Charlene Gallery (School of Natural Sciences) for ‘Flexible learning and digital delivery’

Charlene is a Reader in the Department of Materials (Fashion Business and Technology) and Employability Lead for Fashion Business & Technology. Charlene was nominated for a Teaching Excellence Award on the basis of her exceptional work to embed and enhance student digital capabilities and employability over recent years. Her innovative initiatives to transform the teaching and learning experience are too many to list here, but they include: developing the University’s first public-facing graduate online portfolio which has impacted 350 students to date and which also serves as a valuable tool for placements and graduate interviews, while also raising the external profile of the degree programmes to enhance outreach and recruitment; creating diverse technical teaching resources which reduce staff workloads while enabling students to acquire digital skills at their own pace; conducting extensive research with industry partners to identify and address digital literacy gaps within the curriculum; establishing a student knowledge exchange partnership with global organisation, Pentland Brands. Charlene’s sustained work on transforming student employability through collaborative curriculum development has also made an outstanding contribution to the university’s flexible learning and digital delivery agenda.