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Inspiring teaching has always been important to me.
I believe in teaching excellence in HE, in research-led teaching, inspiring students to explore new horizons, develop new skills, in helping students to succeed, mentoring them. Over the years I taught students at many universities and I took the opportunity to develop new approaches to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, such as new forms of formative and summative assessments, to include embedded employability skills, experiment with flipped learning techniques, and use various E-learning tools, like VLE and Panopto. |
From 2013 to 2019, I also had the chance to teach distance learners from across the world (for MA programmes in Ancient Religions, Ancient history, Classics, Latin/Greek, Celtic Studies) and new approaches are always necessary an important to engage with distance learners, for example by live-streaming lectures.
My approach is always multidisciplinary, combining archaeology and ancient history with theoretical, anthropological and sociological approaches. Supporting students at all levels, inspriring them, has always been important to me. |
Wow! 'Lecturer of the Year 2019' -
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Promoting Undergraduate Research
I find it important to support students in their research projects. Many students work on fascinating projects and provide excellent results, even 2nd and 3rd-year BA students. For example, in March 2019, the only two undergraduates from a Welsh university to present their research posters at this year's "Posters in Parliament" event were Charlotte Stone and Rebecca Calder; they had produced excellent posters on their own independent research as part of my module "Romano-Celtic Religions" in October 2018: Charlotte worked on the goddess Brigid/Brigantia and Rebecca on Nemetona!
Congratulations to both of them for having been selected to this prestigious event! In April 2019, Elizabeth Webster, one of my MA Classics students, was presenting her research at the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference in Canterbury; Elizabeth and I also gave a joint paper at TRAC2019 on the theme of 'Creolage'. And Matt Baker endulged in an experimental archaeology project: reconstructing the Roman saddle for his BA dissertation. And Eleanor Travers produced an excellent dissertation on the phenomenology of private houses in Pompeii. |
Taking students on fieldtrips: exploring the Roman sites of the south of France, 1st-7th April 2019
As part of the Heritage, Regional History and Archaeology 2nd/3rd-year module at Lampeter, the 2019 fieldtrip was devoted to the south of France - in prehistoric, Roman and medieval times; special emphasis on heritage issues and museology.
Instead of on-site student-presentations, I asked each student to produce a 10-minute video documentary. Impressive results! Some videos were quite professional! Main sites we visited: Nîmes, Arles, Glanum, Pont-du-Gard, Les Baux-de-Provence, Orange and Avignon in just 7 days! |
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