Staff
Staff
Professor Margaret Price is Director of the Pedagogy Research Centre including 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 is Professor of Learning and Assessment at Oxford Brookes and 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.
Margaret is involved in a range of external learning, teaching and assessment projects as a steering group member or adviser and is a reviewer for various national and international journals. She regularly presents and is consultant to a number of Higher Education institutions both at home and abroad.
Berry O'Donovan is Deputy Director of the Pedagogy Research Centre including ASKe. In addition she is Principal Lecturer for Student Experience in the Faculty of Business.
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.
Laura Morosanu is Research Assistant for the Pedagogy Research Centre including ASKe. Her main research interests include higher education, social networks, and migration. She is currently working on projects focused on students' experience and perceptions of feedback and various aspects of assessment, including group work. She has also been studying first-year students' use of support networks and international students' adjustment to the UK by analysing student audio diaries.
Birgit den Outer is Research Assistant for the Pedagogy Research Centre including ASKe. She researches tutor experiences of understanding assessment standards and is particularly interested in methods of inquiry and innovative qualitative research approaches. In a freelance research capacity, Birgit continues her research in the area of Global Leadership Development for independent organisations.
Birgit holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam and recently completed an MA in Mentoring and Coaching Practice from Oxford Brookes University, specialising in cross-cultural coaching.
Jill Millar is Research Assistant for the Pedagogy Research Centre including ASKe and Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Business.
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.
Nicola Ranjit is Events & PR Officer for the Pedagogy Research Centre including ASKe. Nicola has previously worked in the corporate sector as a PA and in the voluntary sector in India and the UK in a fundraising and development capacity. Nicola is responsible for organising seminars and annual academic events, publicity material, assisting the research team, updating the ASKe website and financial administration.
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