Peggy Murphy

National Teaching Fellow 2014 Peggy Murphy is a Nurse Lecturer in the School of Healthcare Sciences at Bangor University. She is an experienced nurse who has worked across the UK and Australia and was promoted to nursing sister in acute medicine. Being an academic with dyslexia underpins her philosophy on learning and teaching and she respects diversity and different ways of learning. She strives to enhance the learning experience of all students. Her passion for learning and teaching has been shaped by her admissions role in pre-registration nurse education. Her interest in widening participation and inclusive practice led her to focus on improving the contact between students and the university during transition between further and higher education. Peggy has researched inclusive practice in admissions and in one study she mapped students pre-entry qualifications against their first-year marks to inform the 'All Wales' selection and admissions process. She has presented joint-working in admissions practice at national and international conferences. Peggy designed early signposting of students to student services within her Feedforward project. This project fostered collaborative working between lecturers and the academic skills team and their work was published in a peer-reviewed journal. She encourages active learning to enhance the student experience focusing on improving student retention through early formative assessment and feedback in the Feedforward initiative. This project aimed to develop students time management skills. Peggy advocates early engagement with assessment and feedback as a strategy for learning and uses this approach to promote student retention and success. She has focussed on reducing attrition rates in pre-registration nursing with marked success earning two teaching in excellence awards due to her work in admissions; retention and formative feedback. In the past year Peggy has presented at Bangor Universitys Academy of Teaching Fellows Conference and at the Australasian Nurse Educators Conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Her Feedforward project was included as an example of good practice in three HEA publications; (2013) Compendium of effective practice in higher education: volume 2; also in (2011) Engaging students to improve student retention and success in higher education in Wales and in (2010) First year student experience Wales: A practice guide.