Dr Cathy Stone, Managing Editor

Dr Cathy Stone - Conjoint Associate Professor, University of Newcastle Australia - is the Managing Editor of the Student Success Journal.

Cathy is a consultant and researcher in higher education student success, and an AASW (Australian Association of Social Workers) accredited social worker. For more than 30 years Cathy has been closely involved in the development and provision of strategies to enhance student equity, widen participation and improve the experience and outcomes for increasingly diverse student cohorts, both in the online and on-campus environments. She has published extensively in the areas of mature-age, first-in-family, regional/remote, and online students.

As an inaugural Equity Fellow with the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (now ACSES), Cathy developed Guidelines for Improving Student Outcomes in Online Learning which have been of particular relevance since the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond, continuing to inform the HE sector as online learning delivery becomes increasingly mainstream.

Cathy is a STARS Fellow, a former President, Lifetime Member, and Fellow of the Australian & New Zealand Student Services Association (ANZSSA), and a former editor of its journal, JANZSSA.