In the run up to Future Facing Learning: The Education Revolution Conference, we will be posting a series of blog posts to share information about our panellists. In this blog, we will be sharing the profile of the panel convenor and spotlight presenters for the ‘Reimagining Learning Environments’ theme – Dr Sophie Nicholls, Laura Pacey and Charlie Tate.
Dr Sophie Nicholls
Sophie is a bestselling novelist, poet and writer with over twenty years’ experience of teaching writing. Since 2000, Sophie has led research in creative writing as a creative-critical academic discipline and in the emerging field of writing and wellbeing. She has designed and facilitated creative writing courses and workshops for a range of organisations and institutions and has a particular interest in building equitable online learning communities. Sophie is an Associate Professor at Teesside University where she has helped to lead strategic change in online learning and teaching. She is a Principal Fellow of Advance HE.
Laura Pacey
Laura Pacey is McGraw Hill’s Product Director for UK Higher Education and Open University Press. With over a decade’s experience in academic publishing, she has built partnerships with authors and institutions across four continents. Her current focus is creating customer-led course materials to support digital transformation in Higher Education and champion the evolution of teaching and learning. Laura’s presentation is titled “Working towards an Inclusive Curriculum” and explores how can education technology support an inclusive curriculum? She discusses the power of personalised learning journeys and why disrupting Higher Education takes a village!
Charlie Tate
Charlie is MA Design course leader at MIMA School of Art and Creative Industries at Teesside University and produces work across a broad range of interdisciplinary contexts exploring social, critical and speculative outcomes. As a designer and educator he champions collaborative studio practices exploring design philosophy, social impact and research-led ideas of critical and speculative making.
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