. In Proceedings of the Seventh Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. Australia.
2003 Darzanos, K., Wahlstrom, K. A., Slay, J., Mills, J. E., & Ayre, M. (2003). Increasing the participation of female students in IT education: a University of South Australia case study. In S. Spencer (Ed.), AusWIT2003 Participation, Progress and Potential: Proceedings of the 2003 Australian Women in IT Conference. Australia: University of Tasmania.
2002 Calabretto, J. P., Warren, J. R., Darzanos, K., & Fry, B. (2002). Building common ground for communication between patients and community pharmacists with an internet medicine cabinet. In Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii international conference on system sciences Vol. 2002-January (pp. 2087-2094). Los Alamitos, California, United States: IEEE.
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2001 Calabretto, J. P., Warren, J. R., Darzanos, K., & Fry, B. (2001). Enhancing communication between patients and community pharmacists with an Internet Medicine Cabinet. In P. James, J. Smith, & L. Smith (Eds.), Realising Quality Health Care. Brunswick East: Health Informatics Society of Australia.

Courses I teach

  • INFT 1031 System Requirements Studio (2025)
  • INFS 5057 Project Management for IT Professionals (2024)
  • INFT 1031 System Requirements Studio (2024)

Programs I'm associated with

  • LBCP - Bachelor of Information Technology
  • LMIG - Master of Information Technology

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