Teaching Fellows

Ruth Dineen

Ruth Dineen and Annie Grove White won the Fellowship Award as a team.   

Ruth is currently Principal Lecturer on the BA Graphic Communication Programme in UWIC.  Ruth's main reserach fired is the promotion of creativity in education on an international platform. 

 She has undertaken a comparative action research project into creative teaching with colleagues from Sichuan Institute in China, where Ruth is an Honorary Professor. 

Annie Grove-White

Annie is a Principal Lecturer on the BA Graphic Communication Programme and is the Director of Student Development at Cardiff School of Art and Design (UWIC).  Annie began her career as a Lecturer in Historical and Critical Studies.  Her attention has now moved to the practice of and theory behcind teaching.  Annie is currently working with Ruth on the effectiveness of audio assessment in comparison to written feedback in the art and design context. 

Ruth and Annie also facilitated a dynamic seminar in 2009 with over 20 academics from HE and FE art, media and design institutions in Wales to promote teaching and teaching creativity through the establishment of a Centre for Creative Pedagogy in Art, Media and Design in Wales.  They will use their Fellowship Award to support the establishment of a sustainable Welsh Centre for Creative Pedagogy that embraces all Higher Education Institutes in Wales as participants and contributors. Their initial focus will be on Art, Media and Design, and the award will be partly used towards launching the Centre at a Conference in September 2010.

 

 

Ruth Matheson

Ruth is a Senior Lecturer within the Learning and Teaching  Development  Unit at UWIC. She is responsible for the promotion of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) across the institution. Since joining UWIC in May 2008, Ruth has developed a website to promote CPD, providing tools and resources to help staff.  Ruth is managing 10 projects across UWIC aimed at enhancing learning and teaching through embedding technology.  

Ruth will use her Fellowship Award to create an on-line Problem Based Learning (PBL)/Inquiry-based learning network for Wales. This would promote collaboration across Welsh institutions and would also provide an opportunity to showcase the best of Wales to the world. By providing examples of current practice as an open resource, Ruth hopes that more academic staff will consider this teaching methodology as an option and that it will serve to promote discussion amongst the higher education community in Wales and beyond.

 

 

Jacqueline Young

Jacqueline Young is currently Course Director for the MSc in Nutritional Therapy at the Northern College (NCA), York, which offers University of Wales validated schemes of study. She is also responsible for teaching reflective practice at various institutions and active in promoting and supervising clinical research. She is particularly interested in enhancing student engagement and in improving provision for students with learning differences.

Jacqueline will use her University of Wales Teaching Fellowship to look at ways of facilitating links between teaching and research and fostering research-mindedness amongst students. She will also use the Award to examine best practice for the teaching and learning of reflective practice skills as well as supporting and facilitating learning for students with learning differences such as  dyslexia, dyspraxia and attention deficit disorders (ADD). Jacqueline plans to produce some guidelines and resources that could be shared across institutions with particular reference to their validated courses in complementary medicine.