Dr Jenny Scoles (SFHEA)

Lecturer (Academic Development)

  • Academic Development
  • Academic Quality and Standards
  • Registry Services, University of Edinburgh

Contact details

Address

Street

Registry
Old College
South Bridge

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9YL

Availability

  • I work Tuesday-Fridays.

Biography

Background

Jenny Scoles is a Lecturer (Academic Development) and leads the Curriculum Design and Teaching Enhancement team in Academic Development. She has worked in Higher Education since 2007, initially in International Education before moving into educational research and academic development roles. Her interest in workplace learning and professional practice underpinned her MRes and PhD in Education Research at the University of Stirling (both Departmental fully-funded qualifications). At Edinburgh Napier University, she has worked on innovative projects in assessment and feedback, peer review of teaching,  and designed the award-winning 'Students as Colleagues in the Review of Teaching Practice' initiative.

She has worked at the University of Edinburgh since 2018 (at the former Institute of Academic Development). She is currently Chief Editor of Teaching Matters, the University's learning and teaching blog, podcast and newsletter, and leads the annual Learning & Teaching Conference. She runs the Board of Studies Network and training across the University, as well as advising Schools on evidence-informed programme and course design. She actively researches in a broad range of pedagogical inquiry, and is peer-reviewer for International Journal of Academic Development, SoTL in the Global South, and Eurpoean Journal of Higher Education.

Qualifications

PhD Education (University of Stirling) 

MRes Educational Research (University of Stirling)

BSc(Hons) Psychology (University of Bath) 

Responsibilities & affiliations

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

CATE recipient (2019)

CAHSS Education committee member

Mentor and assessor for the EdTA

Student Partnership Agreement panel member

Deputy TEAL for NTF/CATE

Member of Scottish Higher Education Developers network committee

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Areas of interest for supervision

Interdisciplinary education

Research summary

Interdisciplinary learning and teaching; sociomaterial and postdigital methods; student-staff partnership; collaborative autoethnography; impact and evaluation in learning and teaching; academic blogging; climate change pedagogy; and ungrading. 

Current research interests

Leading two longitudinal research projects co-researched with undergraduate students: 1. 'Trusting the process' - following inaugral cohort of 'MA Interdisciplinary Futures' students through their 4 year-programme and into employment to explore how interdisciplinary learning and teaching is enacted in practice. 2. 'Facing the Infinite Storm' - longitudinal study working with students as partners in exploring climate crisis pedagogy and civic action.

Past research interests

Assessment and Feedback; workplace learning; educational psychology.

Knowledge exchange

Visiting Fellow - Edinburgh Napier University (2022-2026)

Seconded Fellow - Edinburgh Futures Institute (2023-4)

Utrecht University knowledge exchange (2019)

Guest lecturer - Digital Literacies, City University London (2021-present)

 

Current project grants

Currently co-investigator on two Principal Teaching Award Scheme projects:
'Closing the Net' - aligning University Curricula with Net Zero Skills; and
'Cultivating Citizen Scholars' - exploring interdisciplinary learning and teaching for lifelong learning in the Centre for Open Learning.

Past project grants

Previous Principal Teaching Award Scheme projects:
'Crossing the line' - researching interdisciplinary learning and teaching in undergraduate programme at Edinburgh Futures Institute, and
'Conversations, community and collegiality: Exploring the effect of blogging on teaching and learning practice' (PI) - exploring practices of sharing practice and impact through academic blogging.

Teaching Fellow-funded projects at Edinburgh Napier University:
Assessment and feedback (use of feedfoward and exemplars in exams), and
Peer review of teaching as student-staff partnership

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