Job Title:Senior Learning and Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care
Institution: Manchester Metropolitan University
Year: 2012
National Teaching Fellow 2012
During Claire Hamshire's nine years at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), she has pioneered many innovative approaches to learning and teaching but is best known for her work on student retention and technology-enhanced learning.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer in Marketing
Institution: London South Bank University
Year: 2012
National Teaching Fellow 2012
Anita Peleg believes that student engagement is achieved through interactive and practical learning, and says that if students understand how to apply knowledge, they will be motivated to acquire, analyse and use knowledge repeatedly. This belief is evidenced by her use of practical projects in market research and public relations and her focus on embedding employability across the curriculum.
Job Title:Head of Clinical Communication in Medical Education
Institution: St George's, University of London
Year: 2012
National Teaching Fellow 2012Dr Jo Brown's enthusiasm for her subject is infectious. Her interest in clinical communication began when, as an 18 year-old student nurse, she noticed the impact that effective, patient-centred communication had on the physical and psychological wellbeing of patients and health care professionals alike, and she has been fascinated by the subject ever since.
Job Title:Associate Professor in Statistics
Institution: Plymouth University
Year: 2012
National Teaching Fellow 2012
Dr Paul Hewson started his career as a cell biologist in Scotland. He moved back to Devon in 1996, working in local government while retraining part-time as a statistician. Paul was awarded a PhD in 2005 and retains a particular interest in the role of Bayesian reasoning in understanding the world.
Job Title:Head of the Money Doctors Service, Student Affairs
Institution: University of Roehampton
Year: 2012
National Teaching Fellow 2012
In her relatively short time at Roehampton, Nicky Reid has had a major influence on many aspects of her specialist area and on the colleagues who work alongside her; from instigating change through her work on delivering and teaching personal finance education, to introducing exciting new technologies which have benefited both staff and students.
Job Title:Educational Developer and Director of the PGCertHE
Institution: Bangor University
Year: 2012
NTFS Ally, supporting applications from: Professional services colleagues
Charles work as TEAL at the University of Liverpool in Professional Services. He is the Editor of Developing Academic Practice and coordinates the MA in Academic Practice. He enjoys supporting colleagues interested in applying for CATE and NTF.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature
Institution:
Year: 2012
National Teaching Fellow 2012
Dr Peter Howarth lectures in modern English literature, particularly poetry. What keeps teaching exciting, for him, is the sense of watching the artwork offer new things to every class and every student. His aim has always been to help students feel how the book or poem, even the difficult or intimidating one, is a live work, continually happening, and not just an object to be intellectually anatomised.
Job Title:Higher Education Courses Director
Institution:
Year: 2012
National Teaching Fellow 2012
Over the last twelve years Tim Roberts has developed the UKs only progressive HE programme for Circus Arts. This consists of a Foundation Degree in Circus Arts, a top-up BA(Hons) Degree in Circus Arts and a Postgraduate Certificate in Circus Arts.
Job Title:Professor of Learning Innovation and Director of the Beyond Distance Research Alliance
Institution: University of Leicester
Year: 2012
National Teaching Fellow 2012
Prior to her role at the University of Leicester Gráinne Conole was Professor of e-Learning in the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University. Her research interests include the use, integration and evaluation technologies and e-learning and the impact of technologies on organisational change.
Job Title:Reader in Legal Education, Nottingham Law School
Institution: Nottingham Trent University
Year: 2012
National Teaching Fellow 2012
Rebecca Huxley-Binns is an experienced teacher of law at all levels. Having started teaching GCSE and A level law in 1992, she was Head of Law at Franklin College in Grimsby from 1996 to 2002, after which she joined Nottingham Trent University as a lecturer. She was appointed Reader in Legal Education in 2010 and Nottingham Law Schools Learning and Teaching Coordinator in 2011.
Job Title:Associate Head of Department of Biological, Biomedical and Analytical Science
Institution: University of the West of England
Year: 2012
National Teaching Fellow 2012
University at the time of award: De Montfort University. Dr Vivien Rolfe's background is in gastrointestinal physiology and she joined De Montfort in 2003 having worked previously at Nottingham University and before that at Pedigree Petfoods, part of Mars Incorporated, as an animal nutritionist. Her current role is Associate Head of Department of Biological, Biomedical and Analytical Science at the University of the West of England (2013).
Job Title:Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Social Sciences
Institution: Aston University
Year: 2012
National Teaching Fellow 2012
Fiona Copland is Course Director for a portfolio of MSc programmes by distance learning in the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) by distance learning. The programme's advocate situated learning and require course participants to develop action research projects in order to investigate their own contexts. This innovative and emancipatory approach puts course participants at the centre of their own learning, showing them it is the course tutors who are at a distance from the students, rather than the other way around.
