Dawn Holmes is a Lecturer in Marketing working in the Alliance Manchester Business School. Academia is a second career for Dawn, who previously spent 30 years as a marketing practitioner. Since discovering a love of teaching, she has been awarded a teaching bursary...
Dr Christos Begkos is an Assistant Professor in Management Accounting (Alliance Manchester Business School) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Back in September, Christos received a Teaching Excellence Award for his novel use of social media...
Professor Raj Ariyaratnam (SFHEA, NTF) is Chair in Dental Education and Global Oral Health and Dr Eleni Deligianni is a Clinical Lecturer in Oral Medicine in the Division of Dentistry, School of Medical Sciences. In the second instalment of this 2-part...
In Part 1 of this 2-part post, Professor Raj Ariyaratnam, Chair in Dental Education and Global Oral Health, and Dr Eleni Deligianni, Clinical Lecturer in Oral Medicine, from the Division of Dentistry, School of Medical Sciences, share how "I am your patient today" -...
We are delighted that Professor April McMahon, Vice-President for Teaching, Learning and Students, is rounding off our series of posts reflecting on teaching and living through the pandemic. Here the focus is on silver linings, including the paradox that relying on...
Professor Claire McGourlay is Director of External Relations for the School of Social Sciences and is a Principal Fellow of the HEA and a National Teaching Fellow. After the pandemic started, she began writing a blog about her Covid-19 teaching journey; Part 1 was...
Dan Jagger SFHEA is a manager in the Faculty of Science and Engineering eLearning team. In this post Dan reflects on the challenges faced by him and his team of eLearning professionals as they adapted to supporting Blended Learning over the past 18 months. ...
Andy Smith is a part-time lecturer in theatre practice within the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. In this blog, he looks back on the past semester, thinks about some of the challenges it has brought to the teaching of his course in contemporary theatre making,...
Jenni Rose (Senior Lecturer in Accounting and one of the University's Teachers of the Year 2020) shared a video in which she demonstrated some of the blended learning tools that had worked really well for her last year and detailed some of the ways in which she...
Ayma Masood Khan is a Biomedical Sciences student and a Student Partner Intern (SPI), and has been part of our Online Blended Learning (OBL) cohort this year. Over the 2020/21 academic year this cohort of SPIs have worked in partnership with staff, undertaking...
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