Job Title:Senior Lecturer
Institution: Loughborough University
Year: 2015
National Teaching Fellow 2015
Dr Lara Alcock has taught mathematics and mathematics education in both the UK and the US; she has extensive experience of working with individual students in both countries and in particular in Loughborough University's Mathematics Learning Support Centres.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer
Institution: Keele University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
After a successful career as a physiotherapist, Dr Jackie Waterfield moved into higher education. Her principal interest is in the pedagogies related to professional development and the praxis of real-world learning and the classroom. To address this theory-practice gap, Jackie has utilised a range of innovative learning and teaching methods for healthcare practice students, such as simulated patients, videoed assessments, practice-based portfolios and non-discipline-specific mentors, creating a learning environment that reflects the learners real professional life by being realistic and relevant, while meeting learning outcomes.
Job Title:Lecturer in German Studies
Institution: University of Birmingham
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr Ruth Whittle's approach to learning and teaching is largely shaped by her international experience as a student of English and American language and literature, French language and literature and pedagogy at the University of Bonn, Germany. At a time where it was rare to study abroad, she managed to spend not one but three years away, first at Stanford University, where she held a scholarship and also worked as a teaching assistant in German.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer in Independent Learning
Institution:
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Kim Whittlestone trained as a veterinary surgeon and spent two years working in a small animal practice before focusing his attention on education. Realising on graduation how unprepared he was for working in practice, he began a lifelong exploration of how to better prepare students for the workplace. Initially this focused on the development of students abilities to study but it gradually became apparent to him that teachers needed just as much help as students!
Job Title:Principal University Teacher
Institution: Loughborough University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr Peter Willmot is a practical mechanical engineer, an energetic, innovative, dedicated teacher and distinguished pedagogic researcher. He has extensive international experience, an eye for detail and significant experience of course design and leadership. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the HEA and recently completed a period of sabbatical leave having been awarded a prestigious HEA International Scholarship visiting universities on three continents to further his research into student motivation.
Job Title:Principal Lecturer in Education
Institution: Canterbury Christ Church University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr Viv Wilson started her career as a teacher of English and Drama, and advisory teacher in Creative Arts, and became a teacher educator in 1984. She joined Canterbury Christ Church University in 1997 to develop partnerships between the University and primary schools, particularly focused on the work of school-based mentors.
Job Title:Lecturer in Social Work
Institution: Queen's University Belfast
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr Joe Duffy is committed to achieving the genuine, meaningful and non-tokenistic involvement of service users and carers in social work education. His teaching is mainly in the area of Law for Social Workers and he coordinates the Service User and Carer Group which contributes to teaching across all aspects of the social work curriculum in Queens University Belfasts School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work.
Job Title:Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching
Institution: University of the Arts London
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr Alison James has worked in creative arts education in a variety of roles, across all levels and many subjects 'as educational and staff developer, researcher and policy maker and teacher'. Her trademark is creative and interactive approaches to pedagogy with a high level of staff and student involvement and plenty of humour to go with it. She believes that 'edutainment' does not have to be a dirty word, and that 'learning is about engaging imagination' the title of her book with Professor Stephen Brookfield
Job Title:Principal Teaching Fellow and Assistant Dean (Creativity)
Institution: University of Warwick
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
As a passionate advocate for creative and innovative pedagogical practices, Ashley Roberts leads the humanising agenda of 21st century business management education. In doing so, he draws on Arts-based methodologies (such as dance, drama and music) in order to unlock the potential of students by reframing learning through alternative lenses. Ashley consistently receives the highest teaching scores at Warwick Business School (WBS) and is a winner of The Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence (WATE, 2013).
Job Title:Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Early in his academic career, Professor Robert Eaglestone found himself divided between one part of his academic life, writing on philosophy and theory, and another, teaching first-year English students. He resolved this diremption by reading works of higher education pedagogy. He came across a marvellous book, which not only drew on the theory and philosophy he was researching but which also gave voice to his deepest intuitions about the power of teaching and the nature of the world. That book was Paulo Freire's The Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Job Title:Educational Developer
Institution: University of Liverpool
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr Peter Kahn is Director of Studies for the University of Liverpool's fully online professional doctorate (EdD) in higher education. Since it was launched three years ago, the programme has attracted senior educators from more than 42 countries across the world. The programme focuses on learning and leadership in higher education.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer in Biology
Institution: The Open University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr David Robinson is a zoologist and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems and has been committed to open and distance learning all his professional life. Having been inspired by the pioneers of natural history broadcasting when he was young, he now uses multiple media to excite learners about the natural world. Sounds and images can be very powerful in stimulating learning and he has been developing innovative ways of using media throughout his career.
