“This year I have visited universities in London, Oxford, Sussex, Wales, Eire and Sweden. Recently I have spoken at a Higher Education Policy and Practice (HEPP) seminar in Kingston and at a UKCGE (UK Council for Graduate Education) event in Bristol ‘Strategies for Supervisor Development’.  In Bristol we had a lively discussion about approaches to managing the workload of supervisors.  I gave a conference presentation on ‘Identifying learning outcomes at Doctoral Level’ and am creating a 3-day residential programme for later in the academic year.

Research for a report on Supervisor Development Programmes has been completed for another client.   Much of my consultancy work has involved working with doctoral supervisors and looking at developing researchers, I am also working on introducing research at all levels in the curriculum and am also actively involved in coaching and mentoring, leadership and academic development.

I am also writing a chapter for a book (to be published by Routledge in 2012) designed to help universities make the most of that growing group: the part-time teachers.  The chapter is called ‘What the part-time lecturer really needs to know”.

Contact Anne for information on workshops, seminars, research or just to talk about:

• Research supervision, trends in doctoral education and developing the globally competent postgraduate
• Strategic academic leadership, merging and managing essential changes
• Advanced practice for academics including:
  • Improving learning with small and large groups
  • Making marking and assessment easier and fairer
  • Ensuring accessibility for diverse groups in your programmes
  • Introducing global awareness and internationalism
  • Developing approaches to employability that work
  • Curriculum design for the 21^st century
  • Evaluating practice and improving performance as an academic
• Introduction to working in higher education for new academics
• Designing mentoring programmes and developing mentoring skills
• Qualitative research and writing case studies

Courses, seminars, workshops or more detailed research on teaching and learning.

Dr Anne Lee. Consultancy. Formerly at the University of Surrey. Academic Development. Doctoral Supervision