Dr Dawne Irving-Bell
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8943-9559 Profile
Biography
Dawne Irving-Bell, PhD, is a Professor of Learning and Teaching.
With extensive experience of working in secondary, further and Higher Education settings as a teacher, Dawne is passionate about inspiring students, enabling them to achieve their full potential. Dawne’s experiences shape her values, and she believes that effective learning is cultivated from positive relationships with students, which starts with excellent teaching. With students at the heart of her practice she creates ‘conversational’ environments where mutual respect nurtures the spirit as well as the mind, engaging learning opportunities that help all students to reach their potential.
Dawne is dedicated to raising the profile of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and passionate about creating opportunities for others. She established The National Teaching Repository, an Open Education Resource (OER) with proven reach and impact across the global Higher Education community. A platform where colleagues can share interventions that lead to real improvements in teaching and learning in a way that secures recognition for their practice, making it citable, sharable, and discoverable.
Dawne is a member of The Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation at Lancaster University, and her research interests include the formation of learner identity, with a particular focus on STEM subject disciplines. SoTL, and pedagogical approaches to learning and teaching, including the use of technology to engage and enhance learning. She also enjoys lecturing on visual thinking and advocates for technology and design education, for which she received a National Award sponsored by The Royal Academy of Engineers from her Subject Association in recognition of her outstanding contribution to re-shaping Teacher Education and teaching and learning in the discipline.
Dawne is a member of the International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF), The Staff and Educational Development Association’s (SEDA) Conference and Events Committee, EuroSoTL’s Scientific Committee. She is Network Lead for the Advance HE Connect Social-Media for Learning Group and edits the Journal of Social-Media for Learning.
Following an invitation from the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning’s (ISSOTL) Dawne was appointed Co-Chair of the Recognition Committee, and selected from a field of International academic scholars she was appointed to lead ISSOTL’s International Teaching Fellows in the delivery of a global pedagogy and scholarship project.
At her institution Dawne leads on her University’s Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching in Higher Education Programme, and the PGCert in Teaching in Higher Education Developing Practice through Pedagogic Research Module. As an experienced External Examiner Dawne is accredited to deliver Advance HE’s Professional Development Course (PDC) for external examiners and in her current position chairs institutional validations and leads on university-wide strategies to enhance the student learning experience.
Dawne is a National Teaching Fellow (NTF), Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) and proud recipient of a Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE).
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8943-9559
Research Interests
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- The reality of STEM education, design and technology teachers’ perceptions: a phenomenographic study.
- The Courage to SoTL
- The CATE Collection: Together in Collaborative Educational Leadership
- Analysing Design and Technology as aneducational construct; an investigation intoits curriculum position and pedagogicalidentity.
- How technology makes us human: cultural historical roots for design and technology education
- Pedagogy and Scholarship and Impact: Expert Panel
- Shout about your SoTL! Invited Key Note, The University of Sussex: Dare to Transform Seminar
- An Invited Talk for Talking Higher Education: #TalkingHE A Podcast. Dr Dawne Irving-Bell and the National Teaching Repository
- An Invited Key Note at The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in conjunction with Northumbria University: Emergent Learner Identities
- An Invited Keynote for the University of Liverpool : The Centre for Innovation in Education, Active network Launch
- Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence
- Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence , The Design and Technology Association Excellence Award: Outstanding Teacher Education
- Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence , The Design and Technology Association Excellence Award: Outstanding Teacher Education , #LTHEchat Golden Tweeter Award
- Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence , The Design and Technology Association Excellence Award: Outstanding Teacher Education , #LTHEchat Golden Tweeter Award, Best in the North West: Outstanding Design and Technology Teacher Educator Award