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Contact details and team information for the UCL Arena Centre.
The Arena Centre shapes UCL’s distinctive teaching and learning through our Connected Curriculum framework for research-based education.
Guided by UCL’s Education Strategy, we offer support for
- curriculum and learning design
- individual professional development to all staff who teach and support learning
- resources workshops and consultancy (at UCL and internationally) on education development
Through scholarship, networking and horizon scanning, our team of Teaching Fellows maintains UCL’s position in the vanguard of developments in the higher education sector, building the capacity of UCL staff to deliver high quality, innovative education.
We work closely with the Office of the Vice-Provost (Education and Student Affairs) on institution-wide projects, quality assurance and managing UCL’s submission to the Teaching Excellence Framework.
We work closely with the Student’s Union UCL on student-staff partnerships to improve the student experience, particularly through ChangeMakers.
View members of the team by function:
- Director and Associate Directors
- Teaching Fellows
- Administration
- Project Management
- Communications
- Consultants and secondees
Director and Associate Directors
- Dr Sam Smidt - Academic Director
- Dr Jennifer Griffiths - Associate Director, Recognition, Development and Resources
- Dr Jenny Marie - Associate Director, Quality Assurance and Enhancement
- Dr Alex Standen - Associate Director, Early Career Academic and Research Supervisor Development
Teaching Fellows
- Dr Brent Carnell - Principal Teaching Fellow
- Dr Silvia Colaiacomo - Senior Teaching Fellow
- Dr Jason Davies - Principal Teaching Fellow
- Dr Nick Grindle - Senior Teaching Fellow
- Jesper Hansen - Senior Teaching Fellow
- Karen Matthewman - Senior Teaching Fellow
- Dr Teresa McConlogue - Principal Teaching Fellow
- Dr Vincent Tong - Principal Teaching Fellow
Administration
- Sonale Karadia - Deputy Head of Resources and Executive Assistant to the Director
Project management
- Valentina Barbaria - Projects Manager, Research Supervision and Early Career Academic Development
- Moira Paganelli - Projects Officer, Research Supervision and Early Career Academic Development
- Peter Phillips - Projects Manager, Recognition, Development and Resources
- Abbie King - Projects Manager, Quality Assurance and Enhancement
- Fiona Wilkie - Projects Officer, Quality Assurance and Enhancement
Communications
- Lauren Hawkridge - Communications and Events Manager, UCL Arena centre
Consultants and secondees
- Professor Simon Walker - Enhancement Lead
- Dr Rosalind Duhs - BME Attainment Project support and Higher Education Academy Accreditor and Consultant (former Academic Director of UCL Arena Centre)
- Jane Skirving - Higher Education Academy and Arena Fellowships delivery and assessment (seconded from UCL Centre for Languages & International Education (CLIE))