National Teaching Fellowship Scheme - Higher Education Academy

National Teaching Fellows 2012
Dr Janet Hargreaves
Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching
University of Huddersfield
Dr Janet Hargreaves trained as a nursery nurse and registered adult nurse before working in the
National Health Service in ophthalmic and operating theatre settings. Clinical teaching with student
nurses followed, which was a springboard to a career in higher education now spanning 25 years.
Her current role involves leading learning and teaching, quality assurance and enhancement across
a wide variety of disciplines through developing initiatives such as interdisciplinary learning, service
user engagement and innovations in learning and teaching. In this role she fosters critical thinking and
analytical skills by being curious, creative and open to challenge. She aims to promote an innovative,
collegiate environment that is ‘the way we do things here’, rather than something unusual or
extraordinary. Fostering and promoting creativity are key strategies, supported by her involvement
with Open Art, a not for profit arts and health organisation.
Janet’s teaching is in health care ethics, reflective practice and research across a number of disciplines,
as well as supervision and examination of doctoral students. Her passion for professional education
and development to be informed by an understanding of ethics, led her to develop creative ways of
teaching this subject to make it relevant and accessible. She is proud of her work as a panellist for the
Nursing and Midwifery Council Competence and Conduct Committee, which informs this teaching
and supports her role.
She is an active researcher with interests in student engagement, inclusivity and links to practice. Janet
takes a collaborative approach, wherever possible working across disciplines and institutions and
involving students as paid collaborators, rather than solely as research participants. She also takes an
historical approach to exploring nurse education and is a founding member of the UK Association of
the History of Nursing.
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