Dr Jane Jones wins excellence award for postgraduate supervision

Dr Jane Jones, Senior Lecturer in Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) Education and Head of MFL Teacher Education  at the School of Education, Communication & Society, has been awarded a Supervisory Excellence Award by the King’s College London Graduate School.

The university-wide scheme recognises the important role that supervisors play in the success of their postgraduate research students, and to reward excellence in supervisory practice. Nominations for the award were made by students and judged by the Graduate School. “Dr Jones stood out in an exceptionally strong field. All the submissions were genuinely inspiring,” said Dr Nigel Eady, Administrative Director of the Graduate School.

Dr Jones taught foreign languages as a secondary schoolteacher for 16 years before joining King’s College London, where she is now Head of MFL Teacher Education (overall with 42 years lecturing at KCL) and has participated in numerous national and international projects to provide platforms for teachers and school leaders to share their knowledge and practices of learning, teaching, assessment and leadership

“I am thrilled to win this award as I have long been an advocate of very committed and personalised postgraduate supervision. This stems from my background as a schoolteacher and although higher education is about independent learning, postgraduates still need support. No-one leaves a supervision without knowing what to do next,” Dr Jones said.

The award will be publicly presented by the Principal of King’s College at a degree ceremony later this year. Dr Jones will also be invited to assist in the delivery of professional development workshops for new supervisors, and extracts from statements in support of her award may be included in future guides to best practice supervision.