Principal Responsibilities

Samantha's role is based at SSPSSR in Canterbury but she also provides support to colleagues at the Medway campus. She will also facilitates school-wide projects.

Her main duties include:

• Contribution to the department's development of an information and publicity strategy including the production of both print and electronic materials.
• School webmaster
• Responsible for the development of eLearning in the department - particularly the use of WebCT/moodle
• ePortfolio projects
• Responsible for departmental IT strategy.
• IT support
• Team leader for Higher Education Academy 2009 Discipline-focused Learning Technology Enhancement Academy project Linking Reflective learning, PDP and Employability through the use of ePortfolios (Subject centre : ESCalate)

Conference papers/posters:

• South East Education Consortium professional development event 'E-Portfolios: Employability or Engagement?' – keynote speaker December 2007 “E-Portfolio Stories around practice: Collaborative e-portfolios for assessment of practice in Social Work”
• Telling Stories conference, University of Wolverhampton, “Webfolios for Assessment of Practice in Social Work Degrees (with co-presenters Louise Frith / Ruben Martin) 5 June 2008
• Conference poster (with Anne Logan): Linking employability and Personal Development Planning through the use of ePortfolios. LDHEN 6th Annual Conference. Bournemouth April 2009.
• Telling Stories conference, University of Wolverhampton, "The next chapter: how embedding e-Portfolios in the Social Work programme has enhanced partnership relationships for students, practitioners and the institution" (with co-presenter Ruben Martin 10-11 June 2009)
• Researching & Evaluating PDP and e-Portfolios International Seminar 2010, Centre for Recording Achievement NCSL Nottingham, "Linking PDP, employability and online learning – the Kent experience" (with co-presenter Kate Bradley, 26-28 April 2010)

Publications:

• Osborne, S., Martin, R. and Frith, L. (2009)  Using ePortfolios to evidence Practice Learning for Social Work students in J. O'Donoghue, ed., Technology Supported Environment for Personalised Learning: Methods and Case Studies
• Using collaborative e-portfolios to record reflective practice on placements published 13 March 2008 (Case study for Centre for Recording Achievement)

Websites:

Designer and maintainer of:

• Culturalcriminology.org
• Parenting Culture Studies plus ESRC Seminar subsite

Maintainer of:

• SSPSSR
• CPHSJ
• MASC
• Cultural Studies
• TSEP
  

Blogs:

• Departmental IT Support
• Employability and PDP