For more detail, please download one or other of the following (all downloads on my site are free): Full CV 2010 (105) Short SV 2010 (73) or bionotes 2010 (75)
I lead highly interactive workshops (and keynotes) on assessment, learning and teaching in higher and further education. I publish widely on such things, and various details of my work can be found on this website, including several downloads containing extracts from my recent books. My passion is about ‘making learning happen’, in an approachable way, without recourse to jargon, acronyms or elitism. People say I have the knack of making complex things understandable!
I started as a scientist, but gradually became an educational developer. I completely failed to take early retirement in 1995, and have been even busier ever since. I now spend most of my time running workshops for teaching staff in universities and colleges across the UK and beyond.
My work was recognised in 2007 by the Higher Education Academy awarding me a National Teaching Fellowship, and the status of ‘Senior Fellow’ of the Academy.
I am known for using lots of post-its in various colours for brainstorming and prioritisation group exercises at my workshops, and even for getting diners doing things with post-its at the odd after-dinner speech! I am also known for bringing humour into presentations and keynotes – but always with the purpose of highlighting important points here and there.
Home is Newcastle upon Tyne, when not on trains or planes to everywhere else.
My other passion is classical music, (see the ‘Classical Music’ page of this website) and I am an accomplished performer on the CD player and iPod.
My Webmaster
For those who ask me about how this site has been set up and maintained, my Webmaster is Ed Phillips, who was great at setting up my site in the first place, then teaching me how to update the site in a really straighforward way on an almost daily basis, and who has always been at the end of an email whenever advice was needed or problems experienced. If you’d like his email address, so he can help you do something similar, please simply email me – link at the left-hand-side of all pages.
