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Dr Tim Herrick

Dr Tim Herrick, Academic Fellow, CILASS
Tim Herrick, Academic Fellow, CILASS
0114 2227004
email: t.herrick@shef.ac.uk

I am currently the Directory of Learning and Teaching Enhancement and Support in the Institute for Lifelong Learning, or TILL. TILL works with mature, part-time undergraduates, and the bulk of my job involves providing support for students and staff, particularly in developing new approaches to teaching and learning. I am also involved in teaching the MEd in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, run by the School of Education, and with other bits and pieces of teaching for Education and TILL. I am generally interested in student support within higher education, and how universities have, historically and socially, come to be the things they are.

My work in CILASS will involve making a collaborative film about how IBL changes traditional relationships between staff and students. I want this to be as wide and broad a project as possible, with participation from students, staff, and other stakeholders in the university. It´s important for the project to be a creative process and artefact, as this seems to me to reflect some of the major changes that come with IBL – students and tutors bringing more of themselves into the learning relationship, non-traditional forms of skills development and academic work, and a valuing of process as well as product. I also want the film to be a record and celebration of the changes that CILASS has facilitated within the institution, and part of an ongoing discussion about how to carry on those innovations.

Alongside my work for CILASS and TILL, I am also involved with The Academic Skills Hub (TASH) project. When not haring around the university from one meeting to another, I am most often found at home, curled up with one of my cats.