A city welcome for the new Vice Chancellor
Winter 2010 issue (pdf) - York St John University
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NEWS<br />
York St John Teaching Fellowship scheme<br />
The purpose of <strong>the</strong> Teaching Fellowship scheme is to reward and<br />
recognise <strong>the</strong> work of individual staff members <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir contribution to <strong>the</strong><br />
enhancement of teaching and/or supporting student learning and <strong>for</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong>ir contribution to meeting <strong>the</strong> learning and teaching goals of <strong>the</strong><br />
faculty/department and University.<br />
Applications are invited from<br />
staff who feel <strong>the</strong>y meet <strong>the</strong><br />
criteria <strong>for</strong> a teaching fellowship.<br />
Teaching Fellows are expected<br />
to play a central role in <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
faculty/department in<br />
on-going learning and teaching<br />
enhancement and innovation<br />
work.<br />
Please go to www.yorksj.ac.uk/<br />
teachingfellowships to download<br />
an application <strong>for</strong>m. The next<br />
deadline is 10 January 2011.<br />
New Teaching Fellows<br />
introduce <strong>the</strong>mselves<br />
Amanda Smith, British Sign<br />
Language (BSL) Lecturer<br />
I was born deaf. I first learned sign<br />
language when I was 13 and it is my first<br />
language with English being my second.<br />
I have two grown-up children who are<br />
both hearing. At <strong>the</strong> age of 16, I went to<br />
Huddersfield College to learn office work<br />
and I was also thinking of becoming a<br />
teacher. The staff at <strong>the</strong> college told me<br />
that I could not be a teacher because I was<br />
deaf!<br />
When I left college I worked <strong>for</strong> different<br />
companies in <strong>the</strong> office, carrying out all<br />
normal office duties apart from answering<br />
<strong>the</strong> telephone. I always wanted to be a<br />
teacher and I finally went to Wakefield<br />
College in 1999 and gained a City & Guilds<br />
7307 <strong>for</strong> Education Teachers Stage I and<br />
II. I was so happy that I could finally teach;<br />
since <strong>the</strong>n I have worked at many different<br />
colleges and schools, teaching BSL level 1<br />
and 2. I have also been involved with lots<br />
of training on how to teach BSL. Since I<br />
got <strong>the</strong> job at York St John in 2004-05, <strong>the</strong><br />
classes have grown considerably.<br />
I have recently completed <strong>the</strong> Postgraduate<br />
Certificate in Academic Practice. I wanted<br />
to do more and after more research, I<br />
finally became a Teaching Fellow. I was<br />
so happy and my family are so proud of<br />
me and my achievements, particularly<br />
considering my deafness. I am continuing<br />
to do more work and so keep your eye<br />
out in <strong>the</strong> future as I am planning more<br />
workshops to raise deaf awareness <strong>for</strong> staff<br />
and students. If you see me around <strong>the</strong><br />
University, come up and say hello!<br />
(English translation of this article assisted).<br />
Dr Takamitsu Jimura, Lecturer in<br />
Business Management (Tourism)<br />
I have a background in tourism and<br />
cultural heritage management and joined<br />
York St John in August 2008. Be<strong>for</strong>e that I<br />
worked as a visiting lecturer in tourism at<br />
<strong>the</strong> University of Greenwich. My research<br />
interests include cultural and heritage<br />
tourism management, tourism and local<br />
communities, tourism at cultural World<br />
Heritage Sites, and <strong>the</strong> management and<br />
conservation of cultural World Heritage<br />
Sites. My current teaching is related to<br />
tourism studies, marketing, research<br />
methods and business statistics. I was<br />
awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in<br />
Academic Practice from <strong>the</strong> University<br />
in 2010 and am a Fellow of <strong>the</strong> Higher<br />
Education Academy. I also work as <strong>the</strong><br />
international students’ tutor <strong>for</strong> Business<br />
Management and IT programmes.<br />
Susan Orr<br />
celebrates<br />
her National<br />
Teaching<br />
Fellowship<br />
Professor Susan Orr, Deputy<br />
Dean of <strong>the</strong> Faculty of Arts,<br />
and Jill Armstrong, Director<br />
of Learning Development,<br />
attended an event in London<br />
on 29 September held to<br />
congratulate those who were<br />
awarded National Teaching<br />
Fellowships from <strong>the</strong> Higher<br />
Education Academy. Professor<br />
Orr was awarded a National<br />
Teaching Fellowship in June <strong>for</strong><br />
her contribution to <strong>the</strong> student<br />
learning experience.<br />
Professor Susan Orr (right) and Jill Armstrong<br />
at <strong>the</strong> celebration event.<br />
The <strong>Vice</strong> <strong>Chancellor</strong> celebrates <strong>the</strong><br />
RTS Student Award triumph with a group of<br />
winning Film & TV staff and students.<br />
RTS Awards<br />
Film & Television students<br />
from York St John scooped<br />
two awards at <strong>the</strong> Yorkshire<br />
Royal Television Society<br />
(RTS) Student Awards, taking<br />
<strong>the</strong> top spot in two major<br />
categories at an awards<br />
ceremony held at York’s Reel<br />
Cinema on 9 November.<br />
KC Suri, Chairman of Reel Cinemas UK,<br />
presented <strong>the</strong> fiction award to a team<br />
of third-year students led by Edward<br />
Cooper and Rheya Brigden <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir<br />
film entitled The Sword, a dramatic film<br />
about thwarted ambition. Acclaimed<br />
documentary maker Paul Berriff<br />
presented <strong>the</strong> best factual film award<br />
to a team of second-year students led<br />
by Thomas Hewett and Joe Burrows <strong>for</strong><br />
Through <strong>the</strong> Peephole, a documentary<br />
about <strong>the</strong> world of burlesque.<br />
Robin Small, Senior Lecturer in Film &<br />
TV Production, said, “It’s a fantastic<br />
honour to win two top awards and a real<br />
endorsement of <strong>the</strong> quality and strength<br />
of <strong>the</strong> Film & Television courses. Staff<br />
and students are thrilled about this.”<br />
The two winning films will now be<br />
entered to compete at <strong>the</strong> national RTS<br />
Student Awards held in London in<br />
May 2011.<br />
Nigerian<br />
delegation on<br />
campus<br />
The Faculty of Education<br />
& Theology <strong>welcome</strong>d a<br />
party of Nigerian academics<br />
from <strong>the</strong> Federal College of<br />
Education in Kontagora, led<br />
by <strong>the</strong>ir Provost Dr Nathaniel<br />
Odediran, in November.<br />
The party attended master classes<br />
by senior staff at York St John and<br />
received details on pedagogy in Higher<br />
Education from Anita Backhouse, Dr<br />
Mike Calvert and o<strong>the</strong>rs. The visit was<br />
organised by Katie Simpson, HEIF Coordinator<br />
<strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> Faculty. The visit may<br />
pave <strong>the</strong> way towards academic visits<br />
in both directions and lead to ano<strong>the</strong>r<br />
Postgraduate Certificate in Academic<br />
Practice (PCAP) programme in Africa.<br />
Mike Calvert is contracted to undertake<br />
a range of staff development work<br />
in Kenyan universities from January<br />
onwards – at Strathmore Business<br />
School, Africa Nazarene University and<br />
United States International University –<br />
which takes <strong>for</strong>ward <strong>the</strong> work of PCAP in<br />
those leading universities.<br />
(left to right) Aisha Y Bukar,<br />
Katie Simpson, Dr Nathaniel Odediran,<br />
<strong>the</strong> <strong>Vice</strong> <strong>Chancellor</strong>, Dr Muhammed Mann<br />
Shaaba, Anita Backhouse, Sabatu Tanko<br />
and Dr Mike Calvert.<br />
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