Nicola Reimann

Honorary Fellow

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Affiliations
Affiliation
Honorary Fellow in the School of Education
Member of the Durham Centre for Academic Development (DCAD)

Biography

Nicola is Associate Professor in Academic Practice, based both in the School of Education and in the Durham Centre for Academic Development (https://www.dur.ac.uk/dcad/forstaff/. Her role focuses on researching learning, teaching and assessment in higher education and educational development for Durham staff, in particular in the context of the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice. She is a qualified school teacher and worked in Modern Foreign Languages (Newcastle University, Sunderland University, Freie Universität Berlin, Open University) before moving into an academic development role. She was involved in conducting initial research on threshold concepts, working with Jan Meyer and Ray Land (http://www.etl.tla.ed.ac.uk//index.html). Prior to joining Durham for the second time, Nicola worked at Northumbria University where she was part of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Assessment for Learning (CETL AfL) team, led postgraduate modules and programmes for staff and Northumbria’s Professional Recognition Scheme accredited by the Higher Education Academy. Nicola's research focuses on assessment and feedback in higher education and the ways in which academics develop as teachers, and she is committed to research which is of direct relevance to higher educational practice and policy.

Nicola leads the Erasmus+ funded Intercultural Reflection on Teaching (IntRef, https://sites.durham.ac.uk/intref/ which develops and investigates innovative methods for reflecting on teaching using video and video-conferencing. In collaboration with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany, Padua University in Italy and Associated Partners, IntRef provides academics with transnational professional development opportunities and academic developers and managers with intercultural approaches to reflection.

Nicola also contributes to the 'Degree Standards' Project (https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/hefce-degree-standards) which focuses on the UK external examining system. The project is working with higher education providers to design, evaluate and deliver generic professional development for external examiners and explores approaches to the calibration of academic standards within subject communities. It is led by Advance HE and managed by the Office for Students.