Dr Sam Chadwick
Senior Learning Technologist
Dr Sam Chadwick is a Senior Learning Technologist within the Centre for Academic Innovation and Development (CAID), having formerly worked with the Learning and Information Services, both as a Learning Technologist for Arts, Media and Humanities, and as the Electronic Resources Library Assistant. He is also a Visiting Lecturer in the UoC History and Archaeology department.
Sam has worked at the University off and on for over 15 years, doing everything from shelving and sorting books, to leading modules.
During the early covid years, Sam as a Learning Technologist presented at the University’s Learning and Teaching conference on projects about encouraging online group work and how heritage can be brought online.
Sam’s areas of interest include Virtual and Augmented Realities, Gamification and creating flexible and easily accessible content.
Recent projects include a remodelling of the online side of the Psychology Masters; a look at AR mapping of Chester with student created audio tours to create both a heritage and tourism archive and a permanent evidence of student’s outstanding work; and a VR google street view of Chester, showing new students and family what is available in the city.
In his History VL role, Sam focuses on the English Civil War, Artillery and “The Crowd” – the movement of repressed and lower class peoples and how their contributions changed the course of history.
At home, Sam is a full-time geek, working on everything from getting the best Xbox Gamerscore, to dressing up in 17th century outfits and duelling in the streets of Italy.
Recent highlights
- How to encourage discussion and scaffold interaction with students online
- MOG and Pedagogy
- VR, AR and the Digital Humanities
- (Upcoming – Working Title) VR, AR and Mapping – Bringing Digital Humanities to the students.
- Siege Mentality (University of Chester, History and Archaeology Research Seminar Series, 2021).
- Outreach - Feast Days and Festivals (U3A, December 2020).
- Siege Mentality (University of Adelaide, Wounds, Weapons and Warfare Interdisciplinary Workshop, 2020).
- Google, GPS and AR: Using Technology to Enhance Learning and Research (University of Chester, Learning and Teaching Institute conference 2020)
- ‘The BBC and the Guide: Using Teams and PowerPoint for Group Assignments’ (University of Chester, Learning and Teaching Institute conference 2020).
- The Castle at the ‘Wales ford’: The Siege of Goodrich Castle (Helion Publishing and University Centre Shrewsbury, Fire and Sword along the Marches, November 2019).
- Outreach - Chester, Cavaliers and Cannons (BBC, History Fringe Sessions, October 2019).
- ‘The Three Sieges of Basing House’ (University of Chester, History and Archaeology conference, May 2017).
- ‘That factious City’ Exeter during the Civil War – A city with two Identities’, (University of Chester, History and Archaeology conference, May 2015).
- ‘Brereton as a besieger’, (University of Chester, History and Archaeology conference, May 2014).
- ‘The Retribution of Chester?’, (University of Chester, History and Archaeology conference, May 2013).
- ‘Ceci n’est pas une balle de mousquest’, (University of Chester, History and Archaeology conference, May 2012).
- (Upcoming – Working Title) The Significance of Artillery in Sieges in the English Civil Wars.
- That factious City’ Exeter during the Civil War – A city with two Identities.’ Context, 2 (Chester: University of Chester Press, 2015), pp 19-29.
- ‘Chester under Siege: An old city under fire from a new technology’ Context, 1 (Chester: University of Chester Press, 2014), pp. 22-31.l, Issue 1, 2014.
- PhD – University of Chester
- MA – University of Chester
- BA – University of Chester