• Overall leadership and management of the Academic Support Office, including staff development, recruitment, resource planning and budgetary control.
• Project-managing and contributing to the development of the Learning and Teaching Strategy.
• Professional networking within and outside the University to ensure effective ‘horizon scanning’ of emerging national developments in quality assurance and enhancement, analysing their implications, ensuring that the University contributes views as appropriate, and thereby also promoting the University in the sector.

 
 
Richard Gill
Assistant Registrar and QA
Team Leader
richard.j.gill
ext 3849
HG08, Heslington Hall

• Leading and managing the QA team, ensuring effective integration with other areas of the learning and teaching agenda
• Secretary to the University Teaching Committee, project-managing its portfolio of work
• Professional networking within and outside the University
• Oversight of teaching quality aspects of collaborative provision with other institutions
• Contributing to policy review and development through administrative leadership and advice
• Support for working groups and periodic review panels
• Advising departments on academic policies and on programme development and approval

• QA contact for Arts and Humanities departments:
  • Advising departments on:
    • Annual Programme Review
    • Programme approval, modification and withdrawal
  • Periodic Review support
• National Student Survey and other survey support
• Contributing to policy review and development

Jo Fox
Quality Support Officer
(part-time)
aso-socsci@york.ac.uk
ext 4310
HG08, Heslington Hall

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 9am - 5pm

• QA contact for Social Science departments (jobshare with Juliet James):
  • Advising departments on
    • Annual Programme Review
    • Programme approval, modification and withdrawal
  • Periodic Review support
• National Student Survey and other survey support
• Contributing to policy review and development

Juliet James
Quality Support Officer
(part-time)
aso-socsci@york.ac.uk
ext 4310
HG08, Heslington Hall

Monday and Tuesday
9am – 5pm; Wednesday 9am - 1pm

• QA contact for Social Science departments (jobshare with Jo Fox):
  • Advising departments on
    • Annual Programme Review
    • Programme approval, modification and withdrawal
  • Periodic Review support
• Contributing to policy review and development

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Liz Stead
Quality Support Officer
liz.stead
ext 3632
HG08, Heslington Hall

• QA contact for Science departments:
  • Advising departments on
    • Annual Programme Review
    • Programme approval, modification and withdrawal
  • Periodic Review support
• Contributing to policy review and development
• Secretary for Coordinating Group for Supplementary Programmes
• Survey support

Cecilia Lowe
Project Leader: Learning Enhancement
cecilia.lowe
ext 1142
Room LFA/1.32, Harry Fairhurst Building

• Leading and managing the LE team, ensuring effective integration with other areas of the learning and teaching agenda
• Working directly with departments on:
  • learning enhancement initiatives
  • assessment, standards, marking and feedback issues
  • programme and module development
• Supporting the Learning and Teaching Forum’s activities and supporting learning and teaching projects

Ant Edwards
Project Officer: Maths Skills
ant.edwards
ext 4936

Room LFA/1.32, Harry Fairhurst Building

• Managing the University's Maths Skills Centre:
  • Providing one-to-one and appointment based maths support
  • Delivery of workshops
• Working directly with departments on maths support provision and suitable resources
• Data collection and evaluation of students' use of support mechanisms
• Design and creation of online resources for Maths learning

Chris Mellor
Statistics Tutor
chris.mellor
ext  4934

Room LFA/1.32, Harry Fairhurst Building

•  Tutoring statistics in the University's Maths Skills Centre:
  • Providing one-to-one and appointment based stats support
  • Design and delivery of statistics workshops

Tamlyn Ryan
Project Officer, Academic Skills
tamlyn.ryan
ext 1134
Room LFA/1.32, Harry Fairhurst Building

• Working with staff and students on learning enhancement related to
  
  • widening participation initiatives
  • transition into HE and initial academic skills development
  • undergraduate level programmes
  • postgraduates engaged in academic skills support

Adrian Lee
Project Officer: Academic Integrity
adrian.lee
ext 1135
Room LFA/1.32, Harry Fairhurst Building

• Co-ordinating and working with departments on academic integrity
• Producing academic integrity resources and running workshops
• Co-ordinating Academic Integrity Weeks with YUSU and GSA
• Development of the Academic Integrity tutorial
• Review of the Academic Misconduct policy
• Management of the Turnitin project, where students use the software formatively to develop their academic writing

Madeleine Morgan
Project Officer: Academic Skills
madeleine.morgan
ext 4935
Room LFA/1.32, Harry Fairhurst Building

• Working with staff and students on learning enhancement areas including
  • supporting international student transition
  • transition into postgraduate taught programmes
  • postgraduate taught level skills development issues
  • academic writing support development

Sharon Meredith
(until July 2013)
Learning and Teaching
Forum Administrator
(part-time)
sharon.meredith
ext 2018
HG08, Heslington Hall

Monday and Tuesday 9am-5pm
Wednesday 9am-12.30pm

• Secretary to the Learning and Teaching Forum committee
• Annual Learning and Teaching Conference
• Forum workshops
• Forum magazine
• Learning and teaching project funding
• Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Awards
• National Teaching Fellowship Scheme nominations

Alice Wakely
(on secondment in Research Office until July 2013)
Learning and Teaching
Forum Administrator
(part-time)
alice.wakely
ext 2018
HG08, Heslington Hall

Monday and Tuesday 8.15am-5pm
Wednesday 9am-2.00pm

• Secretary to the Learning and Teaching Forum committee
• Annual Learning and Teaching Conference
• Forum workshops
• Forum magazine
• Learning and teaching project funding
• Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Awards
• National Teaching Fellowship Scheme nominations

Richard Walker
E-Learning Development Team Manager & VLE Service Group Leader
richard.walker
ext 1138
Room LFA/1.31, Harry Fairhurst Building

• Leading and managing the ELD team, ensuring effective integration with other areas of the learning and teaching agenda
• Managing the VLE Service
  • providing guidance to departments on VLE guidelines and policy
  • providing advice to staff on e-learning funding provision
  • leading on e-assessment trials

David Barrett
VLE Application Manager
david.barrett
ext 1140
Room LFA/1.32, Harry Fairhurst Building

• Creating VLE module sites
• Advice on using the VLE
• VLE troubleshooting
• VLE system administration

Wayne Britcliffe
Digital Learning Resources Manager
wayne.britcliffe
ext 1141
Room LFA/1.32, Harry Fairhurst Building

• Assistance and advice on:
  • planning content development and storyboarding
  • structuring modules and deploying content within Yorkshare
  • the Yorkshare toolset
  • structuring and managing areas of the content repository
  • copyright and digital rights issues

Simon Davis
E-Learning Adviser
simon.davis
ext 1143
Room LFA/1.32, Harry Fairhurst Building

• Departmental liaison for VLE strategic development and support
• VLE / e-learning training and support

Blayn Parkinson
E-Learning Training and Support Assistant
blayn.parkinson
ext 1131
Room LFA/1.32, Harry Fairhurst Building

• Training materials
• VLE end-user support to staff and students

Janet Barton
Office Manager
(part-time)
janet.barton
ext 2155
HG08, Heslington Hall

Tuesday – Friday
8.30am – 5pm

• PA to Nigel Dandy
• Administrative support for Learning Enhancement Team 
• Web page maintenance
• ASO office finances

 

David Clarke
Administrative Assistant
david.clarke
ext 3850
HG08, Heslington Hall

• Administrative support for Quality Assurance Team
• Administrative support for Teaching Committee
• Administrative support for VLE Team
• Maintenance of UTC web pages
• Managing submissions of APRs