Teaching

~Lecturer, MA in Library and Information Studies, UCL ~

~ PGCert and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) ~

~ Academic Tutor for the department's teaching assistants, Department of Information Studies, UCL ~

I am a passionate and enthusiastic teacher of library and information science. I have a particular expertise in teaching information description, knowledge organization and music information. Developing thinking and fostering deeper understanding are my primary aims as a teacher, and linking the "why" with the "what" is a particular goal of my cataloguing teaching. As a researcher, I am very interested in how education theories, such as Pedagogical Content Knowledge and taxonomies of learning, can be used to understand how we teach information organization. I have experience of designing teaching for the physical classroom and for an online environment.

Getting ready for a cataloguing workshop at City, University of London

Selected higher education teaching

Module leader: responsible for designing, delivering and assessing the "Cataloguing and classification" and "Knowledge organisation" modules 2021--, MA in Library and Information Studies, Universty College London

Personal tutor: MA in Library and Information Studies, University College London

Dissertation supervisor: MA in Library and Information Studies, University College London

PGTA Academic tutor: responsible for mentoring and supporting teaching assistants across the department, including providing introductions to teaching and assessment as required, Department of Information Studies, University College London

Subject coordinator (equivalent to module leader): responsible for delivering teaching and managing the assessments for the "Metadata for Resource Discovery" subject (delivered online), Bachelor in Information Studies, June-October 2020, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Visiting lecturer: responsible for delivering and assessing the “Information management and policy” module, 2019-2020, MA/MSc Library and Information Science, City, University of London

Visiting lecturer: responsible for designing, delivering and assessing the “Information organisation” module, 2017-2020, MA/MSc Library and Information Science, City, University of London

Guest lecturer: “Information Organisation” module, 2012-2017, MA/MSc Library and Information Science, City, University of London

Guest lecturer: “Information Resources and Documentation” module, 2012-2020, MA/MSc Library and Information Science, City, University of London

Designed and delivered one-day cataloguing workshops for MA/MSc Library and Information Science students, 2014-2020, as Guest lecturer, City, University of London

Plus experience as Teaching assistant and Marker on various modules for Computer Science and LIS, at City, University of London

Selected professional teaching

CILIP onsite trainer (April 2016 until December 2018): “Cataloguing principles and practice”, “An introduction to Dewey Decimal Classification” and “Introduction to RDA”

Wrote online course for CILIP VLE “Introduction to cataloguing”

Substantial experience of designing and delivering cataloguing and classification education at the Courtauld Institute of Art, including designing curricula, creating teaching materials and developing learning activities

Worked with colleagues to deliver user education and teach information literacy at the Courtauld Institute of Art

Delivered sessions at various ARLIS workshops about art cataloguing/classification

Deliver cataloguing and classification training on a consultancy basis