Mr Neil Ford

My role as an academic developer is staff facing and I occassionally provide sessions for our PGCAP programme, as well as providing workshops for our CPD workshop programme.

I joined the Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHEP) in 2022 as a Prinicpal Teaching Fellow (Academic Development) and am focusing on developing faculty liaison and communities of practice. I currently chair the Programme Leads Network and Uni-Wide Transitions Networks and actively support other networks including the Education Focused Staff Network and Peer Support Network.

I worked in Southampton Business School Education Development Office as a Senior Teaching Fellow (Education Development) from 2016 and was promoted to Principal Teaching Fellow in 2019. Prior to this I led the academic liaison team in Library and Learning Support at Bournemouth University.

I completed my MSc. Information and Library Studies at University of Wales Aberystwyth in 2008 and have since completed a PG Cert in Education Practice and achieved Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).

I am interested in a number of themes in education and learning development, including: student partnership and co-creation; digital and information literacies; academic peer learning schemes such as PAL or PASS; transition to higher education, assessment and feedback. I am an active scholar and have a number of peer reviewed publications and conference presentations around these themes.

Whilst at Bournemouth University, I was responsible for leading the development of study skills support including the coordination of a large peer learning scheme, which trained over three hundred second and final year students to deliver timetabled, group-learning sessions to first years.