Karen Smith Author & Editor

Joy Jarvis is currently Professor of Educational Practice at the University of Hertfordshire and a UK National Teaching Fellow. She has experience in a wide range of education contexts and works to create effective learning experiences for students and colleagues. She is particularly interested in the professional learning of those engaged in educational practice in higher education settings and has undertaken a range of projects, working with colleagues locally, nationally and internationally, to develop practice in teaching and leadership of teaching. Joy works with doctoral students exploring aspects of educational practice and encourages them to be adventurous in their methodological approaches and to share their findings in a range of contexts to enable practice change.

Karen Clark is programme leader of a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education at the University of Hertfordshire, which attracts colleagues from every academic school at the institution. She is engaged with a range of work involving professional learning and recognition, curriculum development and staff-student collaboration. She draws on conversations about teaching both formal and informal in many different contexts from peer review, programme development and teaching observation to lunch groups and chats fueled by coffee and cake.

Karen Smith leads collaborative research and development in the School of Education, at the University of Hertfordshire, where she engages in externally funded research and evaluation and supports teachers to develop scholarly approaches to their practice through engagement in practitioner research. Karen’s research interests are centred around how higher education policies and practices impact on those who work and study within the university system. She is a Trustee of the Society for Research in Higher Education, co-convenes the Higher Education Policy Network and contributes to their professional development sessions with a workshop on publishing learning and teaching research. Karen was recognised as a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in August 2017.