Dr Vicky Gunn
- Director (Learning and Teaching Centre Administrative Support)
email: Victoria.Gunn@glasgow.ac.uk
Current research areas
Dr Vicky Gunn is the Director of Learning and Teaching Centre at the University of Glasgow. She has been the principle investigator on three Scottish Enhancement Themes' projects:
- Research-Teaching Linkages: Enhancing Graduate Attributes in the Humanities and Social Sciences;
- Research-Teaching Linkages and Graduates for 21st Century;
- Employability and Graduates for the 21st Century;
She was also the research lead on the University of Glasgow's Graduate Attributes project (2009-2012). More recently she has been the research lead in a Higher Education Academy (HEA) funded project exploring internationalisation and the graduate attributes agenda, as well as a QAA Scotland funded institutional project on Approaches to Curriculum Mapping and Blueprinting for Efficient and Effective Assessment. Her current research projects are focused on teaching excellence in higher education and she is principle investigator on the HEA funded teaching excellence literature review project.
She welcomes PhD students in the following areas:
- Graduate attributes, work-related learning, and research-teaching linkages
- Applied Humanities
- Emotional and psycho-social processes in student learning
- Teaching excellence in Higher Education
- Equality and diversity in Higher Education learning environments
- Church history in queer theology
Invited International Research and Conference Presentations
- Assessment for Competencies Needed for After Graduation: Liberal Arts – more than a disciplinary training? With Qualters, D. (Tufts University) NEASC Annual Conference, Boston, USA (Dec 2012).
- Developing Global Leadership Attributes through Research-Teaching Linkages. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (Nov 2012)
- ‘Curriculum renaissances from the top to the bottom: graduate attributes, student researchers and the development of curriculum renewal agendas.’ University of Sydney, Australia (Nov 2012)
- Do research-teaching linkages have anything to do with our students’ working lives after university? (And should they?), Karolinska Institute, Sweden (Sept 2012)
- Graduate Attributes, work-related learning and the links between research & teaching. Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, Baku, Azerbaijan (June 2012).
- Research-teaching linkages and enhancing graduate attributes? Uppsala University, Sweden (December 2010).
- Graduate Attributes? Engaging in institutional quality enhancement of graduate attributes through a student-led enquiry project. With: Gibbings, A., MacPherson, K., Oleinika, K., & Wightwick, J. at Institutional Research: Informing Institutional Enhancement, Practice & Strategy, Higher Education Institutional Research Network Conference, Dublin City University, Dublin (June 2010)
- The role of research-teaching linkages in enhancing graduate attributes within the Arts and Social Sciences: A Scottish Perspective, European Association of Research into Learning Instruction Conference, Amsterdam (August 2009).
- Wissenschaftsideologie through a post-modern lens? European university history, academic development and the search for research-teaching linkages. KU Leuven, Belgium(October, 2008).
Funded projects
Principle investigator, One Glasgow Equality and Diversity Project: When Faith meets Queer Does there always have to be Conflict? (2009-10)
Project director, QA Scotland Quality Enhancement Theme: Graduates for the 21st Century and Employability (August 2009-2010)
Project director, QA Scotland Quality Enhancement Theme: Graduates for the 21st Century and Research-Teaching Linkages (August 2009-2010)
Project director, QA Scotland Quality Enhancement Theme: Research-Teaching Linkages in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (February 2007-March 2008).
Project partner, Developing Moodle (VLE) Resources for Beginners' Medieval Latin', grant from: Higher Education Academy Classics Subject Centre (2007).
Awards
Royal Society of Edinburgh International Exchange Programme Award, June 2008.
National History Teaching in Higher Education Award, Higher Education Academy History Subject Centre & Institute of Historical Research, Spring 2006.
Visiting Research Fellow Award, Centre for Advanced Studies, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (Indianapolis and Bloomington), 2004-2005.