- 2024 Advance HE EnvisionEd group ‘Belonging, Mattering and Becoming: Empowering Education through Connection’, presentation on principled learning spaces
- 2022 JISC Annual Conference, workshop: Nurturing the tiniest building block of learning communities: hybrid teaching as friend or foe
- 2021 ALDinHE Annual Conference, paper: Still Learning Together in Lockdown
- 2020 Foundation Year Network Annual Conference, paper: Inclusive learning in a newly launched Foundation Year
- 2019 JISC CAN Annual Conference, paper: 'The Evolving Landscape of Staff-Student Partnership'
- 2018 JISC CAN Annual Conference, paper: 'Why, and how, I let my students take control'
- 2017 Higher Education Academy Annual Conference, paper: 'The pedagogical benefits of preparing our students for the professional world'
- 2017 JISC Change Agents Network Annual conference, Exeter, paper: 'How, and why, I let my students take control'
- 2017 TSEP (Student Engagement Partnership) conference, London, workshop: 'Student engagement in curriculum design'
- 2016 RAISE (Researching, Advancing and Inspiring Student Engagement) conference in Loughborough, paper: 'Engaging students in assessment criteria and learning outcomes'
- 2016 UKAT (United Kingdom Advising and Tutoring) conference, Southampton, paper: 'The strategic and relational differences between a personal tutor and placement mentoring'
Cindy Becker
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Professor
I am the Director of the English Literature and English Language Foundation Year and I teach in the Department of English Literature.
Areas of interest
I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have been awarded a ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Teaching Fellowship. I am a holder of an Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award, and I have also been awarded an Advance HE National Teaching Fellowship.
I am an enthusiastic member of several University Communities of Practice/Interest: University Teaching Fellows, Technology Enhanced Learning, Inclusion and Diversity and Student Engagement Champions.
I am a university Blackboard Ultra champion and also a YuJa learning capture champion.
Teaching
I am module convenor of Foundation modules ‘Study for Success’ and ‘Film Narrative’ and at Part 3 I convene the ‘Shakespeare on Film’ module.Awards and honours
- 2024: ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award and Excellence in Academic Tutoring Award nominee
- 2023: Advance HE National Teaching Fellow
- 2023: ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Awards nominee
- 2022: ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Students' Union Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning Award nominee
- 2021: University nominee for Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship
- 2017: ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Students' Union Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning Award nominee
- 2017: University nominee for Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship
- 2016: Collaborative Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning, ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø
- 2015: University nominee for Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship
- 2013: Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- 2013: THE Teaching Innovator of the Year award university nominee
- 2010-2015: ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Students' Union Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning award nominee on three occasions
- 2009: ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø University Teaching Fellowship
- 2009: Centre for Career Management Skills Fellowship
- 2007: Individual award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning Award, ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø
- 2007: Centre for Career Management Skills Fellowship
Selected publications
- Editor in Chief of two modules on the SAGE Student Success platform, a global resource designed to support students in their learning journeys
- Acing Online Assessment
- Write a Brilliant CV
- Give Great Presentations
- Seven Steps to a Successful Career
- Writing Successful Reports and Dissertations
- 14 Days to Exam Success
- Teaching in Higher Education
Recent external conference papers and workshops