Consultancy in Educational Development is not uncommon. Some Developers take on this role full time, others take on short term or small scale consultancy roles. These can be unpaid, paid a token amount or quite lucrative. The consultants listed below have asked to be included on this page. Neither EDTA, Celia nor Fiona intend inclusion to imply endorsement. If you are looking for a consultant this might aid your search, but as in any contractual agreement both sides need to do their due diligence.
If you would like to be added to this list please email Celia cpopovic@yorku.ca.
Name: Antony Aleksiev
- Email: antony.aleksiev@uwl.ac.uk
- Location: UWL, London, UK
- Area of expertise: Curriculum design and development ; Online and distance-learning design (content, curriculum, assessment, pedagogy); Staff development in teaching and learning
Name: Alasdair Blair
- Email: ablair@dmu.ac.uk
- Institution: De Montfort University
- Areas of Expertise: assessment and feedback, course design, academic development, placement learning, education leadership, coaching.
Name: Cordelia Bryan
- Email: cordeliavbryan@aol.com
- Location: London, UK
- Area of expertise: Curriculum and course (re)design, group development & assessment, peer observation/review, inclusive teaching practices including Compassion focused Pedagogy.
Name: Alice Cassidy
- Email: alicecas@telus.net
- Location: Canada
- Area of expertise: Course (re) design, Workshops for teachers at all levels, Active teaching and learning, Students as co-scholars
Name: Caroline Coles
- Email: c.coles1@aston.ac.uk
- Location: Aston University, Birmingham, UK
- Area of expertise: Marketing and Strategy Development for SMEs; identification and Use of Intellectual Property to assist business entrepreneurship, building and supporting a national community of senior managers
Name: Lisa Endersby
- Email: lendersb@yorku.ca
- Location: York University (Toronto, Canada)
- Area of expertise: Experiential education, students as partners, encouraging/facilitating reflective practice
Name: Tereigh Ewert
- Email: Tereigh.ewert@dal.ca
- Location: Dalhousie U, Halifax NS, Canada
- Area of expertise: "EDI"-- I've been doing the work for years, but have really been digging down into the anti-racist/anti-oppressive/decolonizing pedagogies pieces, and in particular have been focusing on the intertwining of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP). A great deal of my "EDI" work since joining Dal has been doing forensic readings of (through an EDI lens) program proposals, policies, and other institutional documents. I have experience with all the usual ED work, like teaching dossiers, ISWs, grad student teaching, etc. As well, I've been working with (and learning from) amazing EDC colleagues on interrogating the practices of educational development itself, as a colonizing field of work.
Name: Kate Exley
- Email: Kate@Kate-Exley.com
- Location: University of Leeds (PT), HE Assessment & Development Ltd - (Lives in Nottinghamshire)
- Area of expertise: Doctoral Degrees, supervision and Examination and support for Doctoral students, Teaching, Teaching recognition schemes & PGCHE / PGCAP / Masters Programmes
Name: Nigel Francis
- Email: FrancisN10@Cardiff.ac.uk
- Location: Cardiff, UK
- Area of expertise: Using digital resources to enhance laboratory-based learning and teaching including dry lab provision. Founder of #DryLabsRealScience.
Name: Mari Cruz Garcia Vallejo
- Email: Maricruz_garcia@hotmail.com
- Location: Europe, including the UK
- Area of expertise: Digital education, design and deployment of online international education programmes, project management, learning design, deployment of learning platforms such as LMS and ePortfolios. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mari-cruz-garcia-vallejo/
Name: Mick and Ruth Healey
- Email: mhealey@glos.ac.uk; r.healey@chester.ac.uk
- Location: UK
- Area of expertise: Over the last decade we have given over 300 workshops, keynotes and consultancies on learning and teaching in HE in over 25 countries, online and face-to-face, through Healey HE Consultants. Among the topic areas we specialise in are student-staff partnerships; the teaching-research nexus; inquiry-based learning; active learning; scholarship of teaching and learning; social justice; developing an inclusive curriculum; writing about learning and teaching; bringing about change in teaching and learning; refreshing and renewing the curriculum; teaching about ethics; clarifying and evaluating your teaching and learning project or initiative; applying for teaching awards. For further details see: www.mickhealey.co.uk
Name: Karen Heard-Laureote & Carina Buckley: MakeThatHappen Consultancy
- Email: makethathappenconsultancy@gmail.com
- Location: UK
- Area of expertise:
- Promoting and supporting matrix leadership to break down traditional/established silos.
- Facilitating non-hierarchical collaboration in matrix environments.
- Developing flexible pedagogies in live and on-demand delivery modes.
- Transforming curricula for active, problem-based learning and teaching practices.
- Designing student-centered and co-created learning.
- Building learning communities and fostering student belonging.
Name: Karen Heard-Lauréote | KHL Consulting | www.khlconsulting.co.uk
Email: kheardlaureote@gmail.com
Location: UK
Areas of expertise: strategic leadership and development, inclusive organisational design and development, business transformation and change projects, staff development, senior staff mentoring, educational quality enhancement (curriculum, teaching practice and assessment).
Name: Julia Hope
- Email:J.R.Hope@kent.ac.uk
- Location: UK
- Area of expertise: Transition (staff and students) to and within higher education. UKPSF. Developing leadership
Name: Loretta Howard
- Email: Loretta@Transformative.Education
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Area of expertise: Educational Development / Curriculum Development / Program Development & Review / Teacher Education / Faculty Development / Organizational Change / Organizational Leadership / Quality Assurance / Accreditation Processes. Creative and collaborative educator. Leader, and academic consultant with over 25 years in community college, professional college, and university settings. Recognized for innovation and results in creating 21st century, evidence-based, learning-centered, and technology enabled environments. Passionate about transforming teaching and learning practices.
Name: Donna Hurford
- Email: dhu@sdu.dk
- Location: University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark
- Area of expertise: addressing bias in teaching, learning and assessment; internationalising the curriculum; designing and managing group work; collaborative learning
Name: Carolyn Ives
- Email:cives@tru.ca
- Location:Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, BC)
- Area of expertise: Areas of expertise: curriculum and course (re)design, course-level assessment, peer observation/review, inclusive teaching practices
Name: Clare Kell
- Email: ClareMKell1@gmail.com
- Location: Cardiff, UK
- Area of expertise: Strategic development, interim and bespoke educational development, inclusive curriculum, assessment and practice development, research methods and practice workshops and mentoring, mentoring for internal and external teaching awards and recognition schemes.https://clarekellconsulting.co.uk/
Name: Tim Loblaw
- Email: tloblaw@gmail.com
- Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada (Simon Fraser University)
- Area of expertise: 20+ years in educational development; Educational development in the FE or College sector; Learning and teaching technology; Political economy of skills development.
Name: Arushi Manners
- Email: manners.ed.dev@gmail.com
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Area of expertise: Curriculum design and development, Inclusive online teaching, Universal Design for Learning, Evidence-based pedagogy, Program review and quality enhancement
Name: Hazel Messenger
- Email: drhazelmessenger@gmail.com
- Location: UK
- Area of expertise: Curriculum design and development: Transformative pedagogies; Transnational Education staff and partnership development; TNE partnerships; External adviser for validations and reviews; Teaching, learning and assessment development; Leadership development; teaching international students
Name: Rebecca McCarter
- Email: rebecca.mccarter@gmail.com
- Location: Europe
- Area of expertise: Active, collaborative pedagogies, specifically Team-Based Learning.
Name: Rachelle O’Brien NTF, CATE
- Email: Rachelle.e.obrien@durham.ac.uk
- Location: Liverpool, North West, UK
- Institution: Durham University
- Areas of expertise: Strategic leadership and development; business development; curriculum design and development; online and distance learning; digital education; staff development; educational and academic development; creative pedagogies; playful learning; inclusive teaching practices specialising in neurodivergence.
Name: Abby Osborne and Karen Angus-Cole
- Email: abbyosborne@live.co.uk, karen_angus@hotmail.co.uk
- Location: Bath (UK) but also willing to travel and/or work online.
- Area of expertise:
- 1. From wellbeing to welldoing: A combined approach to wellbeing, thinking and learning which promotes lifelong autonomy, resilience and independence for students.
- 2. Patterns beyond labels: Practical and sustainable approaches to embedding inclusivity in teaching, learning and assessment.
- 3. Translating pedagogical theory into impactful practice: Balancing the needs of both student and teacher.
Name: Edd Pitt
- Email: e.pitt@kent.ac.uk
- Location: University of Kent, UK
- Area of expertise: Assessment and Feedback in HE. I have been researching, publishing, consulting, and mentoring in the area of assessment and feedback for 17 years. I have expertise in assessment design, feedback design, pedagogical, empirical and action research design aligned to assessment and feedback. I can provide development workshops for teaching teams as well as 1-2-1 support. I have expertise in policy and practice relating to assessment and feedback in HE too.
Name: Jane Pritchard
- Email: jpritchard@brookes.ac.uk
- Location: UK
- Area of expertise:
Name: Eve Rapley
- Email: everapleyexternalexaminer@hotmail.co.uk
- Location: UK
- Area of expertise: MEd/doctoral supervisor Post-16/HE education, external examiner for Post-16 PGCE/MA, experienced external for validations and reviews (HE and FE education, biosciences and foundation/year 0 provision), FE/HE teacher education, HE cpd and mentoring for AdvanceHE fellowships, personal tutoring, bioscience and landbased pedagogy, peer assisted learning (PAL), College Based HE (CBHE), active learning, curriculum design
Name: David Roberts
- Email: doctordaveroberts@gmail.com
- Location: Midlands, UK
- Area of expertise: Area of expertise.Pedagogy in the digital age; race, racism and inclusivity, https://www.davidrobertsconsulting.org/
Name: Virna Rossi
- Email: inclusivelearningdesign@gmail.com
- Location: Europe
- Area of expertise: Inclusive Learning Design; Universal Design for Learning (to design learning and as a reflection tool); Feedback for learning; Padlet for education; Twitter as a learning tool; Setting up a PGCert course; E-portfolios
Name: Rachel Scudamore
- Email: rachel.scudamore@designforpurpose.co.uk
- Location: Nottingham, UK and online
- Area of expertise: Strategy, leadership and management in educational development; coaching and assessing for internal and national professional recognition and teaching awards; UKPSF scheme, PGCert, and CPD design, evaluation and external advising.
Name: Penny Sweasey
- Email: p.sweasey@gmail.com
- Location: UK
- Area of expertise: HE pedagogy and curriculum enhancement, teaching, learning and assessment design and enhancement, and professional academic development. My starting point is to ensure all students have access to a high quality inclusive learning experience whilst at university.
Name: Ann Thanaraj
- Email: a.thanaraj@tees.ac.uk
- Location: UK and worldwide
- Area of expertise: Online learning curriculum design, development and delivery sector wide practices; Hybrid learning curriculum development; Curriculum design around personalised learning, assessments, student engagement; Interdisciplinary course development; Preparing learners with skills and knowledge for the fourth industrial revolution; CPD for digital empowerment of teaching staff on online and digital learning; Legal Education curriculum development particularly around digital literacies in law.
Name: Rebecca Thomas
- Email: rebecca.thomas@uea.ac.uk
- Location: University of East Anglia, Norwick, UK
- Area of expertise: Acting as an External Examiner has provided important insights into various institutions. I am a regular Course Reviewer, most recently (2019) for the MFA Art and Humanities Programme at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. My published papers are mainly on creative approaches to learning, teaching and research include material on cultural diversity, visual representations of otherness, Digital Storytelling and Visual Methodologies, and the development of extra-curricular educational forms. I have also written about Academic Development and the use of play, participatory-making, and other unconventional approaches.
Name: Keisha Valdez
- Email: kvalnoel@gwmail.gwu.edu
- Location: USA
- Area of expertise: Area of Expertise for consultant service: Designing Student-Centred Online Learning Environments; Course Design for Equity, Inclusion; Coaching Skills for Educational Developers; Developing Coaching Mindset within Faculty/Academic- Advising; Preparing Academics to Incorporate Critical Consciousness and/or Decolonisation in Course Design
Name: Andrea Valente
- Email: valentac@yorku.ca
- Location: Canada (York University) and worldwide
- Area of expertise: Educational Development, ESL teaching/learning, neurodiversity coaching, inclusive pedagogy, postgraduate/TA supervision and mentorship, eLearning
Name: Adrian J. Wallbank
- Email: awallbank@brookes.ac.uk
- Location: UK (Oxford Centre for Academic Enhancement and Development -OCAED).
- Area of expertise: main areas of experience / expertise / research is in inclusive pedagogies, transition pedagogies, Universal Design for Learning, Foundation Year pedagogies, attainment gaps, assessment, writing across the curriculum / writing in the disciplines pedagogies, visual pedagogies, neurodiversity, and the philosophy of Higher Education.
Name: Jenn Weaver
- Email: Jennifer.elisabeth.weaver@gmail.com
- Location: Caltech (Pasadena, California, U.S.A.)
- Area of expertise: STEM education, course design, assessment, inclusive classrooms, TA training, faculty training (particularly STEM faculty), remote teaching, evidence-based pedagogy, active learning, lab-based courses
Name: Joerdis Weilandt
- Email: joerdis.weilandt@uleth.ca
- Location: Canada
- Area of expertise: Expertise in Teacher Training (K-12) and Academic Teaching Development with particular focus on the following areas: Accessibility of Education; Active Learning and Student Engagement; Ethical, Innovative and Purposeful Use of Educational Technology; Inclusive Course Design F2F, Online, Blended) and Curriculum Development ; Language Teaching and Learning as Second and Other Languages (CEFR); Open Education: Content/ Pedagogy/ Research/ Resources/ Software
Name: Gina Wisker
- Email: g.wisker@brighton.ac.uk
- Location: Cambridge, UK
- Area of expertise: postgraduate supervision, doctoral learning, writing for publication, quality assurance, internationalising and decolonising curricula and practice
Name: Peter Wolf
- Email: peter.allan.wolf@gmail.com
- Location: Canada
- Area of expertise: Educational Development Leadership / Curriculum Development / Technology-Enhanced Learning. A strategic and operational leader with over 20 years of educational development, educational technology and learning spaces experience in higher education. A proven track record using a well-established collaborative systems-based approach to capacity building in teaching and learning. A passionate advocate for the continuous improvement of educational culture and evidence-based practices.
Name: Vicki Woodside-Duggins
- Email: vlwduggins@gmail.com
- Location: Ottawa, Canada
- Area of expertise: Area of expertise: Active Learning, Experiential Learning, Workplace Learning, Professional Development, Curriculum Development, Assessment, Change Management, Leadership Development
Name: Marie Xypaki
- Email: Marie.Xypaki@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: UK
- Area of expertise: Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy – Expertise: curriculum design; teacher education; enhancing teaching and learning through experiential learning pedagogies (Education for Sustainable development and Community Engaged Learning); students as partners, facilitating reflective practice, digital education; Inclusive teaching practices; culture change in Higher Education.
Name: Hennie Yip
- Email: hennieyip@ln.edu.hk
- Location: Lingnan University, Hong Kong
- Area of expertise: Blended professional development, e-learning and online learning, Curriculum design and development ; Staff development in teaching and learning; Learning Management Systems
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