Dr Andrew Folkard

National Teaching Fellow 2006 Andrew Folkard is a Senior Lecturer within the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University whose teaching interests centre on developing students' scientific and quantitative literacy and fluency. Over the last eight years he has developed quantitative skills teaching within the Geography degree scheme portfolio at Lancaster through a wide range of tools and techniques, aiming to break down the barriers many students perceive between themselves and quantitative skills and to make those skills relevant to their interests and motivations, through vivid, clear and thorough teaching. Andrew has also assessed the goodness of this practice, and spread good practice through a wide range of activities at many levels: with colleagues in cognate disciplines, across his faculty and institution and nationally. This has been achieved via presentations, papers, leading projects of his own and sitting on steering committees of colleagues projects. As Director of Studies for Postgraduate Research Students within the Lancaster Environment Centre, he is expanding his interests, which were previously focused at undergraduate level to Ph.D. students' quantitative skills learning. Amongst his other teaching and learning interests are the use of discussion-based learning, and narrative (storytelling) approaches to teaching, learning and assessment in science disciplines.