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Suanne Gibson Dr Suanne Gibson
Role Programme Director for the BA Education Studies Course. This role entails: • Teaching across all years of the programme and also supervising PhD students. • I am currently carrying out research into ‘Disability and Inclusion’ and ‘Higher Education learning experiences’. • In my managerial role I organise and facilitate subject team and student rep meetings, extern examiner liaison meetings, carry out the annual programme review, support as mentor for new colleagues, review programme and management of paperwork necessary for QAA, manage new module proposals and subsequent revision of degree programme handbook, induction of new students, interviews with prospective students, assessment of UCAS and direct entrant applications, faculty open days and subject preview days. • Working as a support tutor to students if they have queries re the course and or personal issue/s that are impacting on their studies • Active member of the following faculty committees: Undergraduate Standing Committee for Programme Approval, Academic Planning Committee and the Research & Enterprise Committee • Using contacts external to Plymouth University to visit and speak with students and staff Qualifications & background Academic and Professional Qualifications: 1995 BA (2.1Hons) Politics Queen’s University 1996 MPhil Russian and East European Studies Glasgow University 1998 PGCE History and Special Education Oxford University 2001 PhD Education management of Inclusive Education Oxford Brookes Roles on external bodies • Active member of the South West Regional Partnership for the development of Inclusive Practices. • Established contacts in the wider community’s schools and respite centres. • Via connections made I have been active in inviting external speakers to the faculty to speak with students and colleagues. Teaching interests I currently teach across all years on the BA EDST programme. My main area the Disability and Inclusion modules and all core moduels. In 2002 and again 2003 successful application for grant and support for my teaching from HAECF ‘Active in Communities’ Fund. This funding assists student placements in EDST 108 and also covers costs of various meetings with placement contacts. I have also accessed via this funding an accreditation scheme for my students via university careers service and ‘Active in Communities’, upon successful completion of the module they receive a Volunteer Certificate. All of this strengthens the teaching and learning on this course. Throughout first year core Education Studies modules I work closely with other colleagues. We use teaching methods such as team teaching during which we conduct peer observation. I was successful in applying for a £5,000 research grant from HEA--ESCalate for use during academic year 2004/5. Research entitled: A critical study of current practice in undergraduate group work and its role in the development of graduate attributes, resulting in 2 conference papers. For academic year 2005/6 I was awarded a £5,000 University Teaching Fellowship Award-- research entitled: ‘A critical study of current practices in undergraduate group work, its role in the development of graduate attributes and skills (GAS) and the management of conflict’, resulting in 3 conference papers – national and international-- and contributing to my edited book with Continuum publication date September 2008. For 2007/8 I was awarded £5,000 University Teaching Fellowship Award-- research entitled: ‘An emerging voice: students’ experience of writing for publication in Education Studies. This has so far resulted in student publication with York University, and paper to be presented at BESA conference paper June 2008. Research interests
Research interests in the fields of: • Inclusive education theories, practices and policy- I have published with Sage/Paul Chapman, Learning Matters, the international academic journal Disability and Society. I am currently editing a book for publication with Continuum 2008- Gibson, S. and Haynes, J. (Eds.) (2008), Engaging Education: Perspectives on Participation and Inclusion, • Higher Education the Student experience especially looking at and critically assessing the benefits of ‘group work’ in the context of policy objectives, i.e. Graduate Attributes and Skills (G.A.S) • Founder and Chair 2002-2005 ‘Inclusive Education’ Special Interest Group at the British Educational Research Association (BERA). http://www.bera.ac.uk/sigs/siglist.php
Grants & contracts
September 2003 involved in cross faculty research group addressing issues of child mental health which was successful in obtaining £4670 grant from Successful in obtaining £5,000 grant from Escalate (http://www.escalate.ac.uk/) awarded 2004/5. Teaching fellowship 2005/6 Teaching fellowship 2007/8 March 2009-June 2010 Real Ideas Organisation South West with Creative Partnerships: £10,000 research evaluation project.
HEA £5,000 grant awarded 2008/9 to be used 2009/10- National research project addressing students with disability and access in Higher Education. Publications Blandford, S., and Gibson, S. (2000), ‘A Poisoned Chalice?’, Times Education SEN Supplement, 14th July. Gibson, S. (2001), Special Educational Needs Teacher’s Guide to the Internet, Bristol: Classroom Resources Gibson, S. (2002), The first year of the student portal system at Plymouth University, anecdotes from the Faculty of Arts and Education, in, ETHOS, Plymouth University. Blandford, S and Gibson, S. (2005), Managing Special Educational Needs in Primary and Secondary schools, London, Sage. Gibson, S. (2006), ‘Beyond a ‘culture of silence’: inclusive education and the liberation of ‘voice’’, Disability and Society, Vol. 21, No. 4 Gibson, S and Brown, T. (2006), In Conversation with Suanne Gibson, in, The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Education (Escalate) Newsletter, Issue 4, Spring. Gibson, S. and Haynes, J. (Eds.) (2009), Engaging Education: Perspectives on Participation and Inclusion, London, Continuum. Conferences organised • Co-ordinator and facilitator of Centre for Studies in Inclusive Education’s (CSIE) Inclusion UK event at Plymouth University, November 2002 • Sept 2002-Jan 2004 inviting and managing guest lectures at the Faculty of Education from Prof Gary Thomas, Dr Merryn Hutchings, Prof Andrew Pollard. Additional information
2004 British Educational Research Association – Manchester Metropolitan University Managing Special Educational Needs (SEN) In the Mainstream School. The Role of the SEN Team. 2005 British Educational Research Association – University of Glamorgan Student experiences of working in groups at undergraduate level. “Its just a load of GAS” 2005 International Practitioner Research Conference and CARN --Fontys University, Utrecht. Working with the contemporary undergraduate, group work and G.A.S 2006 Discourse Power and Resistance conference-- Manchester Metropolitan University. Engaging professionally with the unexpected in learning (Paper presented by Dr Tony Brown ESCALATE with Suanne Gibson as co-contributor) 2006 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning --- Washington, USA. Engaging professionally with the unexpected in learning (Paper presented by Dr Tony Brown ESCALATE with Suanne Gibson as co-contributor) 2007 British Education Studies Association conference Bath Spa University, Understanding and Responding to Conflict: the path of the Education Studies Undergraduate. |
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