Professor Miriam Zukas

National Teaching Fellow 2008 Institute at the time of award: University of Leeds I am concerned with pedagogic identities in further, adult and higher education, and more broadly within professional learning and pedagogies. I teach those working in pedagogic roles with others. For example, on the Masters in Clinical Education I teach clinical colleagues who themselves teach in the clinical workplace; on the Masters in Lifelong Learning, I work with professionals in a wide range of contexts who in turn with work with learners; on the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Further Education), I work with teachers in the learning and skills sector. I was awarded a three-year University Teaching Fellowship  from the University of Leeds in January, 2008. My colleague, Janice Malcolm, and I developed a conceptual framework for exploring pedagogic identities. Within higher education, I am also interested in the relationships between teaching, research and discipline, particularly in relation to learning and knowledge production. I focus on the academic and other workplaces as sites for professional learning and pedagogies, and have been particularly concerned with transitions from learning to work. I have a background in feminist and critical psychology, although now regard myself as an educationalist, rather than a psychologist. I am currently the Director of the Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Leeds, although from September 2009, I will be taking up the post of Executive Dean of the School of Social Science, History and Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. I am the Editor of the journal, Studies in the Education of Adults, and am on the Editorial Board of in Continuing Education and Adult Education Quarterly. I am a member of the Executive Board of the Leeds Social Sciences Institute and an honorary member of SCUTREA (the Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults).