Sheffield Engineering Leadership and Service Award (SELSA) is a leadership development programme for undergraduate students in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sheffield.
Inspired by the acclaimed Gordon Leadership Programme at MIT, SELSA addresses the UK skills gap in engineering by supplementing the outstanding technical knowledge of the University of Sheffield engineering graduates with the skills, confidence and aptitude to take the lead and make a positive impact.
This programme is developed and delivered by a small team within the Faculty of Engineering.
Liz Taylor - Head of Delivery
Liz completed her degree in Business Technology and has a PGCert in Leadership, Coaching and Mentoring. She is currently completing a PhD in Embedding Employability within Academic Advising. Liz has worked within University of Sheffield since 2010 and she was part of the team that designed SELSA in 2013/4 and has been involved with SELSA ever since. She even ran the first session at the first ever bootcamp in September 2014!
Liz loves working with students and has won accolades such as Student Employer of the Year (SEOTY) and University Advisor of the Year (Enactus). She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
When Liz isn't doing SELSA, she is the Employability Advisor at SUMS (Sheffield University Management School), where she supports students to develop their skills as well as supporting academics to embed employability within the curriculum. As part of this, she supported a team of students to win the Global Masters Challenge.
She is also a Beaver Scout Leader and supports 6-8 year olds to develop skills for life, including fire lighting, dam building as well as leadership skills.
Why does she love SELSA? She loves seeing students push themselves to develop their capabilities. They make what seems impossible, possible. As Ralph Waldo Emerson says, "As It's the journey, not the destination"....
Michael Wright - Project Manager
Michael joined the University of Sheffield as Faculty Teaching Experience Officer in 2014 and has worked in Higher Education since 2006.
He currently supports the Faculty of Engineering’s Interdisciplinary Project Weeks, and manages the Faculty Programme and Module Evaluation Survey.
He also provides support to the Faculty Continuing Professional Development programme, ‘Engineering and Teaching Shorts’ (EATS), and Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL).
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