Job Title:Head of School of Medicine, Professor of Medical Education
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Year: 2008
National Teaching Fellow 2008
Val Wass is a General Practitioner. She became determined to change medical education 20 years ago while working with patients in kidney failure at a large teaching hospital. She realised that the all important impact of disease on the lives of patients and families was being overlooked in a doctor (rather than patient) centred environment. She has since worked to introduce a more holistic approach to medical student learning developing an increased focus on primary care, patient centred communication, professionalism and cultural awareness.
Job Title:Independent Consultant, Visiting professor at Plymouth, South Wales and Liverpool John Moores Universities and Emerita professor at Leeds Beckett University
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Year: 2008
National Teaching Fellow 2008
Professor Sally Brown is now an Independent Consultant, Visiting professor at Plymouth, South Wales and Liverpool John Moores Universities and Emerita professor at Leeds Beckett University where she was at the time of award, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Assessment, learning and Teaching. Originally trained as a classroom teacher of English and therapeutic drama, she was previously Director of Membership Services for the Institute for Learning and Teaching (later the Higher Education Academy).
Job Title:Programme Leader, MA in Cultural and Arts Management
Institution: University of Winchester
Year: 2008
National Teaching Fellow 2008
At the University of Winchester, Dr Loykie Lomine is the programme director of an MA in Cultural and Arts Management. A sociologist by training, he has published on a range of subjects, from e-learning to postgraduate management education and from Tintin's journeys to new queer cinema in Australia. He is particularly interested in m-learning and welcomes opportunities to discuss and/or collaborate on this relatively new subject.
Job Title:Principal, Green Templeton College
Institution: University of Oxford
Year: 2008
National Teaching Fellow 2008
Institute at the time of award: Institute of Education, University of London. Professor Sir David Watson is an historian and has been Principal of Green Templeton College and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford since October 2010. Previous to this, he was Director of the MBA in Higher Education Management at the Institute of Education. This pioneering course began in 2002 and takes a yearly cohort of 25 of what David calls 'people at the beginning of the middle of their careers'. The MBA has gathered a national and international reputation in the field.
Job Title:Professor of Education
Institution: University of Roehampton
Year: 2008
National Teaching Fellow 2008
Institute at the time of award: Institute of Education, University of London. Dr Penny Jane Burke is Professor of Education at the University of Roehampton. She was previously Senior Lecturer of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London at the time of her NTFS award, where she was Chair of the Widening Participation (WP) Sub-Committee and Leader of the SRHE Widening Participation Network, and placed developing inclusive pedagogies at the centre of the Institutes WP strategy.
Job Title:Director of Resources, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Institution: University of Greenwich
Year: 2008
National Teaching Fellow 2008
Tony Mann has been teaching at the University of Greenwich since 1989 and is in the Department of Mathematical Sciences. With a background in computing and maths he takes a leading role in curriculum development and his teaching ranges from algebra, number theory and history of mathematics to interaction design and digital creativity. Tony always seeks to excite students with new approaches, whether it be using conjuring tricks to make points about multimedia design or role-play to help students appreciate issues about statistics in everyday life.
Job Title:Professor of Geomorphology (*now retired*)
Institution: Queen's University Belfast
Year: 2008
National Teaching Fellow 2008
Brian Whalley is Professor of Geomorphology in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology at The Queen's University of Belfast where he has taught and researched since 1975. He was Head of School for eight years and during this time was responsible for enabling teaching quality control procedures for progression through the university's subject review.
Job Title:Professor of Mathematics Education
Institution: Loughborough University
Year: 2008
National Teaching Fellow 2008
As founding Director of the Mathematics Education Centre at Loughborough University, Tony has had a long and varied teaching career which began in a sixth-form college before he transferred his skills to higher education. Tony is respected within the sector for his pioneering work in mathematics support, championing the cause of those students, studying in a wide range of disciplines, who find the mathematical demands of higher education particularly challenging.
Job Title:Director, Libraries and Knowledge Resources
Institution: Nottingham Trent University
Year: 2008
National Teaching Fellow 2008
Institute at the time of award: Nottingham Trent University. At the time of receiving her National Teaching Fellowship award, Sue McKnight was Professor of Knowledge and Learning Management and Director of Libraries and Knowledge Resources at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) where she was responsible for library services across NTU's three campuses and for leading the university's strategic developments in e-learning and knowledge management.
Job Title:Principal Lecturer / Education Subject Leader
Institution: University of Roehampton
Year: 2008
National Teaching Fellow 2008
Dr Carrie Winstanley works in the discipline of education; teaching, researching and consulting on different aspects of learning. She is Principal Lecturer and Education Subject Leader in the School of Education at Roehampton University, where her work focuses on psychology and learning, philosophy of education, and free-choice learning, particularly in museums, galleries and interactive science centres. Her work is well-known within the field of gifted and talented education, particularly where this concerns the needs of able children who also have learning problems, disabilities and those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Job Title:Senior Lecturer
Institution: University of Bath
Year: 2008
National Teaching Fellow 2008
Dr Jos Darling is a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering and Director of Studies to eight undergraduate degree programmes and 850 students at the University of Bath. During his career at Bath he has developed a portfolio of teaching and educational tools that are based primarily on community building, pragmatic diplomacy and play. Following his education, also at the University of Bath, Jos spent time in industry before his return. He is now successfully combining an active research career with teaching, and has used problems encountered through research to illustrate the excitement of engineering.
Job Title:Professor of Computer Science
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Year: 2008
National Teaching Fellow 2008
Peter McOwan, a Professor of Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London, has at the centre of his teaching philosophy the idea that learning should be serious fun both for the teacher and the taught. A major motive in becoming an academic was pleasure in teaching and the opportunities this provided to creatively use specialist research knowledge to support others learning.
