Dr Chad Habel

Senior Lecturer, Academic Development

Teaching and Learning Innovation

Academic

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Chad is an academic, educator and industry professional who is passionate about supporting other educators to provide exceptional learning experiences to learners and communities.

With a PhD in English literary studies, Chad moved into student and academic development work at Flinders and the University of Adelaide and then onto the University of South Australia. After a career break to act as primary carer, he acted on his lifelong interest in video games to work as Games Producer Trainer and then Head of Faculty (Graduate Programs) at the Academic of Interactive Entertainment. During that time he also co-founded his own company, Bad Plan Studios, to help develop their debut title End of Ember as Production Director. Don't look it up, it's disgusting.

Chad has now 'returned' to Adelaide University to continue working with colleagues to help students on heir lifelong journey path. He has a deeply collaborative approach and is always up for a coffee or lunch. Please reach out!

My research ranges from Higher Education, leadership, organisational development and educational technology to game development and production. As of August 2026, I am picking up research activity again after a hiatus of several years due to a career break, and I am keen to collaborate and form relationships to contribute to long-term outcomes.

Date	Position	Institution name
2026 - ongoing	Senior Lecturer, Academic Development	Adelaide University
2024 - ongoing	Production Director/Co-founder	Bad Plan Studios
2023 - 2026	Head of Faculty, Graduate Programs	Academy of Interactive Entertainment
2022 - 2026	Games Producer Trainer	Academy of Interactive Entertainment
2014 - 2019	Director/Owner	Game Truck Australia
2013 - 2016	Senior Lecturer, Higher Education	The University of Adelaide
2009 - 2013	Coordinator, Student Development Program	The University of Adelaide
2007 - 2009	Associate Lecturer/Academic Skills Advisor	Flinders University

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
2011 - 2011	The University of Adelaide	Australia	Grad Cert Ed (Higher Ed)
1999 - 2006	Flinders University	Australia	PhD
1995 - 1998	Flinders University	Australia	BA (Hons)

Date	Title	Institution name	Country
2024	Agile Games Producer	Organa	Australia
2023	Certificate IV, Training Assessment and Evaluation	ASC	Australia

Year	Citation
2016	Habel, C., & Whitman, K. (2016). Opening spaces of academic culture: doors of perception; heaven and hell. Higher Education Research and Development, 35(1), 71-83. DOI Scopus17 WoS11
2014	Habel, C., & Kooyman, B. (2014). Agency mechanics: gameplay design in survival horror video games. Digital Creativity, 25(1), 1-14. DOI Scopus28 WoS20
2014	Habel, C., & Stubbs, M. (2014). Mobile phone voting for participation and engagement in a large compulsory law course. Research in Learning Technology, 22(19537), 19537-1-19537-15. DOI Scopus18 WoS14
2014	Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Miller, J., & Habel, C. (2014). The influence of question type, text availability, answer confidence and language background on student comprehension of an expository text. Higher Education Research and Development, 33(4), 712-727. DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2013	Habel, C. (2013). Teaching with emotional intelligence: a step by step guide for higher and further education professionals, 2nd edition. Higher Education Research and Development, 32(3), 513-514. DOI WoS3
2012	Habel, C. (2012). 'I can do it, and how!' Student experience in access and equity pathways to higher education. Higher Education Research and Development, 31(6), 811-825. DOI Scopus29 WoS29
2012	Habel, C. (2012). Developing student criticality in higher education: undergraduate learning in the arts and social sciences, by Brenda Johnston, Rosamond Mitchell, Florence Miles and Peter Ford, London and New York, Continuum, 2011, 256 pp., £75/US$140 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8264-4117-1. Higher Education Research and Development, 31(5), 747-748. DOI WoS2
2011	Habel, C. (2011). VotApedia for student engagement in academic integrity education. Ergo, 2(1), 15-25.
2010	Habel, C. (2010). Literary Activists: Writer-intellectuals in Australian Public Life. TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE, 3(1), 2 pages.
2010	Habel, C. (2010). China Fictions/English language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story. TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE, 2(2), 2 pages. WoS1
2009	Habel, C. (2009). Academic self-efficacy in ALL: Capacity-building through self-belief. Journal of Academic Language and Learning, 3(2), 94-104. WoS13
2008	Habel, C. (2008). Irish roots, Australian rhizomes: ancestry and diasporic cultural identity in the works of Thomas Keneally and Christopher Koch. The Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, 7, 37-49.
2007	Habel, C. (2007). Shadow on Screen The Wayang Kulit in The Year of Living Dangerously. JASAL - Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 7, 46-57.
-	Habel, C. S. (2018). Doom Guy Comes of Age: Mediating Masculinities in Power Fantasy Video Games. M/C Journal, 21(2). DOI

Year	Citation
2012	Habel, C. (2012). Roots and rhizomes in Irish-Australian ancestral memory. In O. Frawley (Ed.), Memory Ireland, Volume 2: Diaspora and Memory Practices (Vol. 2, 1 ed., pp. 24-35). United States: Syracuse University Press. Scopus1
2012	Muller, A., & Habel, C. (2012). Gaming to learn: language in a clinical context. In C. Nygaard, N. Courtney, & E. Leigh (Eds.), Simulations, Game and Role Play in University Education (1 ed., pp. 123-138). United Kingdom: Libri Publishing.
2009	Habel, C. (2009). Christopher Koch : crossing sea walls. In S. Hosking, R. Hosking, R. Pannell, & N. Bierbaum (Eds.), Something Rich and Strange: Sea Changes, Beaches and the Littoral in The Antipodes (pp. 224-232). Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Press.

Year	Citation
2011	Habel, C., & Habel, C. (2011). Measurement of Student Self Efficacy in Marketing Courses (MARKESE). In Proceedings of The Quantitative Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Forum (pp. 37-49). Melbourne: The University of Melbourne.
2010	Habel, C., & Habel, C. (2010). Approaches to learning and student self-efficacy in Project-Based Marketing education. In Proceedings of HERDSA 2010 (pp. 1-12). online: HERDSA.
2010	Habel, C. (2010). VotApedia for Student Engagement in Academic Integrity Education. In The Education Research Group of Adelaid (pp. The Changing Face of Education, 24-25 September, 2010). Adelaide, Australia.

Year	Citation
2011	Habel, C., & Stubbs, M. (2011). Mobile engagement: phone voting in large lectures. Poster session presented at the meeting of Poster presentation at the University of Adelaide Festival of Learning and Teachi. Adelaide: University of Adelaide.

Year	Citation
2016	Habel, C., Whitman, K., & Stokes, J. (2016). Exploring the experiences of low SES students via enabling programs. Australia: National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education.

Year	Citation
2024	Habel, C. (2024). Gnarly content: 9 risks for horror game development. Game Developer.

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2014 - 2016	Co-Supervisor	Comics and Pedagogy: Authorship, Authority and Literacy	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Aaron Scott Humphrey
2013 - 2017	Co-Supervisor	Attrition and New Entry Pathways: Factors Contributing Toward Attrition for Students Entering an Australian University through New VET Entry Pathways	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Alex Lovat

Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
2026 - ongoing	Chair	Games Industry Advisory Group	South Australian Film Corporation	Australia

Date	Event Name	Event Type	Institution	Country
2026 - 2026	Indie Games Room, AVCon	Consumer show	Team AVCon Inc.	Australia

Date	Title	Type	Institution	Country
2024 - ongoing	Specialist Judge, Debut Category: Australian Game Developer Awards	Advice	Interactive Games & Entertainment Association	Australia

Position: Senior Lecturer, Academic Development
Email: chad.habel@adelaide.edu.au

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