Program

This event will take place on Tuesday, May 20, 2014.

Featuring: Dr. Mick Healey, Higher Education Consultant and Researcher, UK

Mick Healey is an HE Consultant and Researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. Until 2010 he was Director of the Centre for Active Learning, a nationally funded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. He has held an Honorary Professorship at the University of Queensland, an adjunct Professorship at Macquarie University and Visiting Professorships at Edinburgh Napier University and the University of South Wales and an International Teaching Fellowship at University College Cork. He was one of the first people in the UK to be awarded a National Teaching Fellowship and to be made a Principal Fellow of the HE Academy. He recently received a SEDA@20 Legacy Award for Disciplinary Development. Mick is an experienced presenter and since 1995 he has given over 500 educational presentations in 18 different countries. He has written and edited over 150 papers, chapters, books and guides on various aspects of teaching and learning in HE. He was co-editor of the International Journal for Academic Development (2010-13) and is currently co-editor of the International Desk of the Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly. He is often asked to act as an advisor to projects, universities and governments on aspects of teaching and learning. For example, in 2006 he advised the Canadian Federal Government on Research, Teaching and Learning in post-Secondary Education. He has given invited presentations at 15 Canadian Universities.

This event is open to interested students, faculty, and administrators from post-secondary institutions in Western Canada. Registration is required for planning purposes and to cover the cost of lunch.

For additional information please contact the Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Mount Royal University: sotlinstitute@mtroyal.ca or 403.440.5503.