Professor Kay Sambell

National Teaching Fellow 2002 Kay Sambell is professor of learning and teaching in the School of Health, Community and Education Studies at Northumbria University. She has a long track record of expertise in the assessment of student learning, with research and publications in students' perspectives of innovative assessment, formative assessment, feedback and assessment for learning. She is Director of Assessment for Learning (Enhancement) in Northumbria's Centre for Excellence in Assessment for Learning, with a special interest in student engagement (http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/cetl_afl/). She was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2002 for her work on improving student learning via assessment. Kay's subject area is the emergent interdisciplinary area of Childhood and Youth Studies. She specialises in children's literature. In 2005 she became director of the MEDAL project: a large-scale funded initiative designed to develop students' academic literacy in Childhood Studies. This project brought together a number of National Teaching Fellows to establish an extensive network of university teachers with a focus on Childhood Studies to share expertise and build an online bank of open-access pedagogic resources (http://medal.unn.ac.uk/). Kay regularly presents at conferences, offers keynote talks on assessment for learning and is a member of a range of national and international learning and teaching networks.