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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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