Julie is a Principal Teaching Fellow and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). She is a leader of education who has worked in the field for over thirty-seven years.
She qualified as a primary teacher in 1988 with a BEd (Hons) in biological sciences and worked in Hampshire and Southampton schools for the next 19 years as a class teacher, subject and year lead. She began working at the University of Southampton in 2008, initially on a FdA programme, Working with Children and then on the PGCE (Primary).
Julie pursued her passion for teaching beginning teachers to teach through completion of an MSc in Teacher Education at Oxford. Her final year action research project focused on supporting teacher development by encouraging deep reflection through scaffolded video analysis.
She is privileged to have led groups of students abroad to give them insight into other countries’ education systems. She has taken PGCE beginning teachers to Nakuru in Kenya to teach in areas of extreme poverty, and accompanied a group of students to St. Paul’s school in Gorakhpur, India.
