Dr Martin Brady
Dr Brady joined the School of Classics in 2001. His teaching covers the areas of ancient Greek and Roman language, literature and mythology. He served as School Head of Teaching and Learning from 2006 to 2009 and was at the forefront of several initiatives in the area of curriculum design, including a recent review of the school’s teaching programme. As part of this process he designed and delivered a first year, first semester undergraduate module on ancient mythology that utilised techniques of enquiry-based learning in order to introduce students to key study skills in the field of classical studies.
Ms Carolin Grampp
Carolin Grampp teaches primarily undergraduates in the School of Business. Her teaching and assessment approach reflects her belief that students should be challenged: "our students are capable of rising to any challenge that they are set!" She advances student learning by actively including students in the presentation and discussion of module content, by encouraging students to reflect on their own performance and the performance of their peers, and by linking module content to practice. She also promotes different learning approaches which are reflected in the variety of assessment methods employed in her modules.
Dr John O’Sullivan
Dr O’Sullivan is a college lecturer in the School of Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering with full or partial responsibility for five modules. His teaching philosophy is based on making students active participants rather than passive listeners and he employs a range of learning techniques to address learning outcomes. He believes that learning is a social activity and that a collaborative environment is crucial in facilitating the learning process. His goal as a teacher is to inspire students to achieve their highest potential while ensuring they have the tools, techniques and skills to work as professionals when they graduate.
Dr Alice Feldman
Dr Alice Feldman is a lecturer in Sociology and co-Director of the Migration and Citizenship Research Initiative. She has played a key role in the introduction of active learning to the school’s methods curriculum, which has contributed to increased seminar attendance, assessment outcomes and student retention. Her teaching innovations are research-led, drawing on 10 years of experience using participative and arts-based methods. Combining the constructivist paradigms used in both teaching and research she exploits the expressive, explanatory and reflexive potential of qualitative methods as pedagogical vehicles in the contexts of collaborative projects, thereby using creativity to cultivate a spirit of inquiry relevant to students’ personal and professional lives. This work has also contributed to the publication of teaching scholarship and development of Erasmus graduate programmes in the area of migration, highlighting the ways in which teaching and research innovations can be mutually reinforcing.
Dr Patricia Fitzpatrick
Dr Patricia Fitzpatrick of the School of Public Health, Physiotherapy & Population Science has created a novel initiative to promote postgraduate education in the area of occupational health, through development of an MSc upgrade programme. She has introduced important change with introduction of small group teaching to a large undergraduate class and has contributed to the developing PhD programme in the School, including co-supervision of an Ad Astra Scholar.