TEA Winner 2021: Ben Parslew and ‘Drone From Home’: Building Social Impact into Courses.
Ben Parslew is a lecturer in the school of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, and this is part of our series of blog posts by Teaching Excellence Award winners 2021. Ben led a winning team for the Drone from Home project:Usually, Aerospace Engineering...
Designing Robust, Calculation-Based On-Line Examinations
Dr Amit N. Jinabhai is a Senior Lecturer in Optometry, working in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health. He won a Teaching Excellence Award (2021) for his ability to teach challenging content in innovative and engaging ways, to positive effect on both student...
Reflecting on Leaders in Teaching
Jo Williams is Project Officer working on Teaching and Learning projects in the School of Natural Sciences in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and in this post she reflects on her experience of participating in the ITL’s Leaders in Teaching programme...
Black History Month – October 2022
Celebrating black heritage and culture This month, we celebrate Black History Month in the UK, and colleagues will have the opportunity to recognise and appreciate our Black history at numerous events taking place across the University. Banji Adewumi, Director...
My experience as an SPI
Ffion Neal is a BSc Psychology (currently commencing her 3rd year) and an ITL Student Partner Intern (21/22 and 22/23), working in partnership with an ITL Fellow on a particular pedagogic project. I’m Fi and I am a 2nd year Psychology student who, since October...
Teacher of the Year 2021 (FBMH): Education, Engagement and Entertainment
Ben Chapman is a Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, Zoology at the University of Manchester and the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (BMH)’s Teacher of the Year, 2021. He has been described as an academic who demonstrates a passion and commitment to...
Applied Employability: Giving students a picture of their future selves.
Jackie is Professor of Statistical Literacy in the Department of Social Statistics at the University of Manchester. In 2022 she was awarded a University of Manchester Teaching Excellence. In 2020 Jackie was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship from Advance HE and an...
Teacher of the Year 2021 (FSE): What makes a good lecturer?
Percy van der Gryp started work at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science (CEAS) in November 2018 as a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, having worked previously at Stellenbosch University and North-West University in South Africa. Percy was...
How I learned to stop worrying and love the LEAP
Professor Hannah Cobb shares her journey to AdvanceHE Fellowship, and how this (eventually) took her from struggling to find the time to apply to providing a springboard for National Teaching Fellowship nomination (more on this below Hannah’s story…). I need to...
Teacher of the Year 2021 (Humanities) Part 2: open source communities
Dr Réka Solymosi is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods within the School of Social Sciences, an Honorary Lecturer at University College London, and a member of the Software Sustainability Institute. She joined the University in 2016 after a period working as a...
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