Fran Beaton
Senior Lecturer in HE & Academic Practice/PGCHE Programme Director
Profile
Fran's background is in Modern Languages, chiefly German and French but with substantial experience in teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language. Fran joined the University of Kent in 2004, after many years at University of London, Goldsmiths College. She has been involved in designing and teaching on postgraduate teacher education programmes for over fifteen years and has extensive experience of working with teachers in Adult and Community Education. Fran is currently researching into the nature and impact of the support offered to part-time and sessional teachers in Higher Education and is contributing to and co-editing a book on the subject to be published by Routledge in 2012.
- Programme Director and Chief Examiner for Postgraduate Taught Programmes in Education:
- Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education
- Postgraduate Diploma/MA in Higher Education
- Module convenor for:
- Facilitator of the Mentoring Network
- UELT Faculty representative on the Humanities Faculty Learning and Teaching Committee
- Contributing to the work of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education
Fran's publications include work on assessment, student motivation and intercultural communication. She has published a number of articles on teacher education and given conference papers in the UK, Austria, Canada, Germany, Greece, Spain and the US.
Book
Developing Effective Part-time Teachers in Higher Education: New Approaches to Professional Development. Co-edited with Amanda Gilbert, Victoria University, Wellington, NZ. Routledge, due out October 2012.
Book chapters
Anyone Can Do it? Supporting Educational Research in Other Disciplines in The Teaching - Research Interface: Implications for Practice in HE and FE Higher Education Academy Education Subject Centre, September 2008 ISBN (pp 64 – 70) ISBN 978 -1 – 905788 – 81 - 1
Student Attitudes to Learning, Assessment and Accreditation in Assessment and Accreditation for Languages: the emerging consensus? Huebner A, Ibarz T & LaviosaS (eds) 2000 Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research , London ISBN 1902031237
Motivation and expectations of adult language learners in Adults learning languages: a CILT guide to good practice (2004) Harnisch H and Swanton P (eds) 2004 CILT, London ISBN 1904243088
Journal articles
Teaching HE IN FE: Whose Professional Teaching Standards? in Educational Developments issue 7.1 January 2006
Developing new academics’ self-perception as agents of change: a cross-disciplinary case study in Practice and Scholarship of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education vol.3, No 2 October 2008
Refereed conference papers (2005- 2011)
2011 University of Bielefeld, Improving University Teaching conference
Becoming and Belonging: locations and identities for early career teachers
2010 Society for Research in Higher Education annual research conference
Community Building among early career teachers: opportunities and tensions
2010 University of Leed
Mentors and early career teachers; communities and identities
2010 International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) conference, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Academic Developers and Curriculum Development: purposes, perceptions and opportunities
2009 University of Oxford, HSLT Subject Centre conference
The impact of an institutional policy initiative on a group peer assessment project (with Jane Glew)
2009 Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC, Improving University Teaching
Community building with early career academics as innovators: strategies and applications
April 2008 University of Stirling
Anyone can do it? Supporting educational research in other disciplines (with Janice Malcolm)
May 2007 University of Glasgow
Getting out of the subject silo: the educational developer’s role
November 2005 Birmingham City University
Teaching HE programmes in Further Education Colleges: whose professional teaching standards?
Since 2008, Fran has sat as an elected member on SEDA's National Executive, on SEDA's Conference Committee and the editorial board on Educational Developments. In the same year she was appointed to membership of the Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies Subject Centre's Advisory Board. She has been a Specialist Reader for National Teaching Fellowship nominations since 2005. She is currently External Examiner for PGCHE-equivalent programmes at the University of East Anglia and the University of Northampton.
Email: F.M.Beaton@kent.ac.uk
Tel: (+44) (0)1227 824167
Location: Canterbury Campus - UELT - Room 4