Education support contacts in your faculty and department

Central teams, Faculty Education Teams and Faculty Learning Technology Leads will work with departmental Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators (CMCs), Connected Learning Leads and E-Learning Champions.

New faculty and departmental support arrangements have been established to support education teams in moving us beyond the largely successful emergency response to the Covid-19 pandemic, to a more sophisticated approach for the 2020-21 academic year.

Connected Learning is our distinctive approach to online, socially distanced or blended teaching, learning support and assessment, focusing firmly on a quality learner experience. 

Faculty Education Teams (including Vice Deans Education) are supported by Faculty Learning Technology Leads, Arena Fellows, Digital Education Advisors and Library colleagues to develop practical guidance, training, templates and examples. Central teams will also make a comprehensive staff development and support programme available over the Summer.

New departmental support structures will underpin the Faculty Education Teams, Faculty Learning Technology Leads and central support services to efficiently cascade this training and guidance to all colleagues. Each department has at least one named Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinator, Connected Learning Lead and E-Learning Champion who, alongside the Department's Head of Education, will act as a Departmental Connected Learning Team.

These Connected Learning Teams will, in turn, be supported by the central and faculty-based roles to ensure their colleagues feel able and confident to provide an excellent remote or socially distanced educational experience for our students.  

Descriptions and named contacts for each of these roles are provided below.

Faculty Education Teams

Faculty Education Teams have been established to work in collaboration with the Gold/Silver/Bronze crisis management structure to ensure that UCL can continue to function smoothly for the duration of this crisis, and emerge from it stronger and more resilient.

They will coordinate consultation on proposals arising from Bronze Groups and lead the implementation of actions agreed by Gold/Silver.  Led by the Dean, and with a nominated Convenor, each Faculty Education Team comprises a small number of senior staff with some departmental representation.

Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators (CMCs)

As the coronavirus outbreak escalated, every department nominated at least two Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators (CMCs) - one academic and one professional services represenative - to input into and disseminate resources, guidance and policy updates emerging from various education mitigation groups established to ensure teaching and assessment continuity.

The CMCs are named contacts to help you plan and deliver teaching and assessment during the coronavirus outbreak. CMCs receive a weekly bulletin from the Office of the Vice Provost (Education & Student Affairs) summarising any key policy decisions, new staff guidance or student communications that have have been released or planned for that week. Faculty Tutors and Vice Deans (Education) also receive these bulletins. The CMCs, working with Faculty Tutors, are responsible for determining the best approach and channels for disseminating that information to their colleagues and students, as this varies across the university.

Faculty Learning Technology Leads

Faculty Learning Technology Leads are experienced learning technologists who will:

• Support the network of departmental connected learning leads and e-learning champions within the faculty and coordinating/supporting their staff development to enable them to support departmental colleagues.
• Run training and development for faculty staff in partnership with Digital Education and Arena.
• Oversee development and implementation of local variants of Moodle templates
• Advise staff on teaching and learning-focused online communication, facilitation and student support.
• Train students assistants to create online content.
• Identify issues and challenges faced by departmental teams and feeding them back to Digital Education and Arena as needed.

Your Faculty Learning Technology Lead is named under your faculty. You can also view the full list of Faculty Learning Technology Leads. 

Departmental Connected Learning Leads

Departmental Connected Learning Leads are experienced lecturers or teaching fellows who are appointed to work across programmes and modules to:

• Support departmental colleagues and create opportunities for colleagues to network and support one another.
• Tailor advice and templates for local contexts.
• Provide some hands-on input where needed.
• Escalate to Digital Education and Arena where necessary.
• Facilitate staff development, with support from Digital Education and Arena.
• Oversee a common approach to student induction, bonding activities and student support.
• Supervise PGTAs and students who may have been engaged to work on course development.

The departmental Connected Learning lead will be supported by:

• the department’s two E-learning Champions;
• the department’s two Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators;
• their Faculty's Connected Learning coordinator and Faculty Education Team;
• Digital Education and Arena faculty-facing staff.

E-Learning Champions

Most departments have one academic, one professional services e-learning champion, whose informal role is to champion the use of technology in education, and to ensure that central teams are aware of local issues and initiatives. This is a long-standing network which will now work with and support the Connected Learning Lead role by:

• acting as a point of contact with Digital Education Advisor;
• facilitating local Champion and digital education groups;
• providing updates of local initiatives and concerns;
• participating in departmental T&L committees as appropriate; and
• contributing to the monthly E-Learning Newsletter, case studies etc.

See the list of current E-Learning Champions. 

Faculty Education Team

See the Joint Faculties section for details of the Faculty Education Team for Arts and Humanities. 

Faculty Learning Technology Lead

Abbi Shaw

Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators and Connected Learning Leads

Faculty contacts:

• Stella Bruzzi
• Alexander Samson
• Julie Smith

Faculty Education Team

Convenor: Rebecca Payne – Student Experience Officer

Representatives from Bartlett sections:

Convenor: Rebecca Payne

Faculty Learning Technology Lead

Sam Ahern

Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators and Connected Learning Leads

Faculty Education Team

Convenor: Julie Evans

Faculty Learning Technology Lead

Neil Roberts

Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators and Connected Learning Leads

Faculty contacts:

• Julie Evans
• Shibhan Atack

Faculty Education Team

Convenor: Ms Vicki Kimmins (v.kimmins@ucl.ac.uk), Faculty Education Officer.

Faculty Learning Technology Lead

Anna Trostnikova 

Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators and Connected Learning Leads

Faculty Education Team

Convenor: Noreen Kassem, Head of Academic Programmes Office.

Faculty Learning Technology Lead

Tim Neumann 

Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators and Connected Learning Leads

Faculty CMC contacts:

• Nobert Pachler
• Noreen Kassem
• Elke Theissl

Faculty Education Team

Convenor: Piet Eeckhout, Dean. 

Faculty Learning Technology Lead

Tim Neumann

Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators and Connected Learning Leads

Faculty Education Team

Convenor: Hazel Smith, hazel.smith@ucl.ac.uk  

Faculty Learning Technology Lead

Janice Kiugu

Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators and Connected Learning Leads

Faculty CMC contacts:

• Hazel Smith
• Geraint Rees
• Loren Moyse

Faculty Education Team

Convenor: Ivan Parkin

Faculty Learning Technology Lead

Rich Osborne 

Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators and Connected Learning Leads

Faculty Education Team

Convenor: Blathnaid Mahony

Faculty Learning Technology Lead

Taylor Bennie 

Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators and Connected Learning Leads

Faculty Education Team

Convenor(s): Mike Rowson, Vice Dean Education and Faculty Tutor and Caroline Horslen, Faculty Education Officer. 

Faculty Learning Technology Lead

Sean Gainford

Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators and Connected Learning Leads

Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators and Connected Learning Leads

Social and Historical Sciences

Faculty Education Team

See the Joint Faculties section for details of the Faculty Education Team for Social and Historical Sciences. 

Faculty Learning Technology Lead

Fiona Harvey

Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators and Connected Learning Leads

Faculty Education Team

Tier 1

Education Team for Joint Faculties (Arts and Humanities, Social and Historical Sciences):

Convenor: Kitty Ho (JF Quality Assurance and Governance Officer) kitty.ho@ucl.ac.uk

Meetings: 2 x 1 hour per week

Tier 2

The Joint Faculties would then continue to discuss education matters (implementation, refinement, actions and procedure) at faculty-level via each faculty's regular Heads of Department (A&H to include SSEES).

Convenor: Kitty Ho

Meetings: 3 x 1 hour per week

Covid-19 Mitigation Coordinators and Connected Learning Leads

CMC contacts:

• Arne Hofmann
• Katie Canada

Questions or corrections

For any questions or amendments to the list, please contact the Teaching Continuity mailbox.