Meet the Facilitators

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The AHSS Digital Learning Team will facilitate your Student-Staff Co-Design Process from start to finish. They bring their pedagogical and digital expertise to the Co-Design workshops and also offer an unbiased facilitation where they will help to (1) lead the conversation(s), (2) set expectations and (3) provide support at all stages of the process.

The members of the AHSS Digital Learning Team share expertise in a range of curriculum design, platform and assessment fields (please see image below) and each member can lend speciality knowledge and experience, where appropriate, based on their own professional backgrounds (see Speciality Areas for more details).

Where relevant, the team may suggest asking another colleague to get involved in your Co-Design process if the topic of focus might benefit from this colleague's area of speciality. A few people are mentioned below in the Further Support section.

AHSS Digital Learning Team

Laura Farling

AHSS Digital Learning Developer

Kirsty Gillen

AHSS Digital Learning Developer

Speciality Areas

Internationalisation and International Students
TESOL and Language Teaching
Music and Music Technology
Audio and Sound Design (incl. Podcasting)
Creative Arts

Canvas Administration
Creative Media
Video Editing
QSIS (QUB Student information system)
Digital Wellbeing

Laura has 10+ years experience of teaching international students at Foundation and Higher Education Level. Within her previous teaching role she specialised in Assessment Design and online/digital course development.

Laura has taught a variety of students from a range of cultural backgrounds and has a deep understanding of international student needs.

Her qualifications and experience in music and music technology has led to many opportunities for creative media projects, such as song/audio design, podcasting, and video editing.

Qualifications: MA TESOL and BA Music

Kirsty is an experienced Learning Developer with a demonstrated history of working in the higher/further education industry.

Kirsty's areas of expertise fall into the categories of Creative Media, Educational Technology, Training Delivery, Adobe Photoshop, and VLEs such as Canvas and Blackboard.

Her experience in course design lends well to this Co-Design Process, as she has a deep understanding of pedagogical and creative learning design.

Qualifications: Bachelor of Science - BS focused in Creative Computing.

Further Support

Rachel Gamble

AHSS Digital Learning Team Administrator & Co-Facilitator

About Rachel

Rachel has vast experience in Events Management and has been responsible for liaison with Schools and Institutes, of the AHSS Faculty Summer School offering, at both a strategic and operational level, to develop and grow the provision. She has been overseeing the non-academic planning and running of the programmes and so offers a good insight into administration and organisation of online and digital tools for communication and teaching purposes.

Rachel is also the lead on the development of Short Term Study programmes within AHSS and has run several very successful events with partnership institutions aiming to develop positive student experience.

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