Professor Stephen McHanwell

National Teaching Fellow 2007 Stephen McHanwell is Professor of Anatomical Sciences in Dental Sciences at Newcastle University. Teaching since 1976, he has extensive experience in teaching Anatomy to medical, dental, speech sciences and science students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. His interest in getting delivery right to an increasingly diverse cohort of students has led him to constantly innovate and vary modes of delivery. One student says, "the way he teaches the course, you cannot help but learn." He has a major role in developing the teaching and learning agenda of Newcastle University. As a member of the University level Student Opinion Group he has been a key player in designing and implementing the Institutional Student Survey, steering changes to improve student feedback. Stephen has taken up mentoring and leadership roles institutionally, nationally and internationally to support both junior and more senior colleagues to develop their own teaching and to advance the pedagogy of his subject. He has also played a key role in shaping and supporting Newcastle University's Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, a training programme undertaken by all new staff. Stephen has made a major contribution to teaching Anatomy through the publication of Basic Medical Science for Speech and Language Therapy Students, which has been widely adopted as the leading UK textbook in its field. A second edition is in preparation incorporating recent innovations from his own teaching, enthusiastically received by his students. He has also been invited to contribute to the 40th edition of Grays Anatomy. He is currently planning another publication based on a project surveying outreach and other widening participation schemes in UK Dental Schools. The aim of this project is to share and disseminate good practice between the schools. Stephen has been Education Officer of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland for the last nine years. Two years ago he helped to establish, and was invited to act as Secretary General to the Trans European Pedagogic Anatomy Research Group of the European Federation of Experimental Morphologists. He is about to take up a Visiting Professorship at Complutense University in Madrid where he will be working on a project developing a new digital atlas of anatomy for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.