Professor Alan Booth

National Teaching Fellow 2002 Dr Alan Booth was Reader in History in the School of History at the University of Nottingham and Co-Director of the University's CETL (Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning) in Integrative Learning. Alan is a Dearing Award winner at the University for excellence in teaching, and was from 2000-2007 Co-Director for History in the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology. He is a founding member of Histsotl, the international society for the scholarship of teaching and learning in history, and is a member of the editorial board of the international journal Arts & Humanities in Higher Education. He has also acted as a reviewer of history programmes in many higher education institutions and was a member of the Quality Assurance Agency's History Benchmark Statement Revision Working Party. Alan has led initiatives to advance the teaching of history in higher education at institutional, national and international levels, and has run many seminars and workshops in the areas of history learning and teaching, including strategies for active learning, transition to university, collaborative learning, innovative assessment, research-led teaching and the design of effective learning environments, which have also been areas of innovation in his own teaching. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of late-eighteenth century British social history and the teaching and learning of history in higher education. He has written widely on these, including edited books and articles. His most recent book is 'Teaching History at University: Enhancing Learning and Understanding' (Routledge, 2003). His current interests lie in holistic approaches to history education and, more generally, the development of integrative pedagogies that enable students to come to a deeper awareness of, and connection to, subject, self and others and more fully develop their potential as learners and actors able to negotiate their way in an increasingly complex world.