National Teaching Fellows

Melanie is an internationally renowned Advanced Nurse Practitioner, educator and researcher.
She is the Professor of Advanced Practice and Spirituality at the University of Huddersfield. Melanie is currently the Director of the International Council of Nurses Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nurse Academy of Research and Enterprise and holds an international certification as a Global Nurse Consultant.

Her international work and collaborations are extensive and well developed; she has been presented with the Queens Nurse award for her work in practice and education and became a National Teaching Fellow in 2021.

Melanie is passionate about advanced practice as a way of providing the care needed at the point of need for patients. Her work and research has focused on how to provide truly holistic care to patients and her doctoral studies have led to a framework for Nurse Practitioners to help patients find hope, meaning and purpose during times of illness and challenge.

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National Teaching Fellow 2013 Dr Rupert Ward is an innovative and reflective practitioner who has contributed to a broad range of technology and process-based improvements which have had a significant impact on student learning, both in the UK and internationally.

Combining expertise in computing, physics and education, Rupert has been able to incorporate a broad range of educational perspectives into student-focused initiatives in online and virtual environments, mobile applications and web-based development in areas such as personalised learning, digital skills, entrepreneurship and assessment and feedback.

He has also contributed to improvements in a broad range of processes at the institutional, national and international level. These include digital badging and micro-credentialing, quality enhancement procedures, assessment and feedback, student satisfaction and engagement, employability and private sector involvement in higher education.

Rupert works collaboratively with students and colleagues, and has been part of teams recognised nationally for assessment and feedback (Highly Commended, ICT Innovation of the Year, THE Leadership & Management Awards), student experience (National Acquisitions Group Award for Excellence and Guardian Award for Student Experience), employability (THE Entrepreneurial University of the Year), customer service excellence and enterprise.

He has also been recognised by the Higher Education Academy for his strategic impact and wider commitment to academic practice and enhancing the student learning experience as one of its first Principal Fellows. Rupert's main teaching and learning interests include technology enhanced learning (especially international higher education development), quality enhancement and the student experience where he has co-developed one of the world’s leading technology acceptance models (GETAMEL) and one of the world’s leading digital badge solutions (iDEA).

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Eddie is a Principle Enterprise Fellow in Music Technology who also works independently as a sound editor and sound designer.

Starting lecturing in 1998, Eddie delivered courses in music for dance and film in Scarborough, developing a career defining interest in learning through multi-discipline collaboration. Since retraining in education research and social sciences, Eddie completed a PhD with the Open University, has worked for four HEIs and launched several new initiatives designed to foster informal learning apprenticeships, with an emphasis on enabling pathways for girls, women, and people of marginalised genders in the audio industries. 
Eddie created CollabHub as an extra-curricular cross-discipline community in 2012, enabling students from different subject areas to collaborate and pool their areas of interest and expertise, then develop small projects building confidence, familiarity and long-term professional relationships. Almost 1000 students passed through this community.

Eddie then initiated the Yorkshire Sound Women Network [YSWN] in 2015 which began by delivering regular workshops for people interested in music technology, and inspiring several spin-off groups.
YSWN became a Community Interest Company, generating over £187k investment since 2015 for operation and development, workshops, education programmes such as the Wired which has been delivered for young people in numerous locations, investment in YSWN regional community groups, podcasts, seminar series, the industry facing diversity and inclusion training initiative, and paid traineeships.

YSWN has reached over 1,740 people via employment, education participation, workshop leaders, podcast development, audience engagement and the development of a pool of paid professionals. Eddie's research is embedded in YSWN workshop training and they remain involved in the organisation as one of several co-directors.
YSWN demonstrates how informal, low risk environments foster learning and creativity through mentoring, enabling learners to explore new partnerships and interests in a way that provides new access to established networks and institutions.
More information about YSWN funders, the team, activities and resources can be found on the YSWN website. 

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Georgina is the Acting Dean in the School of Human and Health Sciences, having previously been the Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning. 

Prior to joining Huddersfield, she was Director of Teaching and Learning at the Open University, where she focused on the production of distance-learning materials for entry-level introductory Social Science modules which were taken by 6,000 students annually.

Approximately 40% of entry-level students had low/no prior educational qualifications and/or low socio-economic status and 20% declared a disability. This demographic required inclusive teaching to enable all students to fulfil their potential by ensuring students’ different learning needs were met and barriers preventing their learning were removed. Georgina achieved this through the use of pedagogy; by designing bespoke online activities. Technology; through original animations, and learning analytics; through VLE engagement data.

Georgina won a number of prizes and nominations for this work including the European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities (2018/2019) and being shortlisted for the Most Innovative Teacher of the Year in the THE Awards in 2017.
She became a National Teaching Fellow in 2020 and was shortlisted again in 2020 for the Most Innovative Teacher of the Year in the THE Awards. 

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Pedagogic lead in the Strategic Teaching and Learning Team and Course leader and Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Huddersfield. Jane achieved National Teaching Fellowship in 2022. 

Jane's work is focused on widening participation and success for under-represented groups of students.
Transitions, lifelong learning and creating strong educational communities are central to her research and project interests.
Jane has been highly involved with actioning the 'beginning university' initiatives including 'Flying Start', 'Ready, Steady, Study' and 'Huddersfield Essentials', working on principles of belonging and activity-based learning. 

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Kevin Orr is Professor of Work and Learning and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) in the University of Huddersfield’s School of Education and Professional Development.

Before joining the University in 2006, Kevin worked in further education colleges for sixteen years, and his research and practice continues to focus on technical and vocational education and training (TVET).
He was awarded his National Teaching Fellowship for his work in this area.

Kevin sits on national advisory panels for TVET, and he is a former editor of the Journal of Vocational Education and Training.

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Professor Michael Clarke has worked at the University of Huddersfield for over 35 years.
Michael is a composer and developer of software for sound synthesis and music analysis, and to enhance teaching and learning.
His software has won European Academic Software Awards on three occasions and he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2011.

In recent projects he has pioneered the Interactive Aural approach to music analysis.
This enables students to hear the analysis in sound and engage with it interactively. The AHRC-funded project ‘Technology and Creativity in Electroacoustic Music’ (2012-2015) resulted in the book Inside Computer Music (Oxford University Press, 2020), co-authored with Frédéric Dufeu and Peter Manning, in which written text is integrated with extensive software.

Most recently Michael has led the IRiMaS project (Interactive Research in Music as Sound) funded by an ERC Advanced Grant (2017-2023) which further develops the interactive aural approach to research and learning for a much broader range of musics. 

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Richard is the Head of Department and Professor of Intelligent Systems at the University of Huddersfield and has been teaching programming and distributed computing for 20 years.

Richard’s teaching philosophy is rooted in widening access to higher education. He transforms academic operations to become more inclusive for traditionally under-performing students, who need to feel confident about solving complex real-world problems, so that they can fulfil their potential.

As Head of Department, Richard uses his formative experiences as a teaching academic to collectively build an inclusive learning environment. Richard’s impact both as an academic, and as a leader of academics, can be attributed to three key areas: curriculum innovation, changing the learning environment and inclusive technology which enables students to bring about their own change. 

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Dr Mark Mynett is a Senior Lecturer in Music Technology and Production.  
 
Drawing heavily on his previous career as professional record-producer, Mark has worked in some of the world’s top studios, produced albums for various major labels and has collaborated with the world’s greatest producers. This puts him in the unique position of being able to act as the bridge between practitioner and academia. 
The reach, value and transformative impact of his teaching and learning excellence was evidenced by the ‘Inspirational Lecturer of the Year’ award, which ran from 2012-2018, Mark won the ‘Inspirational Lecturer of the Year’ award three times, in 2014, 2016 and 2017 (the only lecturer to receive the accolade more than once). 
Mark has founded and shaped metal music production education as a legitimate and valuable international field.  
 
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Liz is Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning and Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Education and Professional Development.

She has pioneered curriculum practices using technology enhanced learning techniques and lead the MSc Technology Enhanced Learning for over a decade. Her students, who are often teachers in colleges, schools and universities, have gone on to bring about change in their institutions. Several have won national awards, and several have published in peer-reviewed journals from the work that they developed whilst taking the MSc Technology Enhanced Learning.

As Director of Teaching and Learning in the School of Education and Professional Development, she has led a programme to reimagine how the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) can more effectively support students. This has led to improvements in student satisfaction and engagement with the VLE and significantly improved accessibility.

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