Dr Jenny Marie

Dr Jenny Marie is a Principal Teaching Fellow at University College London's (UCL) Arena Centre for Research-based Education. She has worked in academic development since 2005 and led UCL's flagship student/staff partnership programme, UCL ChangeMakers, since 2015. In her time leading the programme, she has developed it from a small pilot of student-initiated projects into a large, strategic programme at UCL. All projects now follow UCL's education or doctoral education strategies and the intention is to have a project in every department by 2019. Impact of work Jenny has developed support for departments with low student satisfaction, encouraging and faciliating them to work with students to enhance their practice. Departments are given the opportunity to work with a student to gather and analyse student perspectives to inform their annual development plan and to work on an enhancement project in partnership with students. She has also developed a scheme whereby students and staff work together to review teaching on a module and she has secured its place as an option for Peer Dialogue at the Institution. Jenny has worked on the HEFCE-funded REACT project, to enhance the inclusivity of student engagement schemes and is a member of the RAISE networks committee. Jenny has also advised the Engineering faculty on the development of their global-leading Integrated Engineering Programme, particularly through collecting and analysing data on the student experience of the programme. Plans for the future She is also interested in Assessment and Feedback issues. She has supported students to develop guides to assessment and feedback and is currently piloting a new version of 'Meet the Researcher', which is designed to enhance students' feedback literacy.