John B. Biggs

Education

After studying psychology at the University of Tasmania (BA, 1957), he moved to the UK for doctoral studies at the University of London where he was awarded a PhD in 1962.

Career and research

Biggs has held university faculty positions in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. His final institutional affiliation is as Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong. His most influential work is his concept of constructive alignment, which is an outcomes-based framework for university teaching as described in Teaching for Quality Learning at University published in its fourth edition with Catherine Tang as co-author in 2011. Changing Universities is an academic memoir covering nearly 60 years of involvement with universities in several countries, and in that time universities themselves have changed drastically.