We are delighted to invite members to this GuildHE Research lunchtime webinar - Diverse routes into teaching: postgraduate and early career researchers.

This lunchtime webinar for GuildHE Research members will be hosted on Microsoft Teams, examining the diverse ways that both postgraduate and early career researchers can gain teaching experience.

We will be joined by:

  • Susan Birch, PhD Student, University of Winchester and PGR Peer Support Community Coordinator, GuildHE Research
  • Dr Jennifer Crowdy, South East Research Officer, The British Academy, and 
    Senior Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Developer, University of Winchester

Susan Birch will discuss how undertaking voluntary teaching helped her gain a teaching position at University of Worcester. Dr Jenny Crowdy will discuss her unusual starting point into teaching through an extra-curricular module, her experience with teaching through content creation, and other alternative ways within academia.

If you want to find out more teaching options or are concerned about your teaching experience and are unsure of what you could do, then this talk is for you!

 

About the speakers

Susan Birch is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Worcester in the History, Politics and Sociology department. She has taught on modules examining women’s education, eugenics, the National Health Service and medical education. She is a Peer Support Coordinator for GuildHE where she helps manage monthly student meetings and a Postgraduate Representative (a role she shares with Jenny) for the History of Education Society.  Her PhD at University of Winchester explores the impact of women’s work at the Family Planning Association (an organisation that provided family planning and sex education) in Birmingham and Winchester from1945 and 1955.

Dr Jennifer Crowdy is a South East Research Officer for the British Academy and a Senior Technology Enhanced Learning Developer at University of Winchester. Jenny has always been passionate about digital education and has a previous career in teaching and childcare. She also has a background in digital entrepreneurship, having previously ran her own, successful edutaintment broadcasting channel on the platform Twitch. Her PhD was on rethinking creativity in technology education through the philosophy of the encounter. Jenny currently co-leads the University of Winchester's CIRCLE AI Research Cluster, and is a Convenor for the British Educational Research Association's Digital Education Special Interest Group.

Available to representatives from GuildHE Research member institutions only. To know more about GuildHE membership, please email [email protected].