Ian Hicklin

Senior University Teaching Fellow

i.hicklin@sheffield.ac.uk

My early 20s were spent operating the sound desk for punk bands throughout Europe. I later qualified as a furniture maker; this led me to study architecture.

I worked with Ian Simpson Architects and for 10 years with MBLA Architects, where I focused on residential, healthcare and Higher Education projects.

The Royal Northern College of Music awarded me Hon RNCM in 2008 in recognition of the architectural services I had provided over many years.

Teaching resource

Feedback, Assessment and Reflection Guide, 2023 - 2024

This guide has been developed to help anyone involved in: receiving and giving feedback, assessment activities and reflection processes. It is a resource for students, staff and guests. The aim is to give people a better understanding of these fundamental areas of learning and teaching, to ensure that everyone can make the most of their education at the Sheffield School of Architecture. Website, Pedagogy, Leo Care, Ian Hicklin and Stuart McKenzie

Co-design workshop

Harnessing the Elements: Towards Zero-carbon Neighbourhoods, March 2021

This online publicly accessible event sought to explore the potential for online platforms as tools for community-led design. In collaboration with The Glass-House Charity, the workshop used the universal elements of earth, air, fire and water as themes for creative co-design activities to explore how we can activate both citizens and the different sectors as collaborative placemakers. Using the area around London Road in Sheffield as a starting point for discussion, we explored how local placemaking can be informed by and drive forward the zero-carbon agenda. This was an active space, where students, practitioners, policymakers and citizens worked together with The Glass-House and with Year 2 students and tutors from The University of Sheffield School of Architecture to explore and co-design creative methods of engagement around the zero-carbon agenda.Designing Sustainable Places - The Glass-House 2020/21 Event SeriesEvent, Digital Learning, Climate Emergency, Participation, Placemaking, Emre Akbil, Ian Hicklin and Leo Care

Dissertation submission for MEd programme

Do you see what I see? 2019

Much has been written about assessment in higher education.Some has been written about assessment in architectural education.Some has been written about what goes on in the mind of a tutor when assessing in higher education (e.g. Sue Bloxham, Sergio Altomonte).Not much has been written about what goes on in the mind of an architecture tutor when assessing studio design work; that is what I propose to do.This project builds in some respects on the work of Prof Bryan Lawson and his studies of ‘What designers know’. The aim is to better understand what we do and how we do it, so that through that understanding, we might do it better, or at least be better able to explain what we do to students so that assessment is not considered to be a mystery withheld by us. The heart of the study is about how students understand what we do when we assess their work or talk about architecture with them in tutorials.Presentation, EDI, Pedagogy, Ian Hicklin

Coursework submissions for MEd programme

Four coursework submissions, 2017

Me as an educator
Assessment in architectural education
Technology Enhanced Learning
Curriculum Design (The map is not the territory)

Presentation, EDI, Pedagogy, Ian Hicklin

Curriculum development fund

Fourteen Videos, 2013

This project was the result of successful bids to the (no longer available) Faculty Curriculum Development Fund. Fourteen videos were developed on the back of the ‘What is it Like at SSoA?’ publication to provide contextualisation of architectural education in other forms.Film, EDI, Pedagogy, Ian Hicklin

A4 - what is it like at SSoA (1).pdf

Curriculum development fund

What is it like at SSoA? 2013

This project was the result of successful bids to the (no longer available) Faculty Curriculum Development Fund. ‘What is it Like at SSoA?’ is effectively a ‘transitions’ handbook intended to help support students through diverse gateways into, through and out of the School.Booklet, EDI, Pedagogy, Participation, Ian Hicklin and Leo Care

Curriculum development fund

Feedback Handbook, 2012

This project was the result of successful bids to the (no longer available) Faculty Curriculum Development Fund. Feedback Handbook was prompted by the School (and University) having dreadful ‘Feedback’ scores in NSS and in-house student satisfaction surveys.Presentation, EDI, Pedagogy, Ian Hicklin

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