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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:Thesis Supervisor
Institution: Laureate Online Education
Year: 2011
National Teaching Fellow 2011
Institution at the time of award: University of Glamorgan. Dr Heather Skinner now lives on the Greek island of Corfu, having moved in 2013 from her home in the UK. Until the end of July 2013 she was Reader in Marketing at the University of South Wales (formerly the University of Glamorgan). Heather now continues her academic pursuits as a visiting lecturer at Nehemiah Gateway University in Albania, and as a Doctoral Thesis Supervisor for Laureate Online Education.
Job Title:Associate Professor of International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
Institution: London Metropolitan University
Year: 2011
National Teaching Fellow 2011
Steven is passionate about the educational benefits of what he calls "learning in public, establishing connections - both physical and virtual - between students and practitioners through placements, guest lectures, educational visits and Web 2.0 tools".
Job Title:Associate Professor of Animal Sciences and Senior Tutor
Institution: University of Nottingham
Year: 2011
National Teaching Fellow 2011
Dr Martin Luck has contributed to teaching and learning developments across the University of Nottingham and twice received its Lord Dearing Award for excellence. Importantly he was nominated for the second award, in 2010, by his students.
Job Title:Principal Lecturer
Institution: Leeds Metropolitan University
Year: 2011
National Teaching Fellow 2011
Susan Smith provided academic leadership for enterprise education for the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Leeds Metropolitan University's Institute of Enterprise for two years until September 2010. She continues to develop this work and wider curriculum development activity in the University's Centre for Learning and Teaching.
Job Title:Principal Lecturer in Education in the Faculty of Health and Life Science
Institution: De Montfort University
Year: 2011
National Teaching Fellow 2011
"Will is one of the most exceptional colleagues that I have ever met. He is a tireless champion of the student experience, always prompting and challenging colleagues to think about the implications of teaching and learning from a student perspective." (Head of Department and NTF, 2006)
Job Title:Senior Lecturer
Institution: University of Gloucestershire
Year: 2011
National Teaching Fellow 2011
Alongside his role as a Senior Lecturer in human resources management (HRM), Jason MacVaugh is course leader for the University of Gloucestershire's HRM undergraduates, and the Faculty teaching, learning and assessment coordinator.
Job Title:Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences
Institution: University of Winchester
Year: 2011
National Teaching Fellow 2011
Language and skill development are at the centre of Professor Kristyan Spelman Miller's academic and professional life. Her career in higher education began in 1988 as a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading, and over the years her interests in learning and teaching have led her on to significant roles at discipline, Faculty, and university levels.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education
Institution: University of Leicester
Year: 2011
National Teaching Fellow 2011
A poet, Dr Sue Dymoke has taught in the School of Education since 2003 where she leads the PGCE (Masters) English and Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL) programmes and supervises doctoral students. She previously spent 16 years as an English teacher in Nottinghamshire schools and then worked for the Open University, the University of Nottingham and the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE).
Job Title:Professor of Legal Education, Northumbria Law School
Institution: Northumbria University
Year: 2011
National Teaching Fellow 2011
Paul is an innovative teacher who has designed technology-enhanced learning environments for undergraduate, postgraduate and professional education. Students work in simulations, for instance, often collaboratively in 'firms', and on legal transactions, through which they learn how lawyers act for clients and come to understand, critically, how law operates in society, how it affects process and experience, and how it can be transformed.
Job Title:Professor of Sport and Exercise Science
Institution:
Year: 2011
National Teaching Fellow 2011
Professor Richard Tong began his career as a lecturer in sports physiology at Brunel University in 1989 and moved to UWIC in 1992. During his early teaching career Richard was involved in delivering physiology to undergraduate and postgraduate students and was the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) Accredited Laboratory Director at UWIC.
Job Title:Director of the Institute for Teaching, Innovation and Learning
Institution: University of West London
Year: 2011
National Teaching Fellow 2011
Joelle Fanghanel has a background in Linguistics and Comparative Literature, and started her professional career in the 80s as a teacher of French in various London schools, and colleges of higher education. She also worked as a freelance specialist translator in the late 80s to early 90s.
Job Title:Professor of Nursing and Practice Development
Institution: Teesside University
Year: 2011
National Teaching Fellow 2011
"Professor Robert McSherry has been a great asset to students of my cohort and an inspirational mentor to myself" (Masters Student). Over the past 23 years Professor Robert McSherry has successfully combined a clinical and academic career as a registered general nurse (Adult Nursing) and Nurse Teacher (NT) and continues to facilitate frontline health and social care professionals in the pursuit of excellence in practice.