Dr Louise Connelly
Lecturer in Academic Development
Contact details
Address
- Street
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The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and The Roslin Institute
Easter Bush Campus
Midlothian - City
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Background
Louise Connelly is a Senior Lecturer in Academic Development at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. Louise provides pedagogical advice and develops digital resources for the Animal Welfare Centre (which incorporates The Jeanne Marchig International Centre for Animal Welfare Education). She delivers a number of workshops and manages the planning of the Veterinary Medical Education Division calendar of events for teaching colleagues; is responsible for the R(D)SVS suite of MOOCs; and teaches on undergraduate and MSc courses, focusing on e-professsionalism, animals and society (religion, death and grief), and social media related to various contexts (planetary health, One Health, and animal welfare); as well as research ethics (including AI). Louise is Convenor of the Human Ethical Review Committee (HERC); Chair of the Staff Development (SupportEdu) Committee and Co-Chair (Education) of the Career Development Committee. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).
Her research focuses on academic development; AI in the curriculum; social media (in different contexts); animal welfare; anthrozoology; digital religion; and research ethics.
Qualifications
- MA (Hons) Religious Studies, University of Edinburgh
- MSc Information Management & Library Studies, Robert Gordon University
- PGDip Digital Education, University of Edinburgh
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Edinburgh
Professional Qualifications
- MAC - Member of Association of Coaching
- SFHEA - Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
- Prince2 Project Management
- Certificate in Marketing, Chartered Institute of Marketing
- Certified Member of the Association of Learning Technologists, CMALT
Responsibilities & affiliations
- Convenor of the Human Ethical Review Committee (HERC) at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
- Chair - Staff Development (SupportEdu) Committee
- Co-chair (Education) - Career Development Committee (Easter Bush Campus)
Committee membership
- PGT Learning & Teaching Committee
- BVM&S Learning & Teaching Committee
- Quality Assurance Committee - R(D)SVS
- EMREC Public Health - R(D)SVS representative
- Easter Bush Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Resource List Group - R(D)SVS representative
HEA
- Edinburgh Teaching Award (EdTA) Mentor and Assessor
- R(D)SVS HEA mentor & programme co-lead
Undergraduate teaching
BVM&S Curriculum:
- Professional & Clinical Skills - 'professionalism, social media, and AI'
- Student Research Component (SRC) - Research ethics
Postgraduate teaching
- MSc One Health
- MSc Planetary Health
- MSc International Animal Welfare, Ethics and Law
- MSc Cinical Animal Behaviour
- MSc Equine Science
- MSc Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare
- MSc Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia
Lecture topics include research ethics (online research; AI and research; secondary data); euthanasia and religion; religion and culture; death and grief; planetary health and social media; and animals in society (hybrid cats - popularity and animal welfare; wolves - victim or villain).
Research summary
Principal Investigator for the PTAS funded 'Managing Your Digital Footprint' project (2014-2015). The research aimed to investigate students' digital footprints and use of social media.
Co-investigator for the PTAS funded project "A live pulse": Yik Yak for Understanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment at Edinburgh (2016-2017).
Research interests include: ethics and social media; animals and society; and religion.
Past project grants
2021-2022: Co-investigator for the PTAS funded project "Exploring and engaging with student perceptions of digital citizenship"
2018-2019: Co-investigator for the PTAS funded project "Developing research methods and data analysis course (RMDA): engaging students in curriculum development"
2016-2017: Co-investigator for the PTAS funded project "A live pulse": Yik Yak for Understanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment at Edinburgh.
2014-2015: Principal Investigator for the PTAS funded 'Managing Your Digital Footprint' project. The research aimed to investigate students' digital footprints and use of social media.
2013-2014: Joint-academic lead (UoE) for European Commission project "The changing pedagogical landscape: New ways of teaching and learning and their implications for higher education policy"