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York academic wins National Teaching Fellowship award

Posted on 24 June 2010

A University of York academic has won an award recognising excellence in teaching.

Annie Trapp, from the Department of Psychology, is to receive a £10,000 National Teaching Fellowship award from the Higher Education Academy.

I am very pleased to receive this award which will support work to spread effective practice in the way psychology is taught

Annie Trapp

She is Director of the Higher Education Academy Psychology Network, based at York, which works to support and to enhance the quality of teaching in the subject across all UK universities.

Her award is one of 50 National Teaching Fellowships made to recognise individual excellence and to support their professional development.

Annie Trapp said: “I am very pleased to receive this award which will support work to spread effective practice in the way psychology is taught, in particular in encouraging more undergraduate courses to focus students understand on the application of psychological knowledge to real world situations, to engage in meaningful work-experience opportunities and to benefit from periods of international study.”

Annie Trapp has conducted extensive research into the way psychology is taught in higher education and has been the editor of the journal Psychology Learning and Teaching for the past ten years.

She is a member of the International Conference of Psychology Education Committee and Chair of the European Psychology Learning and Teaching Association.

Her work includes encouraging collaboration between psychology teachers which has seen the creation of the EUROPLAT network focusing on raising standards in learning and teaching and enhancing the employability of psychology graduates across Europe.

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