Administrative and information law, FOI and governance design, with twelve years in public-sector leadership. Read online or download the PDF.
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Governance and legal-design practitioner with 12 years’ leadership in Victorian public education and a current Juris Doctor at ANU (2026–2028). Founder of GlassCase™ and Law & Learning, producing open-access tools and parliamentary submissions on FOI, administrative process, record integrity and public-sector accountability. Background combines statutory compliance, governance systems and evidence design at scale — building toward work where institutional design, transparency obligations and individual rights converge.
Administrative process · FOI and information access · Public-sector governance · Statutory compliance · Evidence systems · Legal design · Education improvement · Civic-tech publishing
Interactive, plain-language pathway for a Commonwealth FOI request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth).
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20302675Maps the gap between compliance and accountability in Australian administrative decision-making.
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18814499Browser-based governance diagnostic; composite index grounded in OECD/JRC indicator methodology.
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18522839Maps mandatory and discretionary considerations to identify jurisdictional error, derived from Peko-Wallsend and related authorities.
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18870170Statute-aligned analysis of exemption claims and redaction logic; mapped to OAIC FOI Guidelines (Part 6).
DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18062442Full publication record on ORCID 0009-0000-0945-0380.
Identified design gaps in continuation-phase governance; proposed reforms to reasoning, transparency and oversight.
View on aph.gov.auIdentified design risks in identity-verification and access-friction provisions.
View on aph.gov.auEssays on administrative process, FOI, reasons for decisions, review pathways and public-sector accountability.
ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy. In progress.
First Class Honours; Dean’s Honours List; ACEL Excellence in Instructional Leadership Award (top of cohort).
First Class Honours.
First Class Honours.
English and History (major); Political Science (minor).
Full cohort data and within-cohort growth charts on jayspudvilas.com/education.
Applied research and open, statute-aligned diagnostic tools for administrative law and public-sector accountability, spanning GlassCase™ and Law & Learning — all outputs open-access, DOI-linked and published with ORCID integration.
Melton West Primary School
Served as elected Health & Safety Representative, leading OHS compliance under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic) and the Disability Standards for Education 2005 (Cth).
Keelonith Primary School — a Supported Inclusion School
Deployed evidence-based instructional practices within a Supported Inclusion School environment, driving student progress and specialised curriculum adjustments.
Springside Primary School
Focused on literacy data frameworks, evidence-based reading interventions, and cohort progress tracking.
Melton West Primary School — incl. Acting Assistant Principal, Term 4 2021
Drove systemic literacy improvement — cut Grade 5 Reading NAPLAN bottom-two bands from 44% to 20% and lifted Writing high-growth from 15% to 30% (2017–2019) — and led school-wide digital technologies infrastructure, scaling a 1:1 device program from ~90 to 580+ students with full procurement and audit documentation.
Melton West Primary School
Melton West Primary School
Tarneit P–9 College
ACEL Excellence in Instructional Leadership Award (2020) · Dean’s Honours List, University of Melbourne (2019) · Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership Scholarship (2018).
Institute of Public Administration Australia (ACT, Associate Member) · ANU Law Students’ Society · International Association of Privacy Professionals (Student Member).
Registered Teacher, Victorian Institute of Teaching (2013–present) · HSR Initial OHS Training, WorkSafe Victoria approved · Science of Language and Reading, Intermediate, La Trobe University SOLAR Lab.