Queen Mary Academy Fellowships are high-profile opportunities for staff to develop, share and promote their educational and scholarship practice.
Through this unique scheme, Queen Mary staff can apply for a Fellowship with a remit to address strategic educational needs across the University. Fellows represent the Academy, their School/Institute, Faculty and Queen Mary to internal and external audiences, raising both their own and the institutional academic profile.
As a Queen Mary Academy Fellow:
"QMA Fellowship is an excellent environment to develop your scholarship - very friendly, supportive and inspiring. It opens doors to new ideas, projects and collaboration". — Nicola Georgiou, School of Law
Consider if a Fellowship is right for you. Do you have a specific project that you wish to set up or an area that you want to explore? Book to join one of our information sessions to learn more about the scheme and application process.
It is worth reflecting on the criteria by which Queen Mary Academy Fellowships are awarded and the expectations of Fellows. Support for your project within your School or Institute and the alignment of your project with School/Institute and University-wide strategic aims are key considerations. You may find it helpful to attend a 'Get started with Educational Impact' workshop to learn tools for articulating the strategic goals, outcomes and benefits of your planned project.
If you feel that a Fellowship is right for you, you should approach your Head of School/Institute (and line manager if this is a different person). The agreement of your Head of School or Institute Director is required to release you to undertake a Fellowship.
The Queen Mary Academy can support line managers in any queries they may have about Fellowship arrangements and commitments, but it is expected that conversations about the suitability of the Fellowship from the School/Institute perspective will take place without Queen Mary Academy involvement.
If your School/Institute is supportive of your application, you should complete the Queen Mary Academy Fellowship Application Form [ODT 9KB] and send it to qmacademy@qmul.ac.uk by Monday 6th January 2025.
Fellowship applications are considered by a panel, the members of which are nominated by the Vice-Principal (Education). They will look at the suitability of each application, considering:
The Fellowship panel is convened in February. After this meeting, formal buy-out of time will be approved by Heads of School.
“The overall experience of undertaking the Fellowship was highly enriching and a great learning opportunity. It exposed me to colleagues from various departments and faculties, broadening my professional network and perspective"— Lilian Schofield, School of Business and Management
Paraskevi Argyriou, August 2024 - July 2025
Excellence in Student Employability - Focus: Employability and Graduate Attributes
This project aims to explore ways to embed employability and graduate attributes into the curriculum by developing an Employability Framework and ensuring that real-world experiences are embedded in all programmes via the Principles of Programme Design and ongoing programme review and enhancement processes.
Dr Jayne Dennis, July 2024 - July 2025
Excellence in Student Engagement - Focus: Scholarship
This project will identify best practice, predominantly but not exclusively within the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences and Queen Mary, in how to support scholars and enable scholarship activity that has a positive impact on the student experience.
Dr Radhika Desai, April 2024 - March 2025
Excellence in Education - Focus: Curriculum Development
The aim of Radhika's project is to develop and deliver an innovative dental undergraduate programme, co-created with students.
Dr Jo Elliott September 2024 - September 2025
Excellence in Student Engagement - Focus: Individualised learning
Jo has taken up a Learner Engagement Analytics (LEA) Fellowship, with joint responsibility for developing a strategy for and driving forward the uptake and enhancement of LEA
Professor Elizabeth Gillow September 2024 - August 2025
Excellence in Education - Focus: Programme Design
Elizabeth's project will assess the experience of embedding the Principles of Programme Design into a suite of new programmes.
Professor Gerard Hanlon January 2023 - December 2024
Excellence in Education - Focus: Inclusive offer
Gerard’s project seeks to develop a better understanding of how BTEC students learn at college and the transition of BTEC students into university.
Dr Lisa Morrison September 2024 - September 2025
Excellence in Education - Focus: Employability and Graduate Attributes
The Employability Curriculum project seeks to provide a consistent approach to employability in the curriculum.
Dr Usman Naeem May 2024 - May 2026
Usman is academic lead for the use of Learner Engagement Analytics (LEA) at Queen Mary, with specific responsibility for developing a strategy for and driving forward the uptake and enhancement of LEA.
Dr Amiirah Nuckchady October 2024 - October 2025
This project aims to explore ways to embed employability and graduate attributes into the curriculum, with Amiirah's particular focus being on integrating reflective practice and career management skills.
Dr Georgy Petrov, September 2024 - September 2025
Excellence in Student Employability - Focus: Employability Skills
Georgy’s project aims to conduct a comprehensive review of all undergraduate programmes and modules at the School of Business and Management to systematically embed employability skills into the curriculum.
Professor Louise Younie April 2024 - March 2025
Excellence in Student Engagement - Focus: Co-creation
Louise is exploring ways to embed co-creation at the organisational and individual (staff and student) levels, and to increase uptake of co-creation.
Professor Jo Brown, September 2022 - August 2023
Jo's project focussed on the development of educational scholarship at Queen Mary, including scoping the opportunity for a new professional doctorate in Education (EdD)
Dr Stephen Buckingham September 2020 - August 2022
Excellence in Learning Environment - Focus: Technological advances
Stephen worked on providing a central online hub that provides guidance, resources and motivation, as well as the sharing of experiences and good practice, in the shift to blended learning, 2020-2021.
Professor Graham Easton, October 2023 - October 2024
The aim of Graham's project is to support co-creation of the medical undergraduate curriculum with students and real patients, and to develop training and resources for wider use in co-creation projects across Queen Mary University.
Dr Sally Faulkner, August 2023 - July 2024
Excellence in Student Engagement - Focus: Team Based Learning
Sally has taken up a new Learning and Teaching Enhancement Fellowship, working on Team Based Learning (TBL) alongside Peer Led Team Learning (PLTL). Her Fellowship will investigate the implementation of TBL in programmes and measuring its impact in terms of grade outcomes, self-efficacy and confidence development. She will lead on encouraging and supporting the adoption of this new pedagogy at Queen Mary.
Dr Heather Ford October 2023 - October 2024
Excellence in Student Engagement - Student-paced Learning Activities
Heather has taken up a new Learning and Teaching Enhancement Fellowship, and is developing a series of self-paced learning activities to integrate ChatGPT into learners’ coding skillset. Her starting point is the integration of ChatGPT into a module called Climate Change in Practice.
Dr Nicola Georgiou, March 2024 - July 2024
Nicola will be working on a comprehensive review of the LLB curriculum.
Dr Nick Hostettler September 2021 - August 2023
Nick's work explored how seminar teaching practice on a core first year module can better support learning practices and independent studentship.
Dr Lesley Howell February 2021 - August 2024
Excellence in Student Engagement - Focus: Peer-to-peer learning
Lesley is working on embedding Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) into the curriculum.
Dr Jonathan Kennedy January 2023 - August 2024
Excellence in Education - Focus: Active global citizen development
Jonathan is looking at the potential for virtual educational exchanges to improve student access to international opportunities.
Dr Anne Ropiquet October 2023 – October 2024
Excellence in Education-Focus - Interdisciplinary programmes
Anne is exploring frameworks facilitating Interdisciplinarity to promote innovative and cross-disciplinary approaches to education. By fostering collaboration among faculty members and encouraging students to engage with diverse perspectives and knowledge domains, she aims for graduates to be better equipped to address complex real-world challenges.
Dr Lilian Schofield, September 2023 - September 2024
Excellence in Education - Focus: Learning by doing
Lilian has taken up a new Learning and Teaching Enhancement Fellowship, and her work will focus on understanding what works in 'learning by doing’ across disciplines and Faculties.
Dr Sharan Sidhu January 2021 - December 2021
Excellence in Education - Focus: Supportive assessment
Sharan’s project explored whether one or more proctoring methods have potential for use across Queen Mary and if so, whether it should be discipline / subject specific.
Dr James Strong January 2021 - June 2021
James’ project goal was to understand how students’ broader experience of studying at Queen Mary University affects their engagement and attainment.
Dr Daniela Tavasci July 2021 - June 2023
Daniela’s project contributed to diversify the curriculum at Queen Mary and explored how teaching with historical perspectives can be a route for a more inclusive education.
Dr Luigi Ventimiglia August 2023 - August 2024
Excellence in Education - Focus: Inclusive assessment
Luigi is building on his previous fellowship project, the awarding gap tool, to promote diversified assessment and investigate whether it might help to reduce the awarding gaps and contribute to graduate attributes.
Dr Xue Zhou September 2023 - August 2024
Excellence in Student Employability - Focus: Higher-level skill development
The goal of Xue’s project is to provide an extra-curricular opportunity for students at Queen Mary University of London to improve the AI skills and knowledge, as well as to promote the use and adoption of AI technology in their academic and professional pursuits.