Working with Schools
Learning and Teaching Co-ordinators
The Learning Teaching Coordinators (LTC) play an important role in enhancing the quality of learning and teaching across the College. They bring knowledge of specific discipline-related issues to the fore and assist in measures to meet particular needs. They work closely with the Institute's School Liaison Officers to develop and deliver bespoke activities.
Dr Federico Bonaddio
School of Arts and Humanities
Federico joined the Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies in 1998. Federico obtained a BA degree in French and Spanish from Bristol University in 1986. He went on to complete an MA in Spanish at Leeds University the subsequent year and was awarded a PhD by the same institution in 1992. He wrote his PhD thesis on the poetry of Federico García Lorca, focusing on the poet’s self-conscious production and relating his work to Modernist preoccupations and aesthetic modes. His first teaching position was at Glasgow University in 1991 and he held positions at Aberdeen University and Hull University after that.
In addition to being the Learning & Teaching Co-ordinator for the School of Arts & Humanities, Federico is also the Chair of its Learning & Teaching Committee. Contact
federico.bonaddio@kcl.ac.uk
Dr Stuart Knight
Biomedical Sciences
Stuart has been at King’s since 2000 and is a Senior Lecturer in the Biochemistry Department. He became the School of Biomedical Science’s Learning & Teaching Co-ordinator in 2006. He teaches a range of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology related topics to both Science and Medical Students.
A lot of his teaching is laboratory based and he is keen to make this experience as close to the research environment as possible. He is always happy to discuss any teaching-related developments and give advice on the “paperwork” for new modules, Peer Support and possible College Teaching Fund bids.
Dr Barry Quinn
Dental Institute
Barry is Director of St Thomas' Dental Centre of KCL Dental Institute, as Learning and Teaching Co-ordinator the aim is to gather and disseminate good educational practice from across the nine schools of KCL. The Dental Institute holds an institute wide “Education Day” every January which all of the teaching staff are invited to partake. In July the Restorative and Primary Dental Care departments share a teacher’s day focusing on best practice and departmental issues. The dental institute has one of the highest percentage of teaching staff from across KCL having either gained or presently participating in KLI teachers’ educational development courses such PGCAP or at Master’s degree level.
Barry is particularly interested in supporting bids to enhance learning and teaching locally with the College Teaching Fund, facilitating peer support and promoting the nominations for the Teacher Excellence Awards.
Barry is editor of the Dental Institute’s Profile publication and referee for the American Dental Education Association Journal of Dental Education.
Pedagogical research interests include interdisciplinary team learning and technology enhanced learning. Barry is one of the principal investigators for the hapTEL project (Haptic Technology Enhanced Learning) a £1.5 million 4-year project funded jointly by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) involving King’s, Reading and Birmingham City Universities. HapTEL won the best medical and dental educational innovation award at the 2011 medical Futures awards.
Institute of Psychiatry
The Learning Teaching Co-ordinator for the Institute of Psychiatry will be announced in the near future.
Perry Keller
School of Law
Perry's responsibilities, as Learning and Teaching Coordinator, include: organising the induction programme for new full-time and visiting academic staff; acting as an information point, for all academic staff of the School, on the availability of CPD courses etc.; organising Peer Support; promoting the nomination of staff for the Teaching Excellence Award; drafting the School Learning and Teaching Strategy; coordinating bids for the annual College Teaching Fund awards; and, liaising with the King's Learning Institute on subject-specific workshops, etc.
Perry is happy to be contacted by any member of staff for information on these or other aspects of learning and teaching.
Perry is a senior lecturer for the Media Law module, on the undergarduate Law programme. Contact:
perry.keller@kcl.ac.uk
Dr Helen Graham
School of Medicine
Helen has been School of Medicine Learning & Teaching Co-ordinator (LTC) since the scheme was launched in 2003. She is senior lecturer in the Division of Medical Education, School Head of Quality, and teaches and trains at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. As a member of the College LTC forum, she liaises with the College and Medical School on educational issues, policies and strategies, and reports regularly to the Medical Education Committee and Executive. She is keen to focus on enhancing the quality of learning and teaching, and is happy to be contacted by staff for advice on a range of educational issues, including the annual educational bids for the College Teaching Fund, the College peer support scheme, and professional development opportunities for teaching and learning. She chairs the School Quality Group, and has experience of preparations and participation in external reviews by the GMC and the QAA.
Contact
helen.graham@kcl.ac.uk
Dr Mike Clode
School of Natural & Mathematical Sciences
Mike joined the College in 1989 and was appointed Lecturer in Metallurgy in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has a BSc(Eng) in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Mechanical Metallurgy. Mike is also a Fellow of IoM3.
During his time at King’s Mike has held many roles at Departmental, School and College level. He was responsible for the initial ‘Training and Supervision Policy for PGR Students’ for the School in 1992, he represented the College in student recruitment in SE Asia for 13 years, and was appointed Senior Tutor in 2000. He was awarded KCLSU Laurels in 2005 for championing the students’ cause.
Mike was appointed Head of the Division of Engineering on the 1st January 2010, and is President of the KCLEA and Chairman of the KCLS&SC.
Mike became KLI Learning Teaching Co-ordinator for the School Natural & Mathematical Sciences in September 2011.
Dr Ann Wilkinson
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Ann was appointed Learning and Teaching Co-ordinator in 2003 and has been Lecturer in Learning Technology in the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery since 2000. Ann is deputy chair of School Teaching and Learning Committee and a member of School Education Committee and at the committee level provides links between College and School priorities. This includes: co-ordinating the School Learning and Teaching Strategy and peer observation; supporting staff in teaching enhancement activity, especially related to e-learning and; advising staff bidding for teaching development funds.
Ann is a social scientist who has a professional background in probation and social work. Ann is interested in the development of information and communication technology (ICT) and information literacy skills of students with diverse cultures and experience with particular reference to their development as health and social care professionals. Her main teaching areas are research methods, academic practice and academic literacy.
Dr Ursula Wingate
School of Social Sciences and Public Policy
Ursula Wingate is Learning & Teaching Coordinator for the School of Social Sciences and Public Policy. She is happy to advise SSPP staff members on all issues concerned with learning and teaching. In addition, she organises peer observation and support, and assists with the development of proposals for the College Teaching Fund.
Ursula is a member of the Language and Literacy Group in the Department of Education & Professional Studies, and the Forum for Academic Language and Literacy (FALL). Her main research interests relate to students’ transition from school to university, the development of academic writing, and e-learning. She is also interested in learner autonomy in language learning, and learner lexicography.
In two projects funded by the College Teaching Fund, Ursula has developed online modules for the development of academic writing for several disciplines, as well as a model of embedded writing instruction. She has also investigated the impact of academic writing interventions for students in distance education in a research project funded by the Centre of Distance Education, University of London. Contact
ursula.wingate@kcl.ac.uk