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National Teaching Fellows

The National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) Scheme celebrates and recognises individuals who have made an outstanding impact on student outcomes and the teaching profession in higher education. Meet the National Teaching Fellows below.
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National Teaching Fellows

Job Title:Reader Educational Development and Course Director
Institution: London South Bank University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Anne Harriss has extensive teaching/course management experience and drives the development of occupational health (OH) education and practice locally, nationally and internationally. Her influence is recognised by her professional peers, University, students and graduates.
Job Title:Assistant Academic Registrar (Education and Academic Quality Services)
Institution: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr Clare Milsom is renowned for her enthusiasm and commitment. As a teacher she is an excellent role model, being reflective, adventurous and never satisfied with second-best in her own practice. On the two programmes (PG Certificate and 3i's Information, Ideas and Insights) that she leads, her students are overwhelmingly positive with comments including, "You are an inspirational teacher, whose practices I will try to model".
Job Title:Programme Lead for Undergraduate
Institution:
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
'I love beginnings' is a wonderful quotation from a lecture given by the architect Louise Kahn at the 1972 International Design Conference, Aspen, Colorado. For Jane Anderson, beginnings are synonymous with learning. Each moment of realisation is a beginning. Unusually she started her teaching career with an extended period of observation in the architectural design studio. Her teaching practice is still informed by her study of the dynamic between student and tutor.
Job Title:Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Institution: Aston University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Professor Helen Higson completed her first degree in English Literature from Newnham College, Cambridge University and followed this up with an MA with The Open University and a PhD in 19th century literature and visual art at Birkbeck College, London University. She has worked in higher education since 1983, first at Southampton University and then at Aston University where she is currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor.
Job Title:Professor of Creative Technologies
Institution:
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Having worked as a senior manager in the further education sector, Professor Paul Moore joined the University of Ulster in 1999 and has since been active in the development of the creative arts/industries work in the University. He was awarded a personal chair in 2009 becoming Professor of Creative Technology, is Director of the Research Centre for Creative Technologies (RCCT), and chairs the Universitys Information Technologies Strategy Steering Group (ITSSG).
Job Title:Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy
Institution: The University of Manchester
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr Jill Barber attended a South London comprehensive school and then studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, specialising in Organic Chemistry. She completed her PhD at the same University, and then undertook post-doctoral research in Karlsruhe and Heidelberg where she learned a certain amount of Biochemistry and German, and sang a lot of early church music. She worked and sang in Oxford for just over two years, before securing a permanent position at the Manchester Pharmacy School.
Job Title:Deputy Head, Centre for Excellence in Learning
Institution: Bournemouth University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr Debbie Holley combines her passion for both education and technology in her work as Associate Professor/Deputy Head of Centre for Excellence in Learning at Bournemouth University.
Job Title:Nurse Lecturer
Institution: Bangor University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Peggy Murphy is a Nurse Lecturer in the School of Healthcare Sciences at Bangor University. She is an experienced nurse who has worked across the UK and Australia and was promoted to nursing sister in acute medicine.
Job Title:Professor of French
Institution: Swansea University
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
After graduating from the University of Liverpool with a BA in French, Professor Derek Connon began research for a PhD on the theatrical works of Diderot. This topic appealed not only because of his interests in the field of French literature, but because of the fact that Derek had always acted, and it was during this period that he began directing student productions in French. He completed his PhD in 1984, but in 1982 had already started a three-year lectureship at Queens University Belfast.
Job Title:Principal Lecturer in Dance in the Community
Institution: University of Roehampton
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr Sara Houston is a tireless champion of professional development and work-related learning. She is also a leading figure in the community dance movement and has had oversight of national initiatives to safeguard quality and standards, and professional development in teaching and leading in the participatory and community dance sector.
Job Title:Reader in Work and Learning
Institution: University of Huddersfield
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr Kevin Orr has been committed to vocational education in higher education since working as an English assistant for work-related courses in France in the 1980s. After 16 years' working in further education colleges around Manchester, mainly as a teacher of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) and as a teacher-educator, he became a senior lecturer in post-compulsory education and training at the University of Huddersfield in 2006.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer in History and Gender Studies
Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
Year: 2014
National Teaching Fellow 2014
Dr Matt Cook has taught in the Faculty of Lifelong Learning and then in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London, since 2005, and has been Birkbeck Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre since 2008.