Dr Holly Smith

  • Qualifications and position:
    • BSc
      PhD
      PGCTLHE
    • Lecturer in Higher Education
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Policy and Society
  • Department:
  • Centre:
  • Summary:
    • My PhD in Education explored teacher thinking using a variety of research methods including repertory grid techniques. I subsequently held posts as a Lecturer in Psychology in UK universities teaching social psychology, gender, history of psychology, social constructivism, and qualitative and quantitative research methods.

      Changing my focus to Higher Education practice itself, I worked on professional development programmes for academic staff from 1998, initially at Liverpool John Moores University, and The Open University. I led the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PGCLTHE) at UCL 2002-2011 which developed an enquiry-based approach to professional development for academics, emphasising the research teaching relationship, disciplinarity, equality, diversity and educational values and the theorising of learning, teaching and assessment by participants.

      My current research interests in Higher Education include academic practice, the professional development of HE teachers, academic identity, HE policy and e-learning.

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  • Research Projects:
    • SEDA Research and Development Grant 2010 'Academic Identity: Does the Higher Education Teacher exist?'
  • Professional Activities:
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Hughes, J & Smith, H. (2011). OERs for academic development. Paper presented at the 16th Annual SEDA Conference Using Technology to Enhance Learning, 17-18 Nov, Aston.

      Smith, H. J. (2010). PGCerts – voluntary or compulsory? Paper presented at SCAP (Standing Conference on Academic Practice) 8-9 July, Warwick.

      Smith, H. J. (2010). Constructing the 'HE Teacher': A new identity for academics? Paper presented at Academic Identities for the 21st Century 16-18 June, University of Strathclyde.

 

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Publications

  • Smith, H. J. (2010) Flexible Learning for Lecturers; Exploring and showcasing Moodle. ELDG Report Online <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/staff/e-learning/funding/eldg/reports/#2009>
  • Smith, H. (2008) 'Spoonfeeding: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the mess', Teaching in Higher Education 13, 715-718.
  • Smith, H. (2004) 'Play with your food as long as you eat it', The Times Higher February 27 , p25.
  • Smith, H. J. (2004) 'The impact of staff development programmes and activities' In P. Kahn & D. Baume , Advancing Staff and Educational Development. London (Kogan Page).
  • Smith, H. J., Cooper, A. M. & Lancaster, B. L. (2002) 'Improving the quality of undergraduate peer assessment: A case study from psychology', Innovations in Education and Teaching International 39, 71-81.
  • Smith, H. J. & Oliver, M. (2002) 'University teachers' attitudes to the impact of innovations in Information and Communication Technology on their practice' In C.Rust (Ed) , Proceedings of the 2001 9th International Symposium Improving Student Learning: Improving Student Learning Using Learning Technologies. . Oxford: (OCSLD).
  • Smith, H. J. (2000) 'The reliability and validity of structural measures derived from repertory grids', The Journal of Constructivist Psychology 13, 221-230.
  • Smith, H. J. & Merry, R. (1995) 'What do primary teachers think about children learning to read? ', Primary English 11, 12-13.