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...
Teacher of the Year 2021 (Humanities): an evidence-based approach
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...
Teaching Innovation: “I am always willing to try new things”
Patricia Perlman-Dee (CFA, SFHEA) is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS, Faculty of Humanities). Her career in HE was preceded by 11 years working in large financial corporations with a wide range of financial markets,...
Inclusion and Inspiration: Education for Social Justice Conference Day
Each year the Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) hosts a conference offering workshops for PGCE students and early career teacher alumni from members of the Institute on their area of expertise. This year’s conference theme was ‘Inclusion and Inspiration:...
Getting involved in the national conversation on graduate workers
Dr Miriam Firth is a Senior Lecturer, Director of Teaching and Learning (Strategy) for the Manchester Institute of Education in the Faculty of Humanities’ School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), and Chairs the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory...
The Highlight of My Year – The AdvanceHE Teaching Excellence Awards
Patricia Clift Martin has worked at the University of Manchester since 2002, following graduation from the University of Leeds with a Masters (by Research) in decision making models. Since 2002 she has worked on a wide range of internally and externally funded...
What can inclusion look like in practice?
Dr Holly Morse is a Lecturer in Bible, Gender and Culture (School of Arts, Languages and Cultures). She joined the University in 2016, shortly after her doctoral thesis was published by Oxford University Press as part of the Oxford Theology and Religion Monograph...
Leaders in Teaching (LiT)
The University’s Leaders in Teaching Programme runs over a six month period each year, and supports and develops a small cohort of around 25 academic and academic-related staff involved in – or aspiring to – positions of leadership in teaching and learning. In this...
Institute news: our 2020/21 Fellowship reports are out
We're delighted to share with colleagues the outputs from the projects completed by our Inaugural ITL Fellows, which focused on a range of ways we can enhance teaching and learning for all of our students. The reports outline each Fellows’ project objectives,...
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