Key Department Roles

Role	Name
Departmental Management Team (DMT)
Co-Heads of Department	Professor Kathryn Asbury Professor Vanita Sundaram
Deputy Head of Department	Dr Jeremy Airey
Chair, Board of Studies	Dr Umar Toseeb
Acting Director of Research	Professor Emma Marsden
Deputy Head of Faculty Operations	Nicky Henson

Departmental Roles
Director, Undergraduate Studies	Dr Nathalie Noret
Deputy Director, Undergraduate Studies (Admissions)	Dr Daniel McArthur
Deputy Director, Undergraduate Studies (Assessment)	Dr Lisa Kim
Deputy Director, Psychology in Education (Admissions)	Sarah Wild
Director of Master's Programmes (Admissions and Assessment)	Dr Ursula Lanvers
Director of Master's Programmes (Teaching and Learning)	Heather Buchanan
Director of Research Programmes	Dr Clementine Beauvais
Director of Initial Teacher Training	Professor Claire Ball-Smith
Deputy Director of Initial Teaching Training	Catherine Shawyer
Chair, Ethics Committee	Dr Cylcia Bolibaugh
Deputy Chair, Ethics Committee	Dr Chelsea Sellers Dr Elpis Pavlidou
Chair, Exceptional Circumstances Affecting Assessment Committee	Dr David O'Reilly
Chair, Board of Examiners	Dr Zoe Handley
Chair, Scholarship Forum	Dr Amanda Naylor
Careers & Employability Officer	Dr Nadia Jessop
Visiting Student Co-ordinator	Dr Daniel Kyereko
Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Co-ordinator	Dr Chelsea Sellers
Departmental Impact Lead	Dr Beth Bell
Open Science Lead	Dr Cylcia Bolibaugh
Fellowship Lead	Alice Hiendl
Departmental Safety Officer	Mary Yates
Disability & Welfare Officer	Dr Erin Dysart
Equality & Diversity Champion	Professor Vanita Sundaram
PhD Training Workshop Co-ordinator	Dr Louise Tracey
Social Media	Alice Hiendl (research) Sarah Moir (student/teaching) Paisley Bryce (student/teaching)
Academic e-Learning Co-ordinator	Dr Daniel Kyereko
Early Career Forum (ECF)	Dr Zoe Baker

Research Centre Leaders
Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Education (CASLE)	Professor Danijela Trenkic
Deputy, Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Education (CASLE)	Dr David O'Reilly
Centre for Research on Education and Social Justice (CRESJ)	Professor Liz Thomas
Deputy, Centre for Research on Education and Social Justice (CRESJ)	Dr Anna Bull
Psychology in Education Research Centre (PERC)	Dr Umar Toseeb
Deputy, Psychology in Education Research Centre (PERC)	Dr Lisa Kim
University of York Science Education Group (UYSEG)	Dr Kerry Knox
Deputy, University of York Science Education Group (UYSEG)	Dr Naomi Holmes

Programme Leaders - Undergraduate
BA Education (BAE)	Dr Eleanor Brown
BA Sociology and Education (BASE)	Dr Peter Sutoris Dr Daniel Kyereko (from January 2024)
BSc Psychology in Education	Dr Lisa Kim

Programme Leaders - Postgraduate
PhD Applied Linguistics	Dr Ursula Lanvers
PhD Education / PhD Education (by distance learning)	Dr Anna Bull
PhD TESOL	Dr Irena Kuzborska
PhD Psychology in Education	Dr Sebastian Suggate
MA Education	Professor Paula Mountford
Deputy, MA Education	Dr Mike Wray
Acting MA Social Justice & Education	Professor Paul Wakeling (Semester 1)
MA Global Citizenship Education (MAGCE)	Dr Anna Bull
MA Applied Linguistics for English Language Teaching (MAALELT)	Professor Danijela Trenkic
MA Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching (MAALLT)	Professor Danijela Trenkic
MA Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages (TESOL)	Dr Khaled El Ebyary
MSc Mental Health and Wellbeing in Education (MSc MHWE)	Dr Mike Wray
MSc Psychology in Education	Dr Beth Bell
PGCE, Initial Teacher Training	Professor Claire Ball-Smith

PGCE Subject Area Leaders
English	Catherine Shawyer
Geography	Georgia Ramsay
History	Helen Snelson
Mathematics	Helen Granger
Modern Foreign Languages	Mirjam Buehler
Science	Simon Quinnell / Leanne Mason
Whole School Issues (WSI)	Professor Claire Ball-Smith
Schools Partnership Facilitator	Victoria Allen Caroline Capper