Samina Naseeb is teaching-focused lecturer passionate about making science more accessible to children who may not see themselves as ‘science people’. She recently led a Microscopy Foldscope outreach project in less privileged primary schools and schools with higher...
Category: Student support
Supporting Student Academic Development: Content, Comfort and Communication
Dr Amir Rahbarimanesh (Lecturer in Engineering Project Management (EPM) in the Department of Civil Engineering and Management within the School of Engineering, FSE) is a frequent winner of UMSU’s student-nominated academic awards for his teaching, student support and...
Academic Advising and professional development
Caroline Hoyle is a Senior Lecturer in Law and the Senior Academic Advisor for the School of Social Sciences. Earlier this year she achieved professional recognition as Recognised Senior Advisor (RSA) by the UK Association of Advising and Tutoring (UKAT). Here she...
Eye Know How, Co-Creating Team-Based Learning: A Journey in Active Learning
Authors: Catherine Porter, Catherine Collin, Janna Ajmal, Samra Syed Team members: Arij Dar, Fateema Gani, Amy Le, Natasha Qader TBL (Team Based Learning) is a pedagogical strategy designed to foster collaboration, critical thinking, and the application of knowledge....
Why we should consider keeping digital teaching in our plans
Robert Phillips is a senior lecturer in entrepreneurship at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. The Shift to Online Learning During the Pandemic Prior to the pandemic, digital teaching accounted for less than 5 per cent of university...
Using photography as an inclusive approach to hearing students’ voices
At the University of Manchester Teaching and Learning Conference held in July 2023, Heather and Zhuomin presented findings from their project exploring how postgraduate students used photographs to explore and present their experiences while here at UoM. They have...
Increasing dialogue but not workload: developing effective dialogic feedback processes through using interactive coversheets
Craig Davis is a Senior Language Tutor and Academic Leader at the University Centre for Academic English (UCAE) within SALC. He teaches and coordinates a range of courses providing academic language support, primarily for international students. As the assessment...
Bridging the Gap: Preparing Students for the Realities of Employment
This blog is the second part of an interview with Jonathan Hourigan, which will eventually also be published as a podcast. The previous blog, as well as a short biography of Hourigan, can be found here. In our recent podcast with Jonathan Hourigan (soon to be...
Why Showing Up Matters: Unpacking the Power of Attendance in Higher Education
Dr Lei Zeng is a lecturer and a year manager in Fashion Business and Technology working in the Department of Materials. She is passionate about the value of integrating doctoral research into higher education, and she was awarded the FHEA in 2019. In her current role,...
From idle time to relationship building
Toyin is a teaching-focused lecturer in Accounting and Finance. She was recently awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Since 2021, she has been a member of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Committee at AMBS. Toyin is...





