Associate Head of School IFY/CAS/SAEX
As a Principal Lecturer/Associate Head of School in the School of Social Sciences and Law, my duties include management of the Integrated Foundation Year Programme (IFY), Customised Awards Scheme (CAS), and Study Abroad/Exchange Scheme (SAEX).
My degree is in Business Computing and my postgraduate degree is in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
I am a Senior Fellow of Advance Higher Education (SFAHE), an accredited Workplace Mediator, and a member of the Staff Mentoring Scheme.
My research interests are in student engagement, student support, and IT/eLearning.
Teaching and supervision
I teach FDN012 Essential Study Skills and supervise Stage 3 projects under LLS modules.
Research interests for potential research students
I am particularly interested in student support and engagement, IT, and eLearning.
Research
I am particularly interested in student support and engagement, IT, and eLearning. Working in partnership with students, I developed a Student Led Induction Event, ‘CSP/CAS Survival’, which ran annually in Freshers' Week alongside the CSP/CAS team induction activities.
The Survival event was led by current CSP/CAS student volunteers to support new students in their transition to higher education and to welcome them to the CSP/CAS family. This event now runs annually in the Integrated Foundation Year (IFY) programme and has been renamed the IFY Champion's Event.
Publications
Conference or Workshop Item
Cook, Freda and Lambton, Anne (2019) 'Appyness': A creative tool for pedagogical engagement. In: University of Sunderland Resarch Conference, June 2019, University of Sunderland. (Unpublished)
Dawson, Maria, Cook, Freda and Lambton, Anne (2014) 'Active Engagement Strategies: Students as Co-creators of Knowledge'. In: EDULEARN14: 6th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 7-9 Jul 2014, Barcelona, Spain.
Dawson, Maria and Cook, Freda (2013) Student Support in Education: You get out what you put in. In: 6th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 18 - 19 Nov 2013, Seville, Spain.
- Canvas
- Digital learning and teaching
- Student transitions/support
- Programme management
- Creating customised degree courses
- Senior Fellow of Advance Higher Education (SFAHE)
- Accredited Workplace Mediator
- Member of the Staff Mentoring Scheme
- SuPA (Sunderland University Professional Award) Panel Assessor