Staff
Professor Margaret Price is Director of ASKe. Her role involves working with a team of colleagues to build a learning community centred on assessment, to encourage innovation and foster evidence-based assessment practice within the Higher Education sector.
Margaret was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in June 2002 in recognition of her excellence in teaching and contribution to the development of learning, teaching and assessment in Higher Education, especially through curriculum development in interdisciplinary learning and interpersonal skills development. She is Professor in Learning and Assessment at Oxford Brookes and leads the development of learning and teaching in the Business School through the development of strategy, sharing and enhancement of good practice, and innovation in learning, teaching and assessment methods.
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Berry O'Donovan is one of the Deputy Directors of ASKe. In addition she is the Head of Learning and Teaching Development in the Business School at Oxford Brookes.
Berry is a National Teaching Fellow and primarily teaches on the large, first year, undergraduate modules focusing on orientating new students into the academic demands of higher education. To this end, she is interested in developing students’ academic literacies, cognitive abilities and critical thinking skills. Her research interests centre on learning and teaching, in particular the pedagogy of assessment and the role of community in learning on which she has published.
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Dr Chris Rust is one of the Deputy Directors of ASKe. In addition, he is also Head of the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Deputy Director of the Human Resource Directorate, and a Deputy Director of a second Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning known as the Reinvention Centre. He has researched and published extensively on issues around assessment, but also in a range of other areas including: the experiences of new teachers in HE, the positive effects of supplemental instruction, and the effectiveness of workshops as a method of staff development. He is a Fellow of SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association), and a registered practitioner and accreditor for the UK Higher Education Academy.
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Dr Karen Handley is one of the Deputy Directors of ASKe. In addition, she is the Research Area Leader for pedagogic research in the Business School, and a principal lecturer in the department of Human Resource Management & Organisational Behaviour. Karen teaches research methods at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Pedagogic research interests include e-learning, student engagement, and assessment feedback. Karen recently completed an ESRC-funded research project on knowledge transfer in the context of client-consultancy relationships, which draws on her previous experience as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.She has published in Management Learning, Journal of Management Studies, Organization, Journal of Organizational Behavior and ALT-J Research in Learning Technology.
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Carol Taylor is the ASKe Centre Manager and also one of the team of ASKe Fellows.
Her background and qualifications are in Human Resource Management and she spent several years working in the private sector. More recently Carol’s career has focused on the development of students and other young people, working in both further and higher education, as well as the voluntary sector. Her most recent roles have been as undergraduate course manager and placement support officer in the Business School at Oxford Brookes University.
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Birgit den Outer is Research Assistant for ASKe. She researches understanding of assessment criteria among teaching staff via a variety of qualitative research projects.
Birgit holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam and is currently in her final year of an MA course in Coaching and Mentoring at Brookes University. In a freelance research capacity, Birgit worked on the ASKe FDTL project on student engagement with feedback, contributing to a number of reports, and continues her research in the area of Global Leadership Development for independent organisations.
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Meera Shah has taken on the role of Project Assistant for ASKe. She is currently on placement from Oxford Brookes University, where she is studying for a degree in Business and Marketing management.
Her role encompasses various activities including assisting the Centre Manager with ASKe related subjects, managing ASKe’s Casual Technical Advisors, helping in organising events, undertaking a variety of IT-related tasks and liaising both internally and externally with students, staff and other stakeholders.
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Jill Millar is an ASKe Research Associate and Project Manager of the related HEA funded FDTL Engaging Students with Assessment Feedback project, which is also based at Oxford Brookes Business School.
Jill’s background is in socio-legal research with a PhD from Warwick University. Her current research focus is on assessment and feedback with a particular interest in feedback as a social practice.
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Laura Morosanu is Research Assistant for ASKe. Her main research interests fall within two areas: migration and higher education. She has worked on various social science projects, including qualitative research on Romanian students in Germany and developing student residences in the UK. Her role within ASKe involves collection and analysis of qualitative data for projects focused on student assessment and feedback, as well as writing up reports and contributions to research designs.
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Jane Hudson is Research Assistant for ASKe. She is currently evaluating the impact of providing more face-to-face feedback to students in selected Business School modules. She is also analysing student audio-diaries on assessment and feedback. Jane studied International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also holds a MA from York University (Toronto). Her research interests include social stigma and the narrative construction of self.
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Sally Ann Smith is the ASKe Centre Administrator. She provides administrative support to the Centre including supporting the Centre Director and Centre Manager. Sally has worked at Oxford Brookes University since 1996 in the Business School and Human Resources.
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Nicola Ranjit joined the ASKe team as Events & PR Assistant in February 2009. Nicola has previously worked in the corporate sector as a PA and more recently in the voluntary sector in London, Oxford and India in a fundraising and development capacity. Nicola is responsible for organising student community events, staff and student seminars and conferences, updating the ASKe website and publicity matters.
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Jude Carroll is Deputy Director, ASKe and an Oxford University Teaching Fellow. She has worked in a variety of roles at Oxford Brookes since 1990 and was until recently the course leader for a postgraduate certificate in teaching in higher education. She currently divides her time between educational development work within Brookes and work with ASKe.
As an educational developer, Jude's interest in teaching and learning has focused on deterring student plagiarism and effective teaching strategies for international students. She conducts research, manages others' research projects, writes and lectures widely, and serves as evaluator or consultant to an FDTL5 project at Lancaster University and for the JISC-funded Plagiarism Advisory Service. Jude holds an MA in adult and post-compulsory learning, and is a member of the HE Academy.
Jude is currently on secondment working at the Royal Technical University, Stockholm.
