Prof Ruth Healey | University of Chester

University Innovation Fellow, Professor of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

I am a human geographer with interests in teaching geography in higher education, and asylum and immigration to the developed world. My current research broadly focuses upon enhancing higher education teaching and research. This includes, supporting undergraduate students to develop ethical thinking skills; exploring student-staff partnerships as a way of improving student engagement in higher education; and investigating gender differences in academic research activity.

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I am module leader for:

GE4013: Changing the World
GE4016: Skills for Change
GE5008: Fieldwork Applications: New York
GE5015: Society and Space
GE6018: Excluded Peoples? Migrants and Refugees

I also teach on GE4012 People and Places, GE4015 Researching Environments, GE5018 Social Research Methods and supervise student undertaking GE6001 Dissertation at Level 6.

PhD Supervision

Sophie Cowell: ‘The use of positive action within football coaching’. (Completed - 2021). Secondary supervisor.

John Morrow: ‘The experience students with Dyslexia, have of academic assessment, whilst studying for a qualifying law degree in small northern university’ (Completed – 2017). Secondary supervisor.

Current and recent research projects

'Student-staff partnership in editing for a peer-review journal: expanding partnership into the realm of publishing' (£3,049 Quality-Related Research Funding, University of Chester) in collaboration with Dr Anthony Cliffe (University of Chester); Professor Alison Cook-Sather (Bryn Mawr College); Professor Mick Healey (University of Gloucestershire) and Dr Amrita Kaur (Wenzhou-Kean University).

‘Students as change agents: student-staff partnership in feedback through self and peer assessment’ (£5,000 Quality-Related Research Funding, University of Chester) in collaboration with Professor Derek France and Dr Katharine Welsh (Department of Geography and International Development, University of Chester).

‘Module design and development through student-staff partnerships: process, experiences and engagement’ (£8,000 Quality-Related Research Funding, University of Chester) in collaboration with Dr Katharine Welsh and Professor Derek France (Department of Geography and International Development, University of Chester).

‘Gender and representation in the Research Excellence Framework’ (£29,798 Research Knowledge Transfer Office, University of Chester) in collaboration with Dr Chantal Davies (Law School, University of Chester).

Higher Education research

Healey, R. and Healey, M. (in press) Identifying and reviewing the key literature for your assignment, in N. J. Clifford, Cope, M. & Billespie, T. (Eds.) Key Methods in Geography, 4th Edition (London: Sage).

Healey, M. & Healey, R.L. (2023) Searching the literature on scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL): An academic literacies perspective: Part 1, Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 11 (January).

Healey, M. & Healey, R.L. (2023) Reviewing the literature on scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL): An academic literacies perspective: Part 2, Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 11 (January).

Healey, R. L. & France, D. (2022) ‘Every partnership [… is] an emotional experience’: Towards a model of partnership support for addressing the emotional challenges of student-staff partnerships. Teaching in Higher Education. Online First.

Healey, R. L. & Leatham, C. (2021) How to persuade and influence people: the art of effective debate in geography, Journal of Geography in Higher Education. Online First.

Friberg, J., Frake-Mistak, M., Healey, R. L., Mooney, J., Sanchez, S., Sipes, S. & Waller, K. (2021) A Developmental Framework for Mentorship in SoTL Illustrated by Three Examples of Unseen Opportunities for Mentoring, Teaching and Learning Inquiry 9(1): 395-413.

Healey, R. L. & West, H. (2021) Re-naming and re-framing: Evolving the ‘Higher Education Research Group’ to the ‘Geography & Education Research Group’, Area. Online First.

Healey, R. L., France, D., Hill, J. & West, H. (2020) The history of the Higher Education Research Group of the UK Royal Geographical Society: The changing status and focus of geography education in the academy, Area. Online First.

West, H., Hill, J., Finn, M., Healey, R. L., Marvell, A. & Tebbett, N. (2020) GeogEd: A new research group founded on the reciprocal relationship between geography education & the geographies of education, Area. Online First.

Healey, M. & Healey, R. L. (2019) Students as Partners Guide: Student Engagement Through Partnership - A guide to the Advance HE Framework, AdvanceHE. Invited report.

Healey, R. L. (2019) The benefits of hindsight: Lessons learnt from leading my first cross-department student-staff partnership project, York Learning and Teaching Forum Magazine. Invited article.

Hill, J., Healey, R. L., West, H. & Déry, C. (2019) Pedagogic partnership in higher education: encountering emotion in learning and enhancing student wellbeing, Journal of Geography in Higher Education.

Healey, R. L. & Davies, C. (2019) Gendered conceptions of ‘research’: The relationship between gender and interpretations of ‘research’, Higher Education Research and Development 38(7): 1386-1400.

Healey, R. L. & Ribchester, C. (2019) Pedagogies for developing undergraduate ethical thinking within geography, H. Walkington, J. Hill & S. Dyer (Eds.) The Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Geography (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing): 139-150. Invited chapter.

Healey, R.L. & Hill, J. (2019) Reflecting on ‘Directions’: Reflecting on ‘Directions’: Growing with the times and future developments, Journal of Geography in Higher Education 43(2): 125-130. Invited editorial.

Healey, R. L., Lerczak, A., Welsh, K. & France, D. (2019) By any other name? The impacts of differing assumptions, expectations and misconceptions about student-staff ‘partnerships’. International Journal for Students as Partners, 3(1): 106-122.

Matthews, K.E., Dvorakova, S.L., Mercer-Mapstone, L., Acai, A., Cook-Sather, A., Felten, P., Healey, M., Healey, R.L. & Marquis, E. (2019) Enhancing outcomes and reducing inhibitors to the engagement of students and academics in learning and teaching partnerships: Implications for academic development support, International Journal for Academic Development 24(3): 246-259.

Davies, C. & Healey, R. L. (2019) Hacking through the Gordian Knot: Can facilitating operational mentoring untangle the gender research productivity puzzle in HE? Studies in Higher Education 44(1): 31-44.

Ribchester, C. & Healey, R. L. (2019) Realism, reflection and responsibility: The challenge of writing effective scenarios to support the development of ethical thinking skills, Journal of Further and Higher Education, 43(1): 101-114.

Healey, R.L., Healey, M. and Cliffe, A. (2018) Engaging in radical work: Students as partners in academic publishing, Efficiency Exchange.

Healey, M. & Healey, R.L. (2018) ‘It depends’: Exploring the context-dependent nature of students as partners practices and policies, International Journal for Students as Partners, 2(1).

Moore-Cherry, N. and Healey, R.L. (2018) Staff-student partnership: inclusive/exclusive pedagogic practices, Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal 2(1), 1-2.

Cliffe, A., Cook-Sather, A., Healey, M., Healey, R. L., Marquis, E., Matthews, K.E., Lucy Mercer-Mapstone, L., Ntem, A., Puri, V., & Woolmer, C. (2017) Launching a journal about and through students as partners, International Journal for Students as Partners 1(1).

Healey, R.L. (2017) The power of debates? Reflections on their potential for geography in higher education: teaching for social transformation through debate, M. Haigh, D. Cotton, and T. Hall (Eds.) Pedagogic Research in Geography in Higher Education, 112-130, Abingdon, Routledge.

Healey, R.L. & Ribchester, C. (2016) Developing ethical geography students? The impact and effectiveness of a tutorial based approach, Journal of Geography in Higher Education 40(2): 302-319.

Healey, M. and Healey, R.L. (2016) How to conduct a literature search, N.J. Clifford and G. Valentine (Eds.) Key Methods in Geography, 3rd Edition (London: Sage): 16-34.

Davies, C., Healey R.L. & Cliffe, A. (2016) Gendered Experiences of Academic Staff in Relation to Research Activity and the REF2014, Forum for Research into Equality and Diversity, University of Chester.

Moore-Cherry, N., Healey R.L. Nicholson, D.T., & Andrews, W. (2015) Inclusive partnership: Enhancing student engagement in Geography, Journal of Geography in Higher Education 40(1): 84-103.

Healey R.L. (2014) How engaged are undergraduate students in ethics and ethical thinking? An analysis of the ethical development of undergraduates by discipline, Student Engagement and Experience Journal 3(2): 1-21.

Healey, R.L. (2013) Ethical thinking in a disciplinary context: the ethical development of undergraduates and expectations of tutors in the arts, social and pure sciences, Society for Research into Higher Education Conference Proceedings.

Healey, R.L., Bass, T., Caulfield, J., Hoffman, A., McGinn, M.K., Miller-Young, J. and Haigh, M. (2013) Being ethically minded: Practising the scholarship of teaching and learning in an ethical manner, Teaching and Learning Inquiry 1(2): 23-32.

Healey, R.L. (2012) The power of debates? Reflections on their potential for geography in higher education: teaching for social transformation through debate, Journal of Geography in Higher Education 36(2): 239-257.

Healey, R.L., Ribchester, C. & Ross, K. (2011) 'The Ethical Student': Enhancing the Teaching of Ethics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, for the Learning and Teaching Institute, University of Chester.

Healey, R.L., Ribchester, C. & Ross, K. (2011) 'The ethical student': teaching ethics for critical thinking in the undergraduate curriculum, Society for Research into Higher Education Conference Proceedings.

Vajoczki, S., Biegas, T.C., Crenshaw, M.W., Healey, R.L., Osayomi, T., Bradford, M. & Monk, J. (2011) Professional development for early career geographers: contexts, practices and tensions, Journal of Geography in Higher Education 35(3): 395-408.

Boyd, W.E., Healey, R.L., Hardwick, S.W. and Haigh, M. with contributions from Klein, P., Doran, B., Trafford, J. and Bradbeer J. (2010) “None of us sets out to hurt people”: An essay on The Ethical Geographer and geography curricula in higher education, in M. Healey, E. Pawson and M. Solem (Eds.) Active Learning and Student Engagement: International Perspectives and Practices in Geography in Higher Education (London: Routledge): 22-35.

Wellens, J., Bernardi, A., Chalkley, B., Chambers, B., Healey, R.L., Monk, J., and Vender, J. (2010) Teaching geography for social transformation, in M. Healey, E. Pawson and M. Solem (Eds.) Active Learning and Student Engagement: International Perspectives and Practices in Geography in Higher Education (London: Routledge): 150-164.

Bærenholdt, J.O, Everts, J., Granås, B., Gregson, N. & Healey, R.L. (2010) Performing academic practice: using the master class to build postgraduate discursive competences, Journal of Geography in Higher Education 34(2): 283-298.

Healey, M. & Healey, R. L. (2009) How to conduct a literature search, N.J. Clifford and G. Valentine (Eds.) Key Methods in Geography, 2nd Edition (London: Sage): 16-34.

Boyd, W.E., Healey, R.L., Hardwick, S.W. and Haigh, M. with contributions from Klein, P., Doran, B., Trafford, J. and Bradbeer J. (2008) “None of us sets out to hurt people”: An essay on The Ethical Geographer and geography curricula in higher education, Journal of Geography in Higher Education 32(1): 37-50.

Healey, R. L. & Healey, M. (2008) Book Review: 'Aspiring Academics: A Resource Book for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty', International Journal of Academic Development 13(3): 219-221.

Wellens, J., Bernardi, A., Chalkley, B., Chambers, B., Healey, R.L., Monk, J., and Vender, J. (2006) Teaching geography for social transformation, Journal of Geography in Higher Education 30(1): 117-131.

Geography, refugee and migration research

Healey, R.L. & Collins, R. (2020) Addressing gender inequalities, Geography Review. Invited article.

Hand, D., Davies, C. & Healey, R.L. (2016) Can Rights be Ring-fenced in Times of Austerity? Equality, Equity and Judicial 'Trusteeship' over the UK's Fairness Agenda, in A. Driver & J. Miller (Eds.) Justiciability of Human Rights Law in Domestic Jurisdictions (Springer: London).

Healey, R.L. (2014) Gratitude and hospitality: Tamil refugee employment in London and the conditional nature of integration, Environment and Planning A 46(3): 614-628.

Darling, J.M., Healey, R.L. & Healey, L. with Kalu, S., Rashid, K. & Sued, I. (2012) Seeing the city anew: asylum seeker perspectives of 'belonging' in Greater Manchester, North West Geography 12(1): 20-28.

Healey, R.L. (2010) Gender variation in asylum experiences in the UK: the role of patriarchy and coping strategies, Journal of Identity and Migration Studies 4(2): 24-43.

Healey, R.L. (2010) Book Review: 'Cambodian Refugees in Ontario: Resettlement, Religion and Identity', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 33(10): 1842-1844.

Healey, R.L. (2010) Refugee Employment Experiences: The Case of Tamil Refugees in the UK, PhD Thesis Executive Summary.

Healey, R. L. (2006) Asylum seekers and refugees: a structuration theory analysis of their experiences in the UK, Population, Space and Place 12(4): 257-271.

Recent presentation, workshop and conference contributions

2022

Invited workshop: ‘Engaging students as active participants in their education through student-staff partnerships’(with Mick Healey). Maastricht University, Netherlands. October 2022.

Invited workshop: ‘Students as partners and social justice’ (with Mick Healey). HAN University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands. May 2022.

Invited workshop: ‘”Making transparent how learning is being made possible”: Designing and writing about pedagogic research’. Geography and Education Research Group Teaching and Scholarship Meets. March 2022.

Invited workshop: ‘Engaging students as partners in learning and teaching in HE’ (with Mick Healey). National University of Singapore, Singapore. February 2022.

2021

Invited workshop: ‘Engaging students and staff in SoTL projects’ (with Mick Healey). Universiteit Utrect, Teaching and Learning Special Interest Group. December 2021.

‘Introducing the concept of 'students as partners'. Launching the Students as Partners Institutional Network: ‘SaP Chat’, University of Chester, UK. November 2021.

Keynote: ‘Engaging students as active participants through student-staff partnership’ (with Mick Healey). University of Essex, Senior Staff Conference. October 2021.

Keynote: ‘Enhancing student success through student-staff partnership’ (with Mick Healey). Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland (funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning). October 2021.

‘The history of the Higher Education Research Group of the UK Royal Geographical Society: The changing status and focus of geography education in the academy’ (with Derek France, Jenny Hill and Harry West). Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference (RGS), London. September 2021.

Invited workshop: ‘Students Learning Ambassadors project consultation workshop’ (with Mick Healey). University of Aberystwyth, UK. May 2021.

‘“Making transparent how learning is being made possible”: The importance and practice of pedagogic research’. Research Festival, University of Chester, UK. April 2021.

Panellist: ‘Making Professor.’ Diversity Festival University of Chester, UK. March 2021.

Invited workshop: ‘Students as partners.’ University of Göttingen, Germany. February 2021.

Invited workshop: ‘Students as partners in pedagogy: principles, practice and research.’ Indiana University, Indiana, USA. January 2021.

Invited masterclass: ‘Students as Partners in the Rich Learning Environment’ to University Board of Deans (with Mick Healey). Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands. January 2021.

2020

Keynote: ‘Pandemic partnerships and power’ (with Mick Healey). RAISE Students as Partners Special Interest Group, University of Chester, Chester, UK. September 2020.

Keynote: ‘Exploring resistance to learning in partnership’. South Thames Colleges Group, Kingston College. June 2020. [Cancelled due to Covid-19].

Invited workshop: ‘Engaging students in learning: Making my teaching sessions more active’ (with Mick Healey). Herriot Watt University, UK – Dubai Campus. June 2020.

Keynote: ‘Engaging students in learning: Making my teaching sessions more active’ (with Mick Healey). Herriot Watt University, UK. June 2020.

Keynote: ‘Engaging Students in Partnership with Staff in Learning and Teaching’ (with Mick Healey). University of Gloucestershire, UK. June 2020.

Keynote: ‘Exploring resistance to learning in partnership: Assumptions, expectations, and misconceptions.’ U4 Society Network (Universities of Uppsala, Groningen, Gottingen, Gent, and Tartu), Netherlands. May 2020. [Cancelled due to Covid-19].

‘Conceptions of ‘research’ and their gendered impact on research activity: a UK case study’. Research Festival, University of Chester, Chester, UK. March 2020. [Cancelled due to Covid-19].

‘Co-constructing Excellence in Learning and Teaching through Student-Staff Partnerships: Working with Resistance’ (with Mick Healey). Association of National Teaching Fellows Annual Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. March 2020.

Keynote: ‘Exploring resistance to learning in partnership: Assumptions, expectations, and misconceptions’. Partners in Learning Conference, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, UK. January 2020.

2019

Keynote: 'The importance of context in student-staff partnerships' (with Mick Healey). RAISE, University of Chester, Chester, UK, November 2019.

Invited workshop: Writing in publication for SoTL: with a particular focus on refereed journals’ Pre-Conference Workshop (with Mick Healey, Kelly Matthews, Alison Cook-Sather). International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL) Annual Conference, Atlanta, USA, October 2019.

Keynote: ‘Engaging Students and Staff in Learning and Teaching Partnerships’ (with Mick Healey), University of Surrey, UK, September 2019.

‘“Every partnership [… is] an emotional experience”: Towards a model for supporting the emotional wellbeing of staff and students working in partnership together’ (with Derek France and Katharine Welsh). Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference (RGS), London, September 2019.

Keynote: ‘Engaging students as partners to inspire student success’ (with Mick Healey, presented by Ruth Healey). University of Central Lancashire, UK, July 2019.

Keynote: ‘Developing learning communities through staff-student partnerships’ (with Mick Healey, presented by Ruth Healey). University of York, UK, June 2019.

2018

Keynote: ‘Engaging students as partners in learning and teaching in HE’ (presented by Mick Healey). Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, December 2018.

Keynote: ‘Engaging students as partners to be active learners and researchers’ (presented by Mick Healey). December 2018: Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.

Keynote: ‘Engaging students as partners in research and inquiry’ (presented by Mick Healey). University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, November 2018.

‘By any other name? Differing assumptions and their effects of staff-student ‘partnerships’’ (with Derek France, Katharine Welsh, Alex Lerczak). International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL) Annual Conference, Bergen, Norway, October 2018.

‘Engaging students as partners in academic publishing’ (with Anthony Cliffe, Mick Healey, Lucy Mercer-Mapston, and Cherie Woolmer). International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL) Annual Conference, Bergen, Norway, October 2018.

‘Writing in publication for SoTL: with a particular focus on refereed journals’ Pre-Conference Workshop (with Mick Healey, Kelly Matthews, Alison Cook-Sather). International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL) Annual Conference, Bergen, Norway, October 2018.

‘It depends’: Exploring the context-dependent nature of students as partners practices and policies’ (with Mick Healey). RAISE Annual Conference, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, September 2018.

‘Working partnerships: the art of effective student-staff partnerships’ (with Derek France), Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference (RGS), Cardiff, September 2018.

‘Working partnerships: the art of effective student-staff partnerships’ (presented by Derek France). International Geographical Union (IGU), Quebec, August 2018.

Keynote: ‘Engaging students as partners with particular reference to undergraduate research’ (with Mick Healey). Teesside University, Middlesbrough, July 2018.

Keynote: ‘Engaging students as partners in learning and teaching in Higher Education’ (with Mick Healey). Bath Spa University, Bath, June 2018.

‘Students as partners: what it all means’. Faculty of Social Science Pedagogic Soundbites, University of Chester, January 2018.

‘Relinquishing control: partnership in everyday teaching’. Faculty of Social Science Pedagogic Soundbites, University of Chester, January 2018.

2017

Keynote: ‘Developing students as partners’ (with Mick Healey). Centre for Education and Learning Cross University Meeting: Leiden, Delft, and Rotterdam, Delft, Netherlands, November 2017.

Keynote: ‘Engaging students as partners in learning and teaching in Higher Education’, (with Mick Healey; presented by Mick Healey). Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. October 2017.

‘Working partnerships: the art of effective student-staff partnerships’, (with Derek France, Katharine Welsh and Alex Lerczak; presented by Derek France). University of Chester Annual Conference, September 2017.

‘Engaging students as partners and as change agents’ (with Mick Healey). Learning and Teaching Conference Workshop, Writtle University College, July 2017.

‘Embedding active, research and inquiry based learning in the college-based curriculum’ (with Mick Healey). Learning and Teaching Conference Keynote, Writtle University College, July 2017.

‘Students as partners: The vision for the Student Experience Committee?’ Workshop (with Becky Lees and Peter Jenner). Student Experience Committee Meeting, University of Chester, July 2017.

‘Developing your research career’. Afternoon workshop (with Chantal Davies, Elizabeth Christopher, Claire Griffiths and Kathryn Leighton), Diversity Festival, University of Chester, February 2017.

2016

‘Designing and developing courses through staff-student partnerships: processes, experiences and engagement’. Journal of Geography in Higher Education @40 Anniversary Conference, London, December 2016.

‘Analysing stories of developing the curriculum through staff-student partnerships: processes, experiences and engagement’. International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL) Annual Conference, Los Angeles, USA, October 2016.

‘Scaling the Mountain: an exploration of gendered experience of academic staff in relation to the Research Excellence Framework 2014’, with Chantal Davies and Anthony Cliffe (presented by Anthony Cliffe and Ruth Healey). Higher Education Conference, Amsterdam, July 2016.

‘Designing and developing courses through staff-student partnerships: processes, experiences and engagement’. Higher Education Conference, Amsterdam, July 2016.

‘Supporting the development of university students’ ethical thinking skills’, with Chris Ribchester. Higher Education Conference, Amsterdam, July 2016.

‘Scaling the Mountain: an exploration of gendered experience of academic staff in relation to the Research Excellence Framework 2014’, with Chantal Davies and Anthony Cliffe. University of Chester, Diversity Festival, February 2016.

2015

‘Scaling the Mountain: an exploration of gendered experience of academic staff in relation to the Research Excellence Framework 2014’, with Chantal Davies and Anthony Cliffe (presented by Chantal Davies and Ruth Healey). Society for Research into Higher Education, Annual Conference, Newport, December 2015.

2014

‘Supporting the development of university students’ ethical thinking skills’, with Chris Ribchester. Higher Education Academy, Annual Conference, Aston University, July 2014.

‘Understanding and supporting the ethical development of university students’, with Chris Ribchester. Bangor University Learning and Teaching Seminar Series, March 2014.

2012

‘Teaching ethical thinking in a disciplinary context: the ethical development of undergraduates and expectations of tutors in the arts, social and pure sciences’. International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL) Annual Conference, Hamilton, Canada, October 2012.

2011

‘The ethical student’: teaching ethics for critical thinking in the undergraduate curriculum, with Chris Ribchester and Kimberley Ross (presented by Ruth Healey and Chris Ribchester). Society for Research into Higher Education, Annual Conference, Newport, December 2011.

‘The ethical student’: enhancing the teaching of ethics in the undergraduate curriculum’ with Chris Ribchester and Kimberley Ross. University of Chester Annual Conference: Exploring engagement concepts in Higher Education, Workshop. September 2011.

‘The ethical student’: enhancing the teaching of ethics in the undergraduate curriculum’ with Chris Ribchester and Kimberley Ross. Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Student and Staff Motivations and HEA Transitions Conference, Birmingham, July 2011.

‘The ethical student’: enhancing the teaching of ethics in the undergraduate curriculum’ with Chris Ribchester and Kimberley Ross. University of Chester Learning and Teaching Institute Seminar, March 2011.

BSc (University of Sheffield)
MA (University of Sheffield)
MA (University of Chester)
PhD (University of Sheffield)

Professional Affiliations

Royal Geographical Society Fellow (FRGS)
Chair of the Higher Education Research Group (HERG) of the Royal Geographical Society (2018-2021)
Inaugural Co-Editor International Journal for Students as Partners (2016-present)
Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education (2009-present).
‘Directions’ section Co-Editor (2018-present)
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AHEA) (awarded 2008)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) (awarded 2011)
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) (awarded 2014)
National Teaching Fellow (NTF) (awarded 2017)
Inaugural International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL) Fellow (awarded 2019)
International Network for Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education (INLT)