Principal Lecturer in Teaching and Learning
I am Principal Lecturer in Teaching and Learning.
I support teaching and learning across the University through working with the Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT).
Before joining the University in 2004, I taught in primary schools across Sunderland and Washington. I taught all years in primary education phases including early years. I love teaching and specialised in mathematics before doing a master's in Children's Literature which led to me leading literacy here within the teacher education courses.
I teach here with the same passion that I had when teaching in schools. I specifically enjoy looking at areas like critical thinking and academic literacies.
Teaching and supervision
Research interests for potential research students
Research
My PhD lies in the areas between gender, social class and culture. My current research is in teaching and learning in HE, social justice, social class and gender. I like to bring together areas of research and practice so there can be benefits combined from both.
My research interests grow as I am involved more in teaching and learning activities across the University. I am particularly interested in the use of visual resources to stimulate critical thinking.
Publications
Article
Murphy, Denis, Gilligan, Kim and Watson, Derek (2021) From the community handywomen to frontline heroes: Charting a century of Irish nursing and midwifery regulation. Journal of the Institute of Public Administration of Ireland, 69 (3). pp. 19-43. ISSN 2449-9471
Conference or Workshop Item
Hayes, Catherine, Barkas, Linda Anne, Fulton, John and Gilligan, Kim (2022) Autobiography versus Autoethnography as Praxis Based Methodologies. In: 8th International Conference on Professional & Practice Based Doctorates, March 30th - 31st 2023, York Racecourse.
Gilligan, Kim (2012) Identity and Subjectivity in an age of neoliberal political agendas: Who belongs. In: The Child and the Book Conference - Towards common ground: Philosophical Approaches to children's literature., 30 Mar - 1 Apr 2012, Cambridge University. (Unpublished)
Gilligan, Kim (2009) Globalisation in teenage fiction texts. In: Children’s Literature and Cultural Diversity in the Past and the Present.19th Biennial Congress of IRSCL Institut fur jugendbuchforschung, 8 - 12 Aug 2009, Goethe Universistat Frankfurt. (Unpublished)
