Dr Peter Kahn

National Teaching Fellow 2014 Dr Peter Kahn is Director of Studies for the University of Liverpool's fully online professional doctorate (EdD) in higher education. Since it was launched three years ago, the programme has attracted senior educators from more than 42 countries across the world. The programme focuses on learning and leadership in higher education. He has helped to establish enquiry-based learning (EBL) as a wide-spread focus for innovative student learning, co-authoring the Higher Education Academy's curriculum guide on EBL. Recent work on student engagement has shaped the learning of students studying online, with contributions also around reflective practice for new academic staff. He has influenced the development of several UK universities, working earlier on devising the academic infrastructure for the recently-merged University of Manchester. While at Manchester, he was closely involved in the Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning. Peter has contributed significantly to the infrastructure for the educational development community in the UK, through books, research, courses and organisational development. He has been a long-standing Senior Fellowship holder of the Staff and Educational Development Association, earlier acting as Chair of its Fellowships Committee. His co-edited book A Guide to Staff and Educational Development (Kogan Page, 2003) has become a standard text for academic development. Further books on higher education include the co-authored Developing your Teaching (Routledge, 2006) and Collaborative working in higher education (Routledge, 2009). He began his career as a mathematics educator at Liverpool Hope University, authoring Studying Mathematics and its Applications (Palgrave, 2001). His contributions to student learning and academic development have been closely underpinned by research, with journal publications in such areas as reflective practice, student engagement, collaborative working, widening participation, mathematics education, online learning and professional education. For instance, the British Educational Research Journal recently published his article Theorising student engagement in higher education . His theoretical interests centre on adapting and extending realist social theory to the setting of higher education. He is an executive editor for the journal Teaching in Higher Education and an assistant editor at the International Journal for Researcher Development.