Dr Phyllis Creme, Senior Research Fellow

Dr. Phyllis Creme is senior research fellow in academic literacies in CALT. She runs the Writing and Learning Mentor project, which supports PhD students to work on writing with undergraduates in their own subjects, and works on the CALT Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education programme. Her research has included uses of student learning journals for learning, and the relationship between academic and creative writing. She is co-author of Writing at University: a guide for students (Open University Press/McGraw Hill,2nd ed. 2003).

Sue Cross, Head of Adult Learning and Professional Development

Sue Cross is Head of Adult Learning and Professional Development. She is responsible for collaboration with UCL departments in the design and delivery of short courses/summer schools and for related policy advice to the college. Programme Leader for the modular MA Adult Learning & Professional Development, she combines teaching and research interests in theoretical and practical aspects of lifelong learning.

During the first phase of her career, Sue taught dance and drama, also directing youth and community arts performances. She now draws upon this experience to apply creative methods to the development of advanced interpersonal skills.

Sue is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She is qualified and experienced in the use of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator ® and is researching into its use in transformative learning to support change in personal and professional life.

Dr Jason Davies, Senior Teaching Fellow

With a background in Classics, History (and particularly history of religion), my prime interest is in Learning and Teaching as a social praxis and the discourse of knowledges and knowers. My recent research and practice centres on Interdisciplinarity (chiefly through the recent UCL Interdisciplinary 'Evidence Programme'). There is more information on my hompage.

Within CALT, I am acting Programme Leader for the MA Education and also the now-closed Academic Practice as well as Graduate Tutor for the Department, and module leader for courses on Quality, Consistency and Cost-Effectiveness, Policy and Perspectives and modules concerned with Academic Practice (Professionalism in the Academic Community and Higher Education and Academic Identity). Like many CALT staff, I am a tutor on our module Exploring Learning in Higher Education and for the Graduate School I run a course for graduate students on Interdisciplinarity Studies of Evidence

I also maintain our wiki and maintain a number of UCL email lists: I recently took over running the Interdisciplinary Evidence email list; I also maintain user groups (iPhone, LaTeX) and a History of Medicine list).

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Professor Lewis Elton, Honorary Professor of Higher Education

Professor Elton divides his time between being Honorary Professor at UCL and Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester. At UCL he is available for advice on any matters related to teaching, learning and assessment and on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning throughout the College. He has recently worked on Problem Based Learning with Electrical and Electronic Engineering and with Educational Psychology, on Individualised Learning with the Bartlett and on Assessment with Primary Care and Population Science. At Manchester, his main concern is with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and associated Academic Staff Development.

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Dr Jane Hughes, Lecturer

Jane Hughes came to EISD/CALT from the UCL Computer Science Department and her main area of expertise is eLearning. Her research, teaching and educational development work in this area are closely linked. She works with colleagues across UCL on internally- and externally-funded projects including (currently): evaluating innovative approaches to bioscience teaching; exploring the role of technology in classroom-based language learning;investigating perceptions of global citizenship and internationalisation; staff experiences and perceptions of blended learning. She teaches on the UCL Postgraduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching in HE (CLTHE) and is course leader for the MA in Learning Technology Research and for the eLearning components of CALT's MA Education. She works in close collaboration with staff who support eLearning in Information Systems (LTSS), Media Resources and Library Services.

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Terry King, Research Fellow

Terry King is a part time Research Fellow. Currently he is managing two projects which involve cross-sector collaboration. First, the ATLAS project, which aims to investigate the attitudes of school students towards learning languages and to encourage them to consider learning a new language at University. At present, June 2008, ATLAS covers ten languages. Five more are to be added in the coming year. Second, the CROSSCALL project which links language classes in secondary schools with undergraduates and teachers of the target language, using electronic communication. Previously he had worked on the VDML project (Virtual Departments for Minority Languages). Also, funded by an ESRC small award, he investigated the factors affecting recruitment to courses in the less widely taught languages.

Currently, he has just completed a survey of UCL's Personal Tutoring arrangements via interviews with Department Tutors and an on-line questionnaire for UCL undergraduates.

An eternal optimist, his background is in teaching, the study of general linguistics, leading staff development and team management.

Judith MacBean, Research Fellow

Judith MacBean's main research interest is in students' experiences and conceptions of mathematics at undergraduate level, both as a main subject and as a service subject. She also works with departments across college to help them set up Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) programmes. Please do not hesitate to contact her for further information. She is currently working part time in CALT as a research fellow, while also working towards her PhD in mathematics education at Kings College London.

Dr Jenny Marie, Senior Teaching Fellow

Jenny Marie facilitates the development of key skills at UCL. She is currently leading a pilot of UCL's new personal tutoring and key skills systems. She teaches on a variety of skill development courses, including the Personal and Professional Management Skills residential course. Jenny is also currently leading the MA Education module review. She leads the 'Issues in Research Practice' module and contributes to the 'Developing the Curriculum in Higher Education' and 'Professional Development in Practice' modules.

Carol Massey, Academic Administrator

Carol Massey is the Academic Administration Manager for CALT. Her main responsibilities include administration of CALT's modular programme, MA Education, and other departmental teaching initiatives. Please contact Peter Phillips (peter.phillips@ucl.ac.uk; tel 020 7679 1792, ext 41792) to discuss access to the CALT Teaching and Learning Library (see CALT Library)

Anne McGee, Tutor in Academic Literacies

Anne McGee works on CALT’s Academic Communication Programme. She teaches on Writing in Academic Contexts, offers one-to-one writing consultations to students across UCL, works with graduate mentors on the Writing and Learning Mentor Programme and collaboratively with other departments on writing development. She is also responsible for administrative issues relating to the department’s research students. Her research interests include function and meaning in spoken and written language and the transition and identity of students entering UK higher education.

Dr Colleen McKenna, Lecturer

Dr Colleen McKenna is a lecturer in CALT. Her interests include academic and electronic literacy, humanities computing, assessment, dialogism and contemporary Irish poetry. Before joining UCL, Colleen worked on a national project investigating the use of computers in assessment. Prior to that, she lectured in English literature at several UK universities.

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Brigitte Picot, Director of CALT

Contact details:
Tel: 00 44 (0)20 7679 5939; UCL ext: 45939
Email: calt-director@ucl.ac.uk

Wendy Riley, Development Officer, Adult Learning and Professional Development

Wendy Riley manages the strategic and practical development of UCL’s programme of commercial short courses and conferences. She has worked in educational development at both national and institutional levels, in both higher and further education, and in a range of subjects, from exercise teaching to postgraduate medicine.

Professor Stephen Rowland, Professor of Higher Education

Having researched learning in school and university settings, my main interests as Professor of Higher Education are higher education policy and practice and how educational enquiry can improve academic practice. My publications include The Enquiring Classroom (Falmer, 1984), The Enquiring Tutor (Falmer, 1993), The Enquiring University Teacher (OUP/SRHE, 2000) and The Enquiring University.

My inaugural lecture at UCL - "Is the university a place of learning? Compliance and contestation in higher education" - was given on 15th November 2001.

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Dr Holly Smith, Lecturer

Holly Smith is the programme leader for the Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (CLTHE), which is now part of the MA Education offered by CALT. Before joining UCL in 2000 she lectured in Psychology, and retains an interest in gender and qualitative and quantitative research methods (including repertory grid techniques, concept mapping and Discourse Analysis). Current interests in learning and teaching in Higher Education focus on the development of HE teachers and peer assessment.

Fay Stevens, Teaching Fellow

Fay is a teaching fellow at CALT. Her teaching includes courses in Writing in Academic Contexts, Writing Science and The Visual Essay as Methodology to Writing. She has also been involved with the Writing and Learning Mentor Project for a number of years. Her interests include writing in the discipline, writer identity and the interplay between theory and practice and how it is articulated. Based around these interests are the near completion of a Secondment placement at CALT for a project ‘Exploring writing transitions: A disciplinary perspective within the field of archaeology’ and a co-run HEA Teaching Development Grant for a project ‘Reflective Pedagogies: Promoting Reflexive Practice in Archaeological Fieldtrips’.

Fay is currently completing a PhD at the Institute of Archaeology (UCL) and lectures in Higher Education at University of Reading and University of Notre Dame and in Continuing Education at Universities of Oxford and Birkbeck (University of London).

Dr Paul Walker, Senior Lecturer

Primary interest and responsibility is in the development of personal and professional skills within graduate research degrees, being Course Director for the assessed skills components within various UCL Masters and Doctoral level programmes. Research and development interests in conceptions of learning and teaching, academic skill development, and facilitation in teaching.

Dr Mark Weyers, Senior Teaching Fellow

Dr. Mark Weyers is a Senior Teaching Fellow in CALT. He teaches new UCL lecturers on the Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (CLTHE) and the MA in Education. Before joining UCL in January 2006, Mark taught new lecturers at the University of Surrey and was the course leader for the Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) and was a senior lecturer at the University of Greenwich in the department of education and training where his central role was training FE teachers to teach.

His research interests to date have focused on how students' perceptions of the teaching-learning environment (teaching, assessment and environmental factors) influence how they approach their studies. In addition, his work has involved looking at how classroom-based activities and assessments can be designed to encourage students to engage at a deeper level with the subject. His book titled: Teaching the FE Curriculum: Encouraging Active Learning in the Classroom (Continuum, 2006) focuses on practical techniques, based on scholarly research, for actively engaging students in the classroom.

Man Yang, Teaching and Learning Technology Support Officer

Man Yang is a Teaching and Learning Technology Support Officer in CALT. She is mainly involved in providing technical support for department's work in developing innovative approaches to teaching and learning based on the use of C&IT. She has lots of interest in web and database design and development.