RUTH HEALEY
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Watch as Ruth Healey discusses student / staff partnerships and the opportunities created by digital education.
Watch as Ruth Healey discusses student / staff partnerships and the opportunities created by digital education.
Profile
Ruth Healey is an Associate Professor in Pedagogy in Higher Education at the University of Chester, United Kingdom where she has been since 2009. In 2016, she also joined Healey HE Consultants. She has actively researched into learning and teaching issues since 2004. Her pedagogic research interests include teaching for social transformations, debates, ethics, and students as partners. Ruth has written over 30 pedagogic papers, chapters and reviews, with her work being cited over 450 times. Ruth’s article about the ‘power of debate’ was short-listed for the Journal of Geography in Higher Education (JGHE) Award for Promoting Excellence in Teaching and Learning 2012-13. She became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in 2014; in 2017 was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship (NTF); and in 2019 was awarded one of nine inaugural fellowships of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSoTL).
She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education (2009-) and is one of the inaugural Editors of the International Journal for Students as Partners (2016-). She is Chair of the Geography and Education Research Group (formally the Higher Education Research Group) of the Royal Geographical.