Having worked at the University for nearly 30 years, Joz teaches Physics on the Foundation Year and plays a key role in widening participation through admissions. We recently met him to find out what he enjoys most about his role, why seeing former Foundation Year students succeed means so much to him and what he enjoys doing outside of the University.
FSE’s Mentoring Excellence Team has recently been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Award celebrating their outstanding support for Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs). Find out more about the origins of the programme and its impact.
Developed initially for postgraduate researchers, the Responsible Research and Innovation module challenges students to think differently about their research, its wider impact and their role as responsible scientists. Read on to find out what inspired Alison to develop the unit, how students responded to learning beyond their disciplinary comfort zones and what the recognition means […]
Programme Directors Barbara (Fashion Business Technology) and Katie (Materials Science and Engineering) reflect on their roles in shaping the student experience, the importance of collaboration, and the impact of acting on student feedback to drive positive change.
Dr Amir Rahbarimanesh shares how empathy, clarity, and student-led adaptation are at the heart of his award-winning approach to assessment and feedback. Discover how he’s supporting students across Engineering Project Management.
Welcome to the FSE Blended and Flexible Toolkit, this series of articles is designed to reaffirm the basic principles behind Flexible and Blended Learning, what do we mean by these terms? How should they be implemented? How we can start to think about flexibility when designing learning materials and how to ensure we create flexible […]
FSE celebrated a night of success and recognition at the 2025 Students’ Union Academic Awards, with outstanding staff and students honoured across multiple categories for their dedication, innovation, and impact.
Students and staff are invited to submit proposals for the 2025 ITL Conference, held on the 2 and 3 July 2025. Various formats are encouraged, such as Wicked Problem Sets, Paper presentations, Poster displays, and Lightning talks. The submission deadline is 5pm 28th February.
Charlene Gallery is a Reader in Digital Fashion Innovation, Employability Lead and Inclusive Pedagogy Specialist in the Department of Materials. She leads the Student Knowledge Exchange (SKE) team that won the Inclusive Education award at the 2024 Teaching Excellence Awards for the SKE project – a project that addresses professional attainment (PA) gaps for international […]
Tom Rodgers is a Reader in Chemical Engineering Education in the Department of Chemical Engineering. At the 2024 Teaching Excellence Awards he won the award for Educational Leadership and Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery. Here Tom tells us how he has focused on developing rich-media resources to allow students to learn at their own pace, developing strategies for group problem solving, peer marking, and in-class discussions.
