Team
Professor Norman Jackson
Director of SCEPTrE
Internal telephone ext 2050
Email norman.jackson@surrey.ac.uk
It’s a privilege to work with such a talented and experienced group of people and I am inspired by the rich possibilities that the idea of SCEPTrE holds
Norman is an experienced educational developer and scholar with particular interests in helping students develop their creativity and learn through experience.
Russ Law
Fellowship Co-ordinator
Internal telephone ext 4903
Email r.law@surrey.ac.uk
Russ is responsible for supporting our community of Fellows. He brings to this role a wealth of experience as professional coach and mentor.
Clare Dowding
Centre Manager & Employer Liaison
Internal telephone ext 4911
Email c.dowding@surrey.ac.uk
Clare is responsible for placement management and employer liaison within SCEPTrE. She supports the departmental teams that prepare students for placement year through staff development programmes, employer liaison and networking opportunities. She also manages SCEPTrE spaces, administration and budgets.
Susan Wood
Centre Administrator SCEPTrE
Telephone 01483 684920 / ext 4920
Email s.wood@surrey.ac.uk
Contact Susan in 04AC01 with any enquiries or to confirm your attendance at a SCEPTrE event. She can also help you to book SCEPTrE rooms, equipment etc. Susan also keeps the website up to date and generally creates a welcoming atmosphere for the Centre.
Charlotte Rickett
Surrey Award & Life-wide Learning Developer
Internal telephone ext 4903
Email c.rickett@surrey.ac.uk
Charlie brings artistic flair to the team. She works facilitatively with young people, students and adults.
Our Student Members
Claire Fellows
Networker & Events Manager
Claire is a third year psychology student.
Internal telephone ext 4902
Email c.fellows@surrey.ac.uk
Chris Stnage
CoLab Consultant
George Prassinos
Technical Expert on SCEPTrE Team
George is a part-time doctoral student in the Surrey Space Centre. He is a wizz with technology and has been responsible for most of our technological innovations.
Jake Pyne
Technology Technican
Jake is a year 3 Electronic Engineering student. He will be working with us on various SCEPTrE projects which involve the use of technology.
Internal telephone: ext 4902
Email jp00010@surrey.ac.uk
Professor Michael Eraut
Research Consultant
Michael is the UK’s leading researcher into how professionals learn in work place settings. His pioneering research has found that most learning occurs informally during normal working processes and that there is considerable scope for recognising and enhancing such learning. His books include the highly acclaimed Developing Professional Knowledge and Competence. He has just completed an ESRC-funded five year study of how professionals learn in the early part of their careers. During 2008 he is facilitating a series of Faculty-based conversations with interested tutors involved in professional training with the objective of seeing how his research findings can be used to improve the professional training experiences of our students.
CoLab Team
CoLab is a value-adding, not for profit student organisation providing services to students, the university, business and the local community. It is a place where University of Surrey students can develop their personal and professional skills and qualities and SCEPTrE employs (part-time) between 8-12 students each year.
Our External Consultant Team Members
Professor Michael Eraut: Research Consultant
Michael is the UK’s leading researcher into how professionals learn in work place settings. He is helping us transfer and adapt this knowledge to help us improve student learning in the placement environment.
Professor Ron Barnett: Research Consultant
Ron is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the Institute of Education in London and a leading authority on the conceptual understanding of the university. His many books include Engaging the Curriculum in Higher Education (with Kelly Coate, 2005). This work has influenced SCEPTrE’s thinking along with his book A will to Learn: being a student in an age of uncertainty (2007). Ron is working with SCEPTrE to try to understand what motivates students to engage in life-wide learning.
Professor John Cowan: Educational Advisor
Life-wide Learning
John’s passion for and professional interest in student-centred learning now spans over 40 years. During that time he has placed an ever increasing emphasis on preparing students to exercise stewardship over their life-wide development while at University, and in lifelong learning thereafter. John is contributing his lifetime wisdom to the SCEPTrE life-wide learning project.
Dr Colin Beard: Educational Advisor Experiential Learning
Is a National Teaching Fellow and an expert practitioner in designing and facilitating experiential learning, completing a doctorate and co-authoring a key text in the field ‘Beard, C. and Wilson, J. (2006) Experiential Learning: A Best Practice Handbook for Educators and Trainers, (2nd Ed.) (London, Kogan Page)’. He is working with SCEPTrE to help develop curriculum designs that are more experience-based.
Fred Buining
Based in the Netherlands, Fred’s international consultancy Zooangzi helps organizations to change by discovering and harnessing their creative potential. His clients include both multinationals and small enterprises. He is working with SCEPTrE to develop thinking and practices aimed at enhancing students’ creative thinking.
Professor Lewis Elton
Lewis is SCEPTrE’s Distinguished Visiting Scholar. He is Professor Emeritus of Higher Education, University of Surrey, where he was Professor of Physics (1964 – 70) and Professor of Higher Education (1970 – 88). Lewis is one of the great contributors to the wicked problem of how we educate our students in higher education. His lifetime of work, scholarship and contributions to the development of learning in HE is recognized in a SCEPTrE’s first Life-Time Achievement Award.
Artists in Residence
Our artists in residence add creative and artistic vitality to our work. They help us engage colleagues in new and exciting ways and help us communicate our work more imaginatively and creatively.
Kai Jansen (Musician) http://learningtobeprofessional.pbworks.com/Kai-Jansen
Julian Burton (Artist) http://learningtobeprofessional.pbworks.com/Julian-Burton
Patrick Sanders (Artist)