Dr Rachael-Anne Knight

Dr Rachael-Anne Knight is a phonetician with degrees from Roehampton, UCL and University of Cambridge. She has been teaching phonetics to Speech and Language Therapy students at City, University London since 2005, and has won several awards for her innovative teaching and support of students. She became Associate Dean Education (Technology and Innovation) in 2015. 'Rachael-Anne Knight is an education innovator who embraces novel uses of educational technology and encourages others to do so as well. She is immensely valued by colleagues and students alike' Impact of work Rachael-Anne makes extensive use of interactive and technology enhanced learning in her teaching, such as ultrasound, and audience response handsets, which inspires students to learn and progress in phonetics, so that these skills can be utilised in clinical practice. She also actively researches her own pedagogical practices, for example using peer ­ mentoring to help students overcome anxiety in preparation for their phonetics oral exams. Plans for the future Rachael-Anne plans to expand her use of technology in teaching to include mobile technologies, including the use of 'talking head' videos to prepare students for their oral exams. She is also working on projects exploring teaching excellence and frameworks for the development of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.