PGCAP Team
Dr Duncan Jackson
PGCAP Programme Director, Professional and Organisational Development
E-mail: duncan.jackson@york.ac.uk Ext: 4843
Duncan is an archaeologist by background, specialising in the later prehistory of western England and Wales. However, after breaking briefly from academia to teach in the secondary sector, he returned to join the University of Sheffield as an Educational Development Adviser and became Programme Director for the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching as well as taking on responsibility for co-ordinating centrally-delivered professional development activity across the institution. Duncan joined the University of York as Programme Director for PGCAP and Senior Academic Staff Developer for Learning and Teaching in 2009.
Lesley Catt
PGCAP Programme Administrator and Secretary to the Board of Studies, Professional and Organisational Development
E-mail: lesley.catt@york.ac.uk Ext: 4844
Lesley is the Administrator for the PGCAP and Secretary to the Board of Studies for Academic Practice. Originally from a business background, she studied Archaeology at York and decided to stay on at the University. Lesley is in the PGCAP office ready to answer any queries you may have about the programme .
Dr Rob Aitken
PGCAP Supervisor, Senior Lecturer, Department of Politicshttp://www.york.ac.uk/depts/poli/staff/profiles/ra.htm
Rob Aitken is a social anthropologist who studied at the London School of Economics and University College London before receiving his doctorate from Leiden University. His doctoral research focussed on political culture, local identities and state formation in Mexico.
His current research focuses on the transformation and politicisation of culture and identities, in particular on the comparative study of processes of ethnicization in conflicts and post-conflict situations.
The Rev'd Dr David Efird
PGCAP Supervisor, Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
http://www.york.ac.uk/philosophy/about/staff/david-efird/
David has been a lecturer at the University since 2002. During that time, he has held a variety of administrative posts in the Department of Philosophy and the University's Standing Committee on Assessment.
He has also been involved in learning enhancement, having been awarded funding for a variety of projects and was one of the first recipients of a Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award. In addition to his departmental responsibilities, David is also Provost of Vanbrugh College. Outside of his work at the University, he is Assistant Curate at York Minster.
Paul Evans
NMC Supervisor, Department of Health Sciences
Paul brings to PGCAP a wealth of teaching and practice based experience in nursing, particularly around the area of Learning Disability. He is a registered nurse with the professional regulatory body the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in the areas of Adult and Learning Disability Nursing. With his MA being in Disability Studies he is primarily a lecturer in learning disability nursing but contributes across a range of programmes within the department. In relation to monitoring teaching quality Paul has acted as a NMC visitor which involved assessing the structure and processes of validated nursing courses within other Universities to ensure they were adhering to professional body regulatory requirements. His experience in teaching on health related courses has given him insight into the needs and support required for newly appointed staff. This is important in relation to lecturers teaching on Nursing and Midwifery courses where they are required to be registered with the NMC.
Mr Ben Fitzpatrick
PGCAP Supervisor, Lecturer, York Law School
http://www.york.ac.uk/law/staff/staffprofile%20BF.htm
Prior to joining York, Ben taught law at the University of Birmingham, the University of Leeds, the Open University and as an academic visitor to the University of Louisville, Kentucky. Both his research and his teaching is mostly concerned with the areas of criminal law, criminal justice, human rights and legal philosophy. Ben has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Criminal Law and the Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education and is currently Director of Undergraduate Programmes and Chair of Board of Studies in the York Law School.
Dr John Issitt
PGCAP Supervisor, Lecturer, Department of Educational Studies
http://www.york.ac.uk/education/our-staff/academic/john-issitt/
John is a National Teaching Fellow and Provost of Langwith College. He has taught in schools, prisons, further education colleges and with the Open University for many years. He teaches extensively on the undergraduate progremme in the Department of Educational Studies and supervises students at Masters level as well as teaching a programme for gifted and talented youth. He has developed innovative approaches to learning in higher education particularly in collaborative writing and peer assessment.
John's main interests are in the structure and presentation of knowledge and he pursues this interest through the study of educational media and through the history of ideas as related to education and learning. John also studies the micro-politics of educational engagement in a range of learning situations and is an aspiring novelist.
Dr Tim Kelly
PGCAP Supervisor, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/people/?group=All%20Staff&username=tpk
Tim has been a lecturer in the Computer Science department since 1999, and Senior Lecturer since 2006. He teaches on the undergraduate computer science degree programmes and the postgraduate MSc programmes in Safety Critical Systems Engineering and Software Engineering. In addition, he has significant experience of teaching Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses in system safety to industry. His research interests are in High Integrity Systems Engineering, particularly safety critical system and as been Principal Investigator on projects totalling approximately £3M of funding in this area. He has also served in various administrative roles in the Computer Science department, including six years as undergraduate admissions tutor, and postgraduate admissions tutor for the MSc Software Engineering programme.
Dr Samer Kharroubi
PGCAP Supervisor, Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics
http://maths.york.ac.uk/www/sak503
Samer is a Senior Lecturer in Statistics at the Mathematics Department since 2006. Prior to joining York, Samer got his PhD degree in Statistics from the University of Surrey. He then worked as a post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Probability and Statistics at the University of Sheffield, studying the formulation of prior knowledge for use in Bayesian statistical analysis of clinical trials .
Samer's research interests are in Bayesian Statistics - methodology and applications. Principal research areas are asymptotic techniques for Bayesian computation and Bayesian methods in Health Economics.
Dr Jason Lynam
PGCAP Supervisor, Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry
http://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/h-n/jlynam/
Jason Lynam graduated from the University of York in 1993 and then undertook a D. Phil. with Dr Roger Mawby at the same institution. He then moved to the University of Bath to take up a Post-Doc position with Professor Michael Green and Dr Andrew Burrows. In 2000 he moved with Professor Green to the University of Bristol and was awarded a Ramsay Memorial Fellowship in 2001. In 2003 Jason took up a position of Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at York. His research interests are based around the interaction of transition metal compounds with alkynes and the therapeutic applications of metal carbonyl compounds. He completed the PGCAP programme in 2005 and offers his experience of this to his supervisees after becoming a supervisor on the programme in 2008.
Dr Nicola F McDonald
PGCAP Supervisor, Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Related Literature
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/engl/staff/academic/mcdonald.htm
Nicola is a medievalist whose current research focuses on Middle English romance, the most audacious and compendious testimony to the imaginary world of the Middle Ages. Educated at the Universities of Toronto and Oxford, with extensive experience of research, teaching and administration at both Oxford and York, she brings to PGCAP a commitment to the integration of research and teaching in the Humanities and a belief in the necessity of constructive critique.
Her teaching, like her research, strives to challenge conceptual and disciplinary boundaries and to convey to students the intellectual excitement of academic inquiry. She sees PGCAP as a productive space for sharing experiences across disciplines but at the same time for recognising, and responding to, their individual subject specificity. Here at York she has taken a lead in the innovation of new teaching programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, including the complete overhaul of the CMS MA’s interdisciplinary core teaching programme (co-taught by staff from English, History, History of Art and Archaeology) and the English Department’s MA in Medieval English Literatures which uniquely requires students to engage in multilingual work across the Norman Conquest. In PGCAP she is committed to maintaining programme flexibility and to responding to the development needs of individual participants.
Nicola is particularly interested in supporting excellence in PhD supervision and in preparing postgraduate students to succeed in a highly competitive academic environment. She has recently been awarded a WUN International Research Mobility Scheme Award to explore, with medievalists at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, ways of professionalizing PhDs more effectively and of preparing them better for the demands of an international academic future. In 2008, Nicola won a Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Award, and in 2010 she was shortlisted for a Times Higher Education Award as the Most Innovative Teacher of the Year.
Dr Peter Mayhew
PGCAP Supervisor, Senior Lecturer, Department of Biology
http://bioltfws1.york.ac.uk/biostaff/staffdetail.php?id=pjm
Peter is an evolutionary ecologist with a special interest in insects. He joined the Department of Biology as a lecturer in 1998 and was amongst the first cohort to complete YCAP, the precursor to PGCAP in 2000. He was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s teaching award in 2008 for his successful engagement with the VLE and contribution to writing skills teaching. He is the author of an introductory textbook in Evolutionary Ecology, and achieved notoriety in 2007 through discovering a link between past episodes of global warming and mass extinction, for which he was nominated as one of the Great Britons of that year. He is currently associate director of the Biology Graduate School Board.
Dr Mark Nicholson
PGCAP Supervisor, Teaching Fellow, Department of Computer Science
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~mark/
Mark Nicholson is a Research and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Computer Science. He is the co-ordinator of the Masters Programme in Safety-Critical Systems, which is a part-time Masters course for the Continued Professional Development (CPD) of Safety Engineers. He has been involved in the development of 2 further Masters level Teaching programmes. He also teaches on CPD courses for industrial clients throughout the world. His research interests are in high integrity systems in the civil aerospace and other domains (such as the health service). He has 17 years of teaching experience mainly at the Masters level. He is a member of the HEA, the IET and Safety and Reliability Society and secretary of a European civil aerospace standards committee.
Dr Lisa O'Malley
PGCAP Supervisor, Lecturer, Department of Social Policy and Social Work
http://www.york.ac.uk/spsw/staff/lisa-omalley/
Lisa is a Lecturer in Social Policy and Chair of the Board of Studies. Her current teaching profile is associated with crime and place. Her research interests continue to lie with aspects of place, particularly the relationship between housing tenure and crime and the criminalisation of place.
Lisa successfully completed PGCAP in 2007 and wishes to share her experience in this area.
Dr Stephen L Smith
PGCAP Supervisor, Senior Lecturer, Department of Electronics
www.elec.york.ac.uk/staff/academic/sls.html
In addition to his varied teaching experience, Steve brings to PGCAP considerable research experience in applying technology to both the health and cultural sectors. Steve is Head of the Graduate School and Deputy Head of Department for Electronics. Steve is also Chair of University Computing Committee and a member of the Information Strategy Group.
Dr Karen Spilsbury
PGCAP Supervisor, Research Fellow, Department of Health Sciences
https://hsciweb.york.ac.uk/research/public/Staff.aspx?ID=1447
Karen offers PGCAP her experience as a health care researcher and nurse having developed a programme of research on important clinical and policy problems in the area of the healthcare workforce and its impact on service delivery and patient care. She has experience as a lecturer and supervisor for undergraduate and postgraduate students. She is a postgraduate programme leader, undergraduate module leader, contributes to module development and the MSc Health Services Research Course Management. In particular, she offers PGCAP her personal experience of successfully completing the course in 2007.
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