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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:Associate Senior Lecturer in Photography
Institution: Coventry University
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
For 15 years Jonathan was a self-employed professional photographer with studios in London and New York and a client list including Rolling Stone, Vogue, the New York Times, and the Guardian, Levis, Swiss Army Watches and Paul Smith. His work is exhibited internationally, including portraits within the National Portrait Gallerys permanent collection.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer in English Literature
Institution: University of Central Lancashire
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Dr Helen Day's academic identity has been influenced by a varied career that includes employability and English Literature, learning on the language-literature border, writing for children, pedagogic research and research-informed teaching, educational evaluation and staff development.
Job Title:Senior Learning and Teaching Fellow
Institution: Manchester Metropolitan University
Year: 2013
National Teaching fellow 2013
Mark believes that empowering students helps them to develop and achieve their highest potential. Drawing on his early experiences of conservation expeditions, he has enjoyed over 20 years of running residential field courses, letting the living classroom be the inspiration for the science that underpins biological systems.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer
Institution: De Montfort University
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Dr Momodou Sallah has more than 20 years' experience working with young people at local, national and international levels; from being the Youth Director of Gambia Red Cross Society to a Senior Youth Worker at the Leicester City Council, UK. Momodou mainly teaches on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at De Montfort University, leading on the Theory and Practice of Youth Work; Theory and Practice of Community Development; and Global Youth Work modules.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer in Nursing
Institution: University of Hull
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Dr Peter Draper is Senior Lecturer in nursing at the University of Hull, where he has taught for 25 years. A major focus of Peter's research and teaching is the nursing contribution to the wellbeing of older people. He has a special interest in the impact of nurses' speech on older people, and uses creative writing methods including poetry to sensitise health professionals to the power of words.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer in European Politics
Institution: University of Leeds
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Before working at the University of Leeds, Dr Simon Lightfoot worked at Liverpool John Moores University. He has been awarded University Teaching Fellowships at both universities and in 2008 was awarded the Sir Bernard Crick Award for Outstanding Teaching by the Political Studies Association (PSA).
Job Title:Senior Lecturer
Institution: Bangor University
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Alongside her role as lecturer and research supervisor across the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the School of Psychology, Dr Fay Short adopts numerous additional roles and responsibilities. At a departmental level, she is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Psychology. At an institutional level, she is the internationalisation champion for the College of Health and Behavioural Sciences and an honorary counsellor with the Student Counselling Service.
Job Title:Reader
Institution: Newcastle University
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Dr Jarmila Glassey (Jarka) has dedicated her academic career to improving chemical engineering education institutionally, nationally and internationally. Having gained her qualification with traditional, didactic delivery, she is a passionate believer in more interactive, hands-on approach to engineering education. She has led the successful modernisation of the chemical engineering degree at Newcastle University, introducing industrial case-study supported enquiry based learning.
Job Title:Director of Learning & Teaching/PhD Programme Director, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
Institution: University of Nottingham
Year: 2013
National Teaching fellow 2013
Professor Jo Lymn has been awarded two Lord Dearing Awards for excellence in teaching and learning by the University of Nottingham. She teaches pharmacology to non-medical prescribing students and is enthusiastic about engaging them in this subject.
Job Title:Professor of Chemistry
Institution: University of York
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Engagement, outreach and building communities of active learners and educators lie at the heart of Professor David Smith's educational practice. A wide range of innovative approaches have been used to engage student learning, not only at the University of York, where he has pioneered active-learning techniques in lectures, but also nationally and internationally. Over the past 10 years he has engaged with more than 30,000 A-level students, in highly interactive lectures.
Job Title:Course Leader and Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences
Institution: University of Gloucestershire
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Dr Anne Goodenough has a highly applied teaching style. She encourages students to engage with material through real-life projects in both field and laboratory in ways that also facilitate development of transferable skills. She has published over 50 papers in leading journals, which underpin her teaching in modules as diverse as avian biology, conservation ecology and biogeography.
Job Title:Senior Teaching Fellow
Institution:
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Dr Tess Maginess was born on a small farm in Northern Ireland. She was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (BA, Hons English), Queen's University, Belfast (MA, Anglo-Irish Literature) and York University, Toronto (PhD, English).