Staff and students

  • Professor Martyn Kingsbury

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    Professor Martyn Kingsbury Director, Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Research interests

    Authenticity, self-efficacy, attribution and agency, particularly in liminal contexts and in relation to well-being in both face-to-face and online contexts. I am also interested in concept mapping and graphical representation of ‘knowledge structures’ and in transformational learning and the research and teaching nexus.

  • Ruth Stannard

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    Ruth Stannard Centre Manager

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

  • Vilma Rupeikaite

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    Vilma Rupeikaite Centre Manager

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

  • Dr Mark Anderson

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    Dr Mark Anderson Senior Teaching Fellow in Educational Development

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Research interests

    Educational anthropology; learning and culture; identity and power; active and authentic learning; ritual and cultural transmission; diversity and inclusivity; transformative learning; curriculum design; ethnographic methods

  • Mrs Nikki Boyd

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    Mrs Nikki Boyd Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Education

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Research interests

    Exploratory, participatory and interdisciplinary approaches to research (including with children and young people); patients as educators; the experiences of medical students

  • Dr Richard Bale

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    Dr Richard Bale Honorary Senior Teaching Fellow in Educational Development

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Research interests

    Intercultural competence of teachers and students; intercultural feedback literacy; learning, teaching and assessment strategies in multilingual and multicultural classrooms; performative aspects of teaching; teaching as performance; academic practice development of early career academics; students as partners in the learning process

  • Su Beasley

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    Su Beasley Workshops Coordinator

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

  • Dr Tiffany Chiu

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    Dr Tiffany Chiu Principal Teaching Fellow in Educational Development

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Research interests

    Assessment and feedback; student-staff expectations and perceptions of higher education; critical discourse analysis; academic language and literacies; writer identity

  • Sheri Djafer

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    Sheri Djafer Communication and Research Co-ordinator

    020 7594 8787

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

  • Dr Camille Kandiko Howson

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    Dr Camille Kandiko Howson Professor of Education

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Research interests

    Pedagogy; student engagement and learning gain; quality, performance and accountability; curriculum change; gender and prestige in academic work; concept mapping in educational research

  • Dr Jo Horsburgh

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    Dr Jo Horsburgh Principal Lecturer in Medical Education and Director of Postgraduate Study

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Research interests

    Medical educator identity development; gender and education; social accountability in medical education; role modelling and social learning

  • Dr Kate Ippolito

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    Dr Kate Ippolito Principal Lecturer in Educational Development

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Research interests

    Learning from role modelling; inclusive teaching and learning, including around assessment; team-based learning; personal tutoring

  • Dr Nashwa Ismail

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    Dr Nashwa Ismail Research Associate

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Research interests

    Technology-Enhanced Learning; Generative AI in Teaching & Learning; Games-Based Learning; Education Leadership; Sex Education; Qualitative Research Methods; Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA); Systematic Reviews

  • Dr Julie Moote

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    Dr Julie Moote Senior Teaching Fellow in Educational Development

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

  • Luke McCrone

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    Luke McCrone Research Associate

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Research interests

    Active learning; transitional space; education strategy; space design; student partnership; ethnographic methods'

  • Dr Iro Ntonia

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    Dr Iro Ntonia Principal Teaching Fellow in Educational Development

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Research interests

    Educational neuroscience; individual variability in learning; Universal Design in learning; inclusive curriculum design

  • Dr Dave Riley

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    Dr Dave Riley Honorary Senior Lecturer in Educational Development

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Scholarly interests

    Fully retired now, with continuing interests in the scholarship of higher and professional education. In particular, interests in the ‘ecological turn’ within higher education and the dynamics of educational development.

  • Dr Monika Pazio Rossiter

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    Dr Monika Pazio Rossiter Principal Teaching Fellow in Educational Development

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Research interests

    Digital learning; students as producers; feedback and assessment; adoption of innovation; educational change

  • Mr Thomas Ross

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    Mr Thomas Ross Programmes Co-ordinator

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

  • Sue Sing

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    Sue Sing Research Associate

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Research interests

    Relationship between learning, wellbeing and agency; enhancing the student experience; risk-taking and (dis)comfort in learning; staff-student partnerships; creative research methods

  • Dr Andréia Vargas-Seymour

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    Dr Andréia Vargas-Seymour Senior Teaching Fellow in Educational Development

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Research interests

    Feedback literacy, intercultural competence, digital education (including generative AI tools for education), universal design for teaching, learning and assessment, team-based learning

  • Dr Julianne Viola

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    Dr Julianne Viola Research Associate

    Location

    Level 5, Sherfield Building
    Exhibition Road
    South Kensington
    London
    SW7 2AZ

    Research interests

    Youth identity, agency, and efficacy; civic education; civic engagement; youth in contemporary society; youth engagement with technology and social media; technology in education