Tanya Cleland

I started as an educator and practice manager at AUT in 2009, providing support to lecturers in the areas of sterilising, infection control, practice management, with a special interest in patient information and records. At that time I completed papers in tertiary teaching.

I started assisting academic staff in orthodontics and oral health promotion before gaining a role as lecturer. When the course leader resigned, I took over the course leadership of ORAH601 Oral Health promotion and continued to support other course leaders in delivery of specialist topics like orthodontics and infection control, and in the clinics as needed. I continue to lead ORAH601 and in 2021, also took on course leadership for ORAH501 during Semester 2.

I also enjoy process and policy development and have been heavily involved in writing guidance notes to underpin our clinical programme or support existing AUT policy. This has been particularly challenging as we navigate running a clinical programme in a global pandemic, with restrictions at times imposing severe limitations on clinical teaching.

As 'light relief' I also enjoy actively contributing to oral health promotion by delivering several programmes per year, the most recent being a deaf early childhood education centre.