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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:Professor of Career Guidance
Institution: University of East London
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Professor Rachel Mulvey is a chartered psychologist and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, fellow and past president of the Institute of Career Guidance, and is a board member of the International Association of Educational and Vocational Guidance (IAEVG).
Job Title:Head of Informatics
Institution: University of Huddersfield
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Dr Rupert Ward is an innovative and reflective practitioner who has contributed to a broad range of technology and process-based improvements which have had a significant impact on student learning, both in the UK and internationally.
Job Title:Head of Department of Computing
Institution: Edge Hill University
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Dr Chris Beaumont's approach to learning and teaching has been strongly influenced by his varied career background which includes working as a software engineer for GEC computers, an IT trainer and subsequently market development manager at Digital Equipment Co Ltd, and teaching in secondary schools, a further education college, and universities.
Job Title:Head of Department, Psychology
Institution: University of Portsmouth
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Before beginning her degree in Psychology in 1991, Dr Sherria Hoskins qualified as a basic adult education tutor and taught adults with severe learning disabilities and those leaving school without basic reading, writing and mathematics skills. This started her passion for understanding how a student could be in a learning context without learning occurring. Her interest in developing learning communities began from there.
Job Title:Founding Director of the Journalism Leaders Programme
Institution: University of Central Lancashire
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Francois Nel is a researcher, author and educator who works with innovating news organisations and digital media startups worldwide. He is the founding director of the pioneering Journalism Leaders Programme at the University of Central Lancashire, home to the UK's oldest journalism school, and initiator of the Media And Digital Enterprise (MADE) project, which is the only UK winner of the International Press Institutes inaugural News Innovation Contest sponsored by Google.  
Job Title:Research Fellow
Institution: Manchester Metropolitan University
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Dr Nicola Whitton is an educational researcher with 14 years' experience in higher education: in teaching, technical, managerial, educational development, and research roles. She is dedicated to promoting active, collaborative and playful learning, and engaging with colleagues and learners to enhance practice.
Job Title:Lecturer in Theatre and Performance
Institution: Plymouth University
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Adam Benjamin developed his pedagogic skills in the world of professional and community dance and co-founded CandoCo Dance Company, the first professional company of disabled and non-disabled dancers.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer
Institution: University of Leeds
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Dr Andrea Jackson is an HEA Senior Fellow and a University of Leeds Teaching Fellowship holder with a sustained track record in innovation and excellence in student education. Andrea is committed to ensuring that teaching practice draws upon and translates research, scholarship and professional practice into learning opportunities. She has extensive experience of designing and delivering practical-based teaching provision, has co-edited an atmospheric science textbook, and, as an advocate of evidence-informed approaches to enhance learning and teaching practice, has obtained funding to develop pedagogic research projects.
Job Title:Reader in Performance, Head of the Performance Research Centre
Institution: University of Salford
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Training for the workplace, practice as research driven teaching, and technical innovation are the three key areas of interest that have driven Mary Oliver's approach to teaching and learning over the 25 years that she has been working in higher education.
Job Title:Principal Lecturer for the Student Experience
Institution:
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Lyn Bibbings has 25 years' experience as a teacher of tourism and is a highly influential leader in changing practice. Professor David Airey, former Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Surrey comments: "Lyn's contributions have been, above all, for her work at a national level in working with organisations, including the HEA Subject Centre, and as chair of the subject association for tourism in higher education (ATHE), to push the development of high quality teaching and the development of her subject."
Job Title:Head of Learning Enhancement
Institution: Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Originally trained as a singer developing an interest in Baroque and Contemporary music with Susan Legg, Louise Jackson studied musicology before embarking upon a career in learning and teaching within the Arts, initially as a Senior Lecturer in Music and Musical Theatre at the University of Chichester.
Job Title:Associate Head of Department (Student Experience)
Institution: Coventry University
Year: 2013
National Teaching Fellow 2013
Marina lived through a very traditional higher education learning experience at the University of Bologna and was mesmerised by the teaching and learning practices she encountered at the then Coventry Polytechnic when appointed as British Council Language Assistant in 1984. She thus began her transformational journey as reflective practitioner.