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Professor Philippa Levy

Professor Philippa Levy, Academic Director, CILASS
BA (Hons) (Birmingham); MA (Warwick); MA (Sheffield); PhD (Sheffield)
0114 222 5271
Email: p.levy@sheffield.ac.uk

As Academic Director of CILASS I have overall responsibility for the CETL´s development and research activities, working in close partnership with academic and professional services colleagues across the University. My home department within the University is the Department of Information Studies, where I continue to work on a one-day-per-week basis.

My research interests span the areas of: inquiry-based pedagogies in higher education; networked learning and learner support; educational roles of information specialists; educational development and change facilitation in universities; scholarship of teaching and learning. Publications include:

Levy, P. and Petrulis, R. (forthcoming). First year international students´ experiences of learning through inquiry. Reflecting Education (Special Issue: selected papers from Learning Together 2007, Institute of Education, University of London).

Levy, P., Aiyegbayo, O., Little, S., Loasby, I. and Powell, A. (2008). Designing and sharing inquiry-based learning activities: a LAMS evaluation case study. Final Report to JISC.

Levy, P. (2007). Exploring and developing excellence: towards a community of praxis. In: Skelton, A. (ed). International Perspectives on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education. pp.241-256. London: Routledge.

Levy, P. (2006). `Living´ theory: a pedagogical framework for process support in networked learning. ALT-J, Research in Learning Technology, 14 (3) 225-240.

Levy, P. and Roberts, S. (eds.) (2005). Developing the new Learning Environment: the Changing Role of the Academic Librarian. London: Facet.

Levy, P. (2003). A methodological framework for practice-based research in networked learning. Instructional Science, 31, 87-109.