Mentoring

Every educational developer had to start somewhere. Those who progress the quickest and who learn the most, tend to have help from someone or people more experienced than them. Whether that person is from your own institution or not, they can help show you the ropes, and save you from making at least some of the same mistakes. Formalizing this into a mentor arrangement is highly encouraged.

As your experience grows you may consider repaying the favour by becoming a mentor yourself.

Mentor Exchange

People listed below have asked to be included on this page as potential mentors. Neither EDTA, Celia nor Fiona offer any suggestion of endorsing these folk as mentors. We offer this purely as a contact point. If you are seeking a mentor we advise you to do your own due diligence in making your choice.

If you would like to be added to the list as a potential mentor please email Celia - cpopovic@yorku.ca

Name: Lauren Anstey

  • Email: l.anstey@queensu.ca
  • Location: Queen’s University, Kingston ON
  • Area of expertise: Curriculum, Open Education, eLearning

 

Name: David Baume

  • Email: david@davidbaume.com
  • Institution: Freelance, and University of London Centre for Distance Education
  • Areas of Expertise: Course design, teaching, learning, assessment, distance learning, evaluation, using theory, using values, tackling difficult issues, lecturer development and accreditation, supporting development and developers, proud to be co-editor with Celia Popovic of Baume, D. and Popovic, C., 2016. Advancing practice in academic development. 1st ed. Abingdon: Routledge.

 

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: Alice Cassidy

  • Email: alicecas@telus.net
  • Location: Canada
  • Area of expertise: Instructional Skills and Facilitator Development Workshop Facilitator, Designer and Facilitator of Classroom Peer Review, Personal and Professional Coach

 

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: Cait Dennis

  • Email: C.Dennis@leeds.ac.uk
  • Location: Leeds, UK
  • Area of expertise: Medical Education, Faculty Development

 

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 and 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: 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: Letizia Gramaglia

  • Email: Gramaglia@warwick.ac.uk
  • Location:University of Warwick, UK
  • Area of expertise: Educational Development, Curriculum Development, Educational 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Celia Popovic

  • Email: cpopovic@yorku.ca
  • Location: Canada
  • Area of expertise: Educational developers' development, SoTL, course design, experiential education, reflective practice, project management, academic conferences.

 

Name: Jane Pritchard

 

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: 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.I am very happy to support new Heads of Learning and Teaching or Academic and Educational Development units as they begin in their new role.

 

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: 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: 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

 

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: Mel Young

  • Email: mel.young@cambriancollege.ca
  • Location: Sudbury, ON, Canada
  • Area of expertise: Program/course development, faculty orientation and onboarding, alternative assessments, open pedagogy/OER, reflective practice.

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