Sarah Speight
Sarah Speight
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Sarah Speight is Professor of Higher Education and the University of Nottingham's Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and both a National Teaching Fellow (2013) and Principal Fellow (2014) of Advance HE . Sarah is the recipient of a University of Nottingham Lord Dearing Award for excellence in learning and teaching (2006) and a Lord Dearing Fellowship (2011). From 2010 to 2017 she was Academic Director of the Nottingham Advantage Award, the University's initiative to support Undergraduate students develop their life and work skills (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Careers/Students/AdvantageAward/Index.aspx).
Sarah is a member of the Learning Sciences Research Institute (LSRI). She has research interests in the areas of employability and sustainability, particularly as these relate to higher education curriculum and pedagogy. Her research focuses on two areas; the relationship of employability to academic learning within higher education curricula, and sustainability as a dimension of pedagogy and practice in academic programmes.
Sarah served five years as Archaeology editor of Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire (the county's archaeological and historical journal) and three years on the advisory panel of the Archaeology Subject Centre of the Higher Education Academy. She has been a doctoral studentship assessor for the Higher Education Academy, an advisor for the HEA's Green Academy change programme and a member of the expert panel working with the QAA to develop guidance on the integration of Education for Sustainable Development into academic programmes and pedagogy.
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