Job Title:Reader in Teacher Education
Institution: University of Birmingham
Year: 2015
National Teaching Fellow 2015
Dr Christine Szwed joined the University of Birmingham as a lecturer in primary education and has since held the positions of Director of Studies for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and Head of Primary Initial Teacher Education. Her research interests cover the area of special needs and management alongside the area of initial teacher training.
Job Title:Director of Technical Theatre
Institution:
Year: 2015
National Teaching Fellow 2015
Ben Sumner trained as a stage manager and has worked in corporate events, dance, drama, musical theatre, opera, circus and television. He first taught Stage Management at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 1987 before becoming Senior Lecturer in Technical Management at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. He remained there for 11 years developing new programmes in Stage Management and Stage Technology.
Job Title:Head of Youth and Community Work
Institution: Leeds Beckett University
Year: 2015
National Teaching Fellow 2015
Alan Smith has been involved in the professional education of youth and community workers for more than 21 years. He has been at the forefront of policy and practice developments for most of that time, helping guide the profession to its current graduate status, and working with others to champion youth and community work as a discipline which changes lives and creates fairer communities.
Job Title:Head of the Birmingham School of Architecture
Institution: Birmingham City University
Year: 2015
National Teaching Fellow 2015
A Chartered Architect since 1997, Professor Kevin Singh is a graduate of the Birmingham School of Architecture of which he is now the head. His teaching career began as a visiting tutor, progressing to Director of Studies in the School of Interior Design. In 2003 he re-joined the School of Architecture as Programme Director for the postgraduate course, a position which he held until April 2011 when he was appointed as Head of School.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Ethics
Institution: University of Birmingham
Year: 2015
National Teaching Fellow 2015
Dr June Jones is responsible for the ethics curriculum for all five years of the University of Birminghams medical degree, providing a stimulating and exciting interactive curriculum for all students.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer in Physics and Director of Learning and Teaching
Institution: University of Hull
Year: 2015
National Teaching Fellow 2015
Dr David Sands is a passionate advocate of evidence-informed approaches in physics education and pedagogies which foster deep learning in his students. As Chair of the Institute of Physics (IOP) Higher Education Group, Chair of the Physics Education Division of the European Physical Society and Chair of the IOP Degree Accreditation Committee he is committed to using his passion, research and experience to shape policy and practice in physics education nationally and internationally.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Institution: University of the West of England
Year: 2015
National Teaching Fellow 2015
Dr Jeanette Sakel joined the University of the West of England (UWE) in 2007 after working as a Research Associate at the University of Manchester and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. She gained her PhD in 2003 from the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
Job Title:Staff Development Manager (Academic)
Institution: University of Bristol
Year: 2015
National Teaching Fellow 2015
Dr Jane Pritchard has been working in the field of academic staff development since the start of the 21st century across the UK and internationally. During this time she has directed and delivered on learning and teaching programmes, as well as running educational research projects and supporting staff in embarking on their own projects.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer & Faculty of Medicine Academic Lead for Postgraduate Education
Institution: Imperial College London
Year: 2015
National Teaching Fellow 2015
Jane Saffell believes that students learn best in inclusive academic communities where teaching and learning are meshed with research and scholarship. Key elements of her approach are research-enculturation, engendering practitioner thinking and dispositions, and use of authentic assessment.
Job Title:Professor of Chemical Education
Institution: University of Reading
Year: 2015
National Teaching Fellow 2015
Professor Elizabeth Page has won recognition for her innovative teaching and learning activities both externally, through the Royal Society of Chemistry Education Award, and within her institution as a University Teaching Fellow and a winner of four University Team Teaching Awards.
Job Title:Teaching and Learning Manager
Institution: The University of Manchester
Year: 2015
National Teaching Fellow 2015
Marcia Ody is a passionate champion of student engagement and peer education and has, over the last 14 years, developed and led the Manchester 'Students as Partners' programme. Marcia has driven the rapid expansion of Peer Mentoring and the nationally and internationally acclaimed Peer Assisted Study Session (PASS) programme at Manchester and has been proactive in establishing effective, sustainable structures to support the 1650 Mentors/Leaders who are trained every year. She has been highly influential in making peer education a mainstream activity within the University and beyond.
Job Title:Principal Lecturer in Academic Continuing Professional Development
Institution: Manchester Metropolitan University
Year: 2015
Since winning the NTFS award in 2015, Chrissi has progressed to the position of Associate Professor in Education at the University of Leeds.
Chrissi Nerantzi used to be a translator of children's literature and taught Modern Foreign Languages for many years, before moving into academic development. She is a passionate and creative academic developer. Her approach is playful and experimental and underpinned by scholarship and research. A colleague from MMU said about her: "Chrissi is a force of life and one of the most amazing and creative people I have ever met."
