Senior Lecturer
School of Teacher Education
Course Director BA (Hons) Primary Education Part-time
I am a senior lecturer teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate initial teacher education courses with a keen interest in school-based and part-time routes. My subject specialisms are Primary English and Art and Design.
I joined CCCU in 2012 from a primary school in Canterbury where I had been a class teacher in KS1 and KS2, and the subject leader for literacy.
I have recently completed a PhD investigating primary school teachers and children’s perceptions of the value of teacher-directed drawing(s) for learning in children’s written work across the curriculum. Prior to training to teach, I had worked for the BBC for 20 years and the experience of making meaning though multimodal means informs my teaching and my research. I am currently also involved in research around the positive use of AI with students.
From 2016 to 2018 I was the English lead for the Teacher Education in Palestine (TEIP) project involving CCCU and Palestinian universities. This included regular study visits to work with our colleagues in the West Bank and Gaza. The project was funded by the World Bank and was called 'a game changer' in their final report. It won the Times Higher Education International Impact Award 2018. I have also worked with Kent Local Education Authority providing workshops for teachers.