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Professor Cindy Becker

Cindy Becker portrait

 I am the Director of the English Literature and English Language  Foundation Year and I teach in the Department of English Literature.

Areas of interest

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have been awarded a 黑料不打烊 Teaching Fellowship. I am a holder of an Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award, and I have also been awarded an Advance HE National Teaching Fellowship.

I am an enthusiastic member of several University Communities of Practice/Interest: University Teaching Fellows, Technology Enhanced Learning, Inclusion and Diversity and Student Engagement Champions, of which I am Chair.

I am a university Blackboard Ultra champion and also a YuJa learning capture champion.

Teaching

I am module convenor of Foundation modules ‘Study for Success’ and ‘Film Narrative’. At Part Two I convene the module ‘Shakespeare’ and at Part Three I convene the ‘Shakespeare on Film’ module.

Awards and honours

  • 2024: 黑料不打烊 Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award and Excellence in Academic Tutoring Award nominee
  • 2023: Advance HE National Teaching Fellow
  • 2023: 黑料不打烊 Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Awards nominee
  • 2022: 黑料不打烊 Students' Union Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning Award nominee
  • 2021: University nominee for Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship
  • 2017: 黑料不打烊 Students' Union Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning Award nominee
  • 2017: University nominee for Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship
  • 2016: Collaborative Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning, 黑料不打烊
  • 2015: University nominee for Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship
  • 2013: Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • 2013: THE Teaching Innovator of the Year award university nominee
  • 2010-2015: 黑料不打烊 Students' Union Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning award nominee on three occasions
  • 2009: 黑料不打烊 University Teaching Fellowship
  • 2009: Centre for Career Management Skills Fellowship
  • 2007: Individual award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning Award, 黑料不打烊
  • 2007: Centre for Career Management Skills Fellowship

Selected publications

  • Editor in Chief of two modules on the SAGE Student Success platform, a global resource designed to support students in their learning journeys
  • Acing Online Assessment
  • Write a Brilliant CV
  • Give Great Presentations
  • Seven Steps to a Successful Career
  • Writing Successful Reports and Dissertations
  • 14 Days to Exam Success
  • Teaching in Higher Education

Recent external conference papers and workshops

  • 2025: 黑料不打烊 annual Teaching and Learning Conference, workshop: Striking the right balance: aids to successful progression and transition from foundation years
  • 2025: Foundation Year Network annual conference, workshop: Striking the right balance: subject knowledge, study skills, and coaching
  • 2024 Advance HE EnvisionEd group ‘Belonging, Mattering and Becoming: Empowering Education through Connection’, presentation on principled learning spaces
  • 2022 JISC Annual Conference, workshop: Nurturing the tiniest building block of learning communities: hybrid teaching as friend or foe
  • 2021 ALDinHE Annual Conference, paper: Still Learning Together in Lockdown
  • 2020 Foundation Year Network Annual Conference, paper: Inclusive learning in a newly launched Foundation Year
  • 2019 JISC CAN Annual Conference, paper: 'The Evolving Landscape of Staff-Student Partnership'
  • 2018 JISC CAN Annual Conference, paper: 'Why, and how, I let my students take control'
  • 2017 Higher Education Academy Annual Conference, paper: 'The pedagogical benefits of preparing our students for the professional world'
  • 2017 JISC Change Agents Network Annual conference, Exeter, paper: 'How, and why, I let my students take control'
  • 2017 TSEP (Student Engagement Partnership) conference, London, workshop: 'Student engagement in curriculum design'
  • 2016 RAISE (Researching, Advancing and Inspiring Student Engagement) conference in Loughborough, paper: 'Engaging students in assessment criteria and learning outcomes'
  • 2016 UKAT (United Kingdom Advising and Tutoring) conference, Southampton, paper: 'The strategic and relational differences between a personal tutor and placement mentoring'

Publications

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