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National Teaching Fellows

The National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) Scheme celebrates and recognises individuals who have made an outstanding impact on student outcomes and the teaching profession in higher education. Meet the National Teaching Fellows below.
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National Teaching Fellows

Dr Sara Burton
Job Title:Senior Lecturer
Institution: University of Exeter
Year: 2020
As Senior Lecturer and microbial ecologist, Dr Sara Burton has worked at universities and in industry; moreover, roles within the Microbiology Society have allowed her to support and develop microbiology education internationally. Biosciences student employability enhancement and teaching laboratory design and delivery have been amongst her varied education roles.
Professor Jackie Carter
Job Title:Professor of Statistical Literacy
Institution: The University of Manchester
Year: 2020
Jackie Carter passionately believes that we learn skills through practising them, and that applied social research can be undertaken by undergraduates, given the chance. As an undergraduate, Jackie read Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Today she is empowering her own students to become critical data consumers and well-informed citizens.
Dr Catherine Coelho
Job Title:Associate Professor
Institution: University of Plymouth
Year: 2020
Catherine has had a profound impact on struggling students, having designed and implemented an academic remediation process that has positive short-term and longitudinal improvements in student outcomes.

Catherine is passionate about promoting inclusivity and valuing diversity and is proud of her impact in the Medical Education literature.
Michael Cole
Job Title:Senior Lecturer
Institution: University of East London
Year: 2020
Michael is a Senior Lecturer, a musculoskeletal therapies clinician, Principal Teaching Fellow, and part-time PhD student. Michael has special interests in anti-racist pedagogy and exercise rehabilitation. Michael has previously worked in industry and in further education, and continues as a HE education consultant and a Sports Therapist in private practice.
Stephen Corbett
Job Title:Head of School
Institution: University of Portsmouth
Year: 2020
Stephen Corbett is a Head of School at the University of Portsmouth. As a previous further education teacher, he advocates strong collaboration between the higher and further education sectors. Through Stephen’s leadership and partnership work, he has had an impact on the development of new and existing further education teachers in England
Philip Cosson
Job Title:Senior Lecturer
Institution: Teesside University
Year: 2020
Innovation, passion and entrepreneurial spirit all drive Philip to seek and find methods for the student to learn from experimentation. This learning is guided, contextualised and supported by an expert tutor. The computer-simulated radiography environments and other technology Philip develops with student partners act as fertile ground for professional development.
Adam Feldman
Job Title:Senior Lecturer (Education and Scholarship) Renewable Energy Engineering Group
Institution: University of Exeter
Year: 2020
Adam Feldman brings unique, highly diverse, multidisciplinary skills from a 20-year career in orthopaedic surgery to a second career in engineering academia and education at the University of Exeter’s Department of Renewable Energy. As undergraduate programme-lead, his subject has been voted twice consecutively for ‘Best Subject of Study’ at the University.
Judith Francois
Job Title:Senior Lecturer
Institution: Kingston University
Year: 2020
Judith is an innovative and creative academic who is able to bring new insights into teaching. Judith constantly strives to develop strategies to build bridges that support students and build self-resilience.
Wendy Garnham
Job Title:Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Director of Student Experience for the Central Foundation Years
Institution: University of Sussex
Year: 2020
Wendy has designed and delivered innovative, award-winning projects in collaboration with students that have resulted in accelerated achievement and increased creativity. Wendy co-founded the Active Learning Network which is now in its fourth year, with 10 satellite groups and a reach of over 121 countries worldwide.
Emma Gillaspy
Job Title:Reader in Creative and Collaborative Learning
Institution: University of Central Lancashire
Year: 2020
NTFS Ally, supporting applications from: Disabled colleagues, Part-time colleagues, Staff from a minority ethnic background
Since receiving her NTFS in 2020, Emma has been promoted to Reader and received a CATE award for her involvement in the #creativeHE team. These achievements demonstrate her continued commitment to creative, active and collaborative learning.
Clare Guilding
Job Title:Senior Lecturer; Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Institution: Newcastle University
Year: 2020
Clare is an innovative and creative lecturer who continually seeks to bring out the best in herself and others. She is the recipient of multiple awards for her teaching excellence and forward-thinking approach to medical education, student support and colleague development.
Emma Mayhew NTFS
Job Title:Professor of Pedagogy in Politics
Institution: University of Reading
Year: 2020
Emma Mayhew is an experienced Professor with a passion for inclusive student learning and digital transformation. She has co-led major projects around online assessment, assessment analytics dashboards and multi-media learning. She facilitates leadership, project and change management training in the sector and provides mentorship to support women’s leadership.