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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:Senior Lecturer (Dept. of Linguistics and English Language)
Institution: Lancaster University
Year: 2007
National Teaching fellow 2007
Jane Sunderland is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. A teacher for more than 30 years, she combines her own research experience in the field of linguistics, language education and doctoral education to guide and inspire others conducting doctoral research in the social sciences: in particular, in the area of language and gender, her specialist field of research and teaching.
Job Title:Emeritus Professor at the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Institution: University of Leeds
Year: 2007
National Teaching Fellow 2007
Job Title:Head of Primary, Early Childhood and Education Studies
Institution: University of the West of England
Year: 2007
National Teaching Fellow 2007
Dr Penelope Harnett is Head of the Department of Primary, Early Childhood and Education Studies  at the University of the West of England, Bristol and Reader in Education. "My commitment to excellence in teaching is underpinned within a broad values base and commitment to social justice and democracy," she comments. "Teachers who are confident in their own beliefs and values and understand their own learning have the capacity to make a difference to children's lives.
Job Title:Professor of Physics, Director of the Centre for Open Learning of Maths, Science, Computing and Technology
Institution: The Open University
Year: 2007
National Teaching Fellow 2007
I have several roles: development of Open University courses; leadership of COLMSCT and its programme of pedagogic development and research, personal pedagogic research and neuroimaging research into both autism and the learning of mathematics. Early teaching achievements include the development of multimedia-rich undergraduate science courses and the first OU postgraduate science course.
Job Title:Professor of Dental Education
Institution:
Year: 2006
National Teaching Fellow 2006
Job Title:Professor of Educational Physics
Institution: The Open University
Year: 2006
National Teaching Fellow 2006
Job Title:Director of the Environmental Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Network
Institution: University of Oxford
Year: 2006
National Teaching Fellow 2006
Institution at the time of Award: University of Gloucestershire. Since September 2009, Professor Carolyn Roberts has been Director of the Environmental Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Network at the University of Oxford, based in the Earth Sciences Department. The KTN brokers innovative environmental technology projects between universities and businesses. Before that she Directed the Centre for Active Learning in Geography, Environment and Related Disciplines at Gloucestershire University, a national Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), and was for eight years Head of a large School of Environment.
Job Title:Associate Dean; Professor of Engineering Education
Institution: Loughborough University
Year: 2006
National Teaching Fellow 2006
Job Title:Lecturer, School of Bioscience
Institution: University of Kent
Year: 2006
National Teaching Fellow 2006
Job Title:Director, Leeds Institute of Medical Education
Institution: University of Leeds
Year: 2006
National Teaching Fellow 2006
Job Title:Professor of Medical Education
Institution:
Year: 2006
National Teaching Fellow 2006Institution at the time of Award: University of Manchester. Tim Dornan is currently Professor of Medical Education at Maastricht University (Netherlands), and Honorary Professor at the University of Manchester. Tim Dornan studied medicine and history & philosophy of science at Cambridge and qualified as a doctor from Oxford in 1975. After postgraduate posts in Oxford and Nottingham, he obtained a clinical research doctorate from Oxford, spent a post-doctoral year in Seattle, USA, and then completed his clinical training in Nottingham.
Job Title:Co-Director in Writing and Performance/ Senior Drama Lecturer
Institution: University of York
Year: 2006
National Teaching Fellow 2006