Dr Christine Harrison
Associate Lecturer in Skills Development

Profile

Biography

After gaining my BA and MA in English Literature at the University of Sussex, I taught study skills and English literature to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Athens (Greece) campus of the University of Indianapolis. At the same time, I completed a PhD in contemporary historical fiction (University of Birmingham, 2009) and also developed new courses and published a number of papers in this area. I later gained a Trinity LTCL Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, which I put to use as an English language tutor, pre-sessional tutor, and volunteer teacher at the Hope School for refugees. I latterly worked as both an academic skills advisor (to students and faculty) and a lecturer in travel writing for a US study abroad programme (Athens, Greece) before joining the University of York in 2021.

Departmental roles

I am a member of the Departmental Academic and Communication Skills (DACS) team, and the DACS team lead for the Department of Politics and International Relations. I am also a personal supervisor to some of the department’s PGT students and help coordinate the department’s personal supervision team. 

University roles

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and a trained Staff Mentor (University Staff Mentoring Scheme). I also participate in the SBS Peer Support for Teaching and Learning (PSTL) scheme.

Research

Overview

My current research interests include: the formative feedback dialogue; AI literacy for learning and assessment; the role of previous experience in student engagement with academic skills; inclusivity and decolonisation of teaching and learning.

Publications

Full publications list

Harrison, C. (2023). The influence of previous experience on small group work: the case of marketing master’s students at a UK university. 16th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 13-15 November 2023, Seville, Spain. IATED Digital Library. Available at: doi:10.21125/iceri.2023.1290.

Harrison, C. (2019). Spatialising early and late modernity: representations of London in Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor and The House of Doctor Dee. Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, 0(8), pp. 63-80. Available at: https: doi.org/10.12681/syn.16213.

Harrison, C. and Spiropoulou, A. (2015). Introduction: history and contemporary literature. Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, 0(8), pp. 1-13. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/syn.1620.

Harrison, C. (2012). In dialogue with the early modern past: gender resistance in Rose Tremain’s Restoration and Music and Silence. European Journal of English Studies, 16 (3), pp. 227-39. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2012.735412

Teaching

Postgraduate

I support the academic and professional skills development of students on taught master’s programmes in the Department of Politics and International Relations; I design and teach disciplinary academic skills seminars, module-embedded skills lectures and workshops, and workshops on employability skills. I also co-lead weekly communicative sessions on politics and offer skills tutorials, writing retreats, and online drop-ins to all PGT students.

Other teaching

In addition to my role in the Department of Politics and International Relations, I am the embedded DACS skills advisor for the MSc in Global Marketing (School for Business and Society), and I also design and teach module-embedded skills sessions on a number of undergraduate modules in the School for Business and Society.