Job Title:Dean of Students and Director of Student Services
Institution: University of East Anglia
Year: 2009
National Teaching Fellow 2009
Before her retirement, Dr Annie Grant worked as the Dean of Students at the University of East Anglia. She worked in student services for 18 years, five of them at UEA, following an earlier career as an archaeologist. She has taken an evidence-based approach to her work in order to ensure that the HE learning environment explicitly recognises the wide diversity in students backgrounds, circumstances and aspirations. Through her role Annie provided opportunities to help all students to achieve their academic potential and personal goals.
Job Title:Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)
Institution: University of East London
Year: 2009
National Teaching Fellow 2009
Patrick McGhee was educated at the University of Glasgow and the University of Oxford. Over 20 years he has made significant contributions to the teaching of psychology and learning development for students nationally and internationally.
Job Title:University Teaching Fellow, School of Law
Institution: University of Hertfordshire
Year: 2009
National Teaching Fellow 2009
Penny Wiggins is a Learning and Teaching Fellow having being selected by the university as a Fellow of the 'Blended Learning Unit', the university's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Penny is also Associate Head of the School of Law.
Job Title:Associate Professor, Department of German Studies
Institution: University of Warwick
Year: 2009
National Teaching Fellow 2009
Sean Allan was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and at the Humboldt University in what was then East Berlin. After a spell teaching at the University of Reading where he played a key role in promoting the use of German language drama as a learning-tool, he joined the Department of German Studies at the University of Warwick in 2001.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry
Institution: University of Liverpool
Year: 2009
National Teaching Fellow 2009
Dr Nick Greeves is a Senior Lecturer, Year 1 Coordinator, Director of Learning and Teaching in the Department of Chemistry and e-Learning Sub-Dean for Science and Engineering at the University of Liverpool. A Cambridge graduate, he also obtained his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry there in 1986. Nick then held a Harkness Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at Stanford University, California, and a Research Fellowship at Cambridge before joining Liverpool in 1989.
Job Title:Head of Learning and Teaching Development & Deputy Director ASKe Centre for Excellence
Institution:
Year: 2009
National Teaching Fellow 2009
Following a career in commercial investment and management in New York, Berry O Donovan spent the last ten years at Oxford Brookes University. She is a Deputy Director of ASKe (Assessment Standards Knowledge exchange), Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and Head of Learning and Teaching Development in the Business School.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer, School of Systems Engineering
Institution: University of Reading
Year: 2009
National Teaching Fellow 2009
Throughout her career, Shirley Williams has taken a keen interest in new technologies and their use in teaching and learning; from her first involvement in teaching and learning as an undergraduate in the 1970s, helping her fellow students get to grips with one of the early interactive computers, to her current work on the EU-funded MUVEnation project, helping teachers understand how virtual worlds can be used to encourage pupil motivation.
Job Title:Director of the Combined Honours Centre
Institution: Newcastle University
Year: 2009
National Teaching Fellow 2009
Colin Bryson is Director of the Combined Studies Centre at Newcastle University. Before that his lecturing career was spent in Business Schools at Nottingham Trent, St Andrews and Stirling. He took up his current role in 2008 as it presented a new challenge and allowed him to continue working with students whilst engaging in quality enhancement with staff, particularly new staff.
Job Title:Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning)
Institution: Plymouth University
Year: 2009
National Teaching Fellow 2009
Karen Gresty is a Senior Lecturer in Biological Aspects of Health at the University of Plymouth. Her reputation and educational strengths are built on her exceptional ability to communicate biology to non-biologists. She is an enthusiastic advocate of public engagement with science and has made teaching biology to a non-specialist audience her area of expertise. Her dedication to this area over the past fifteen years is acknowledged by one senior colleague's comments: "Karen is an enthusiastic, industrious and inspiring teacher with a genuine and deep commitment to student learning and her subject area".
Job Title:Senior Lecturer, School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy
Institution: Keele University
Year: 2009
National Teaching Fellow 2009
Jonathan Parker is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Keele. He was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Oxford University. He has taught at Keele since 1996, where he has supported and helped renew the university's tradition for broad based, interdisciplinary undergraduate education.
Job Title:Deputy Head of School
Institution: University of Exeter
Year: 2009
National Teaching Fellow 2009
Alison Wride's teaching is largely in the area of economics. Her style reflects her belief that understanding of the technical aspects flows more easily when students develop an intuitive way of thinking about the subject, together with an appreciation of its relevance to all aspects of their lives. She uses this approach successfully with varied audiences, from first year undergraduates through to those on post-experience, executive education.
Job Title:Pro Vice-Chancellor Learning and Teaching
Institution:
Year: 2009
National Teaching Fellow 2009
Institute at the time of award: Durham University. Liz Burd is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Newcastle on the East coast of Australia. Previous to this, she was a senior lecture in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University. She has a first degree in Education and a PhD in Software Engineering and teaches a variety of topics within Software Engineering to final-year and masters level students.
