Staff Champions
Below is a list of colleagues from across the Faculty you can approach to seek guidance and advice regarding online teaching. Each individual has highlighted a theme or tool they have used recently, and are happy to share advice on their experience of utilising these tools in online teaching.
We also encourage colleagues to use TALON (Teaching and Learning Online Network) yammer group to ask questions or seek guidance from those across the University. If your query is more technical focused, we advise you speak to the eLearning team, or consult the FAQs.
If you think you could offer some guidance and advice to colleagues in relation to online teaching, and would like to be a Champion, please email rosie.haynes@manchester.ac.uk
| Name | Role | Advice theme: | |
| Mandi Banks Gatenby SEED |
Lecturer in Digital Technologies | abg@manchester.ac.uk | Tools for asynchronous video and screencasts (Adobe Express, Loom etc) Assessment tools (e.g. mindmeister, RMCompare) |
| Ralf Becker SoSS |
Senior Lecturer in Economics | Ralf.becker@manchester.ac.uk | Discussion boards, writing of automatically graded questions in Mobius, Interactive textbook resource in Mobius |
| Becki Bennett SoSS |
Professor of Bioethics | rebecca.bennett@manchester.ac.uk |
Teacher presence and creating a community of learners |
| Philip Black SEED |
Senior Lecturer in Urban Design | philip.black@manchester.ac.uk | Teaching (and assessing) graphical/visual material (e.g. design software; large format layout; sketching etc) online |
| Wendy Bottero SoSS |
Reader in Sociology | wendy.bottero@manchester.ac.uk | Getting started for novices in e-learning |
| Hannah Cobb SALC |
Associate Director for eLearning, SALC Senior Lecturer in Archaeology |
Hannah.Cobb@Manchester.ac.uk | Guidance on all areas of online teaching. Sign up to Hannah's weekly office hour here. |
| Rupert Cox SoSS |
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology and Department of Anthropology | rupert.cox@manchester.ac.uk | The Granda Center for Visual Anthrophology has significant experience delivering practical skills (in visual and audio media) through on-line and blended learning methods. Please contact Rupert with your query. |
| Andrew Irving SoSS |
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology and Department of Anthropology | andrew.irving@manchester.ac.uk | Audiovisual advice |
| Ekaterina Kazak SoSS |
Lecturer in Economics | ekaterina.kazak@manchester.ac.uk | Gradescope Padlet |
| Claire McGourlay SoSS |
SoSS Director of External Relations | claire.mcgourlay@manchester.ac.uk | Webinars (or just a chat about what not to do) Adobe Express |
| Scott Midson SALC |
Programme Director, Liberal Arts | scott.midson@manchester.ac.uk |
Adobe Express |
| Nadim Mirshak SoSS |
Deputy Head of Sociology | nadim.mirshak@manchester.ac.uk | Blackboard course design Mentimeter Padlet |
| Huw Morgan AMBS |
Senior Lecturer in Accounting | huw.morgan@manchester.ac.uk | Blackboard quizzes Camtasia |
| Nicky Nielsen SALC |
Senior Lecturer in Egyptology | nicky.nielsen@manchester.ac.uk | Lecture recording Podcasts |
| Dan Rigby SoSS |
Professor in Economics | dan.rigby@manchester.ac.uk |
Camtasia |
| Jennifer Rose AMBS |
Lecturer in Accounting | Jennifer.Rose@Manchester.ac.uk |
Assessment, including active feedback (where students write feedback for themselves) and Freirean (dialogic) teaching |
| Sofia Izquierdo Sanchez SoSS |
Senior Lecturer in Economics | sofia.izquierdosanchez@manchester.ac.uk |
Using social networks in teaching (such as Instagram). Group work. |
| Mark Shepherd SEED |
Senior Lecturer in Real Estate | mark.shepherd@manchester.ac.uk |
Podcasting and recording lecture, audio feedback, blended learning design |
| Chris Smith AMBS |
Lecturer in Operations, Critical Systems and Supply Chain Management | christopher.smith@manchester.ac.uk | Flipped Class In Class Quiz (Turning Point/Socrative) |
| Abi Stone SEED |
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography | abi.stone@manchester.ac.uk |
Connecting asynchronous and synchronous learning content, |