Job Title:Professor of Shakespeare Studies
Institution: De Montfort University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Professor Gabriel Egan is Director of the Centre for Textual Studies in the School of Humanities at De Montfort University. He is entirely paperless in all his teaching and research activities and pioneers electronic techniques in the study of English Literature. He has built and made freely available for all teaching and research purposes computer models of the theatre for which Shakespeare wrote (the 1599 Globe) and the printing machine from which his works were first published - a wooden hand press.
Job Title:Reader in Biochemistry and Master of Rutherford College
Institution: University of Kent
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr Peter Klappa was in secondary school when he decided he wanted to become a teacher. He found the prospect of being able to make complex topics accessible to other learners, while continuously learning himself, very appealing. During his studies to become a secondary school teacher, and in particular during postgraduate training, he became fascinated by the concept of student-centred learning, and aims to overcome barriers to learning in his current teaching by making topics accessible to all students.
Job Title:Head of Education for Sustainable Development
Institution: Plymouth University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Professor Stephen Sterling is widely renowned nationally and internationally for his work over many years on what educations response should be to the global issues of sustainability which are increasingly characterising our times. He is passionate about innovation and change in education, teaching, and learning which will give graduates the competencies to cope and manage in a rapidly changing and uncertain world, and has worked at every level from policy to practice accordingly.
Job Title:Professor in Higher Education
Institution: University of Southampton
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
University at the time of award: University of Exeter. Throughout her career, Professor Carol Evans has championed the development of inclusive participatory pedagogies within school, higher education and medical contexts. Carol is described as "an outstanding and hugely committed researcher and practitioner, extremely highly regarded by students and colleagues alike...[she is] successfully influencing the development of the next generation of teachers through the application of research". (Accrediting Staff Professionalism in Research-Led Education (ASPIRE) Exeter, 2012)
Job Title:Head of Research
Institution: Edge Hill University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Institution at time of Award - University of Chichester. Professor Vini Lander's passion for learning and teaching about equalities arose from her childhood, experience as a teacher, and now as a teacher educator. The persistence of educational inequality from early years to higher education has spurred Vini on to educate teachers to think beyond the status quo that may perpetuate these inequalities. Her long-held belief that teachers can make a difference has led to her inspirational teaching.
Job Title:Professor of Dementia Studies
Institution: Leeds Beckett University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Institution at the time of award: University of Bradford. Dr Claire Surr is Professor of Dementia Studies at Leeds Beckett University. She developed her academic career at the University of Bradford, joining the University in 1998 as a research assistant and progressing to her current role as Reader and Head of Education Programmes within her department. During that time she has taken on a variety of roles including programme leader for the departments Foundation degree, BSc and postgraduate programmes.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer in Sexual Health
Institution: University of Greenwich
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr David Evans sustained contribution to sexual health education for over 24 years has resulted in national and international recognition and student success. David maintains his teaching is a 'performance' of life; not a job or chore, but a passion and love-affair with learning he gladly shares with others. Originally commissioned by the Royal College of Nursing, he developed the widely acclaimed Sexual Health Skills course, which is now the compulsory core course of the University of Greenwich 'top up' BSc(Hons) Sexual Health.
Job Title:Director: Leicester Learning Institute
Institution:
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Failing her 11-plus stimulated a commitment to learning in Professor Sue Law which has lasted a lifetime: although she later passed her 13-plus, she refused to go to Grammar school because she had made friends. Nevertheless, determined to succeed, she cheekily asked her headteacher to start a sixth form. He agreed but only if she recruited three more pupils, which she did and she then became the first pupil to go to University (and the first in her family).
Job Title:Reader in Biological & Forensic Anthropology
Institution: Teesside University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr Tim Thompson has published over 35 papers in peer-reviewed journals and books and is a renowned expert on heat-induced apatite and crystallinity changes in bone. Most of his research on this focuses on the development of new analytical tools to examine this challenging biomaterial.
Job Title:Professor of Education and Language Assessment
Institution: University of Leicester
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Professor Glenn Fulcher has developed a unique pathway through the Universitys MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL that leads to an endorsement with language testing . This has proved highly popular with students, as it provides a route into employment with examination boards worldwide, and delivers a range of analytic and statistical skills keenly sought after by employers of social scientists.
Job Title:Professor of Applied Mathematics
Institution: University of Leicester
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Professor Jeremy Levesley has been a member of the Mathematics Department at the University of Leicester for over 20 years, and was the head of department from 2003-13. He is active nationally through the Committee of the Heads of Departments of Mathematical Sciences (HoDoMS), where he was chair from 2009-11. In these positions he has championed the central role of learning and teaching in the higher education (HE) sector.
Job Title:Head of E-Learning
Institution: Leeds Metropolitan University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Simon Thomson is currently the Head of e-Learning, an academic post with responsibility for the development and implementation of the University strategy to embed e-learning in all modes of delivery.
