Helen Hewertson
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Helen Hewertson is a Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Social Science. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy who has taught at various levels and to learners with various abilities and ages. She is course leader on the Foundation Year programme in the School, and is module leader for several modules. Helen has supervised Psychology dissertations and is a module leader for Sociology. She is involved in the Education research group and her main publications are around educational research and equity and how this intersects with psychology and sociology. She is also interested in media representation and culture. Her current research is on transitions to university and the strengths mature students bring to Higher Education.
Helen's interests and teaching experience are varied. She teaches study skills, critical thinking, research methods and digital literacy for the foundation year. She is module leader for the sociology modules Media and Culture, and Sociology of Social Movements. She has been asked to guest lecture on anime, gender in sci-fi, as well as stereotypes and representation in the media. Helen has also taught sessions for sociology on participatory action research. She has published around research-informed teaching, curriculum development, educational technology, and intersectional imposter syndrome.
Helen is on the steering group of the Centre for Education and Research Scholarship. She previously chaired the Pedagogic Research Forum (PRF) for 10 years and is involved with the annual CCL Festival of Learning conference.
- MRes in Child Computer Interaction, University of Central Lancashire, 2015
- MSc in Applied Psychology, Liverpool Hope University, 2007
- BSc (Hons) Biology and Psychology, Liverpool Hope University 2002
- Academic literacy
- Anime
- Critical pedagogy
- Curriculum development
- Educational equity
- Education psychology
- Educational technology
- Imposter syndrome
- Intersectionality
- Media psychology
- Representation in media
- Research-informed teaching
- Sociology of media
- Social movements
- Social psychology
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
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- Education research group
- Lancashire Research Centre for Digital Life
- Dillon, M. and Hewertson, H. (2013) The UCLan Research Academy: Supporting students with their capstone research projects
- Re-energising undergraduate research methods pedagogy in education
- Liverpool Hope University 18th June 2013
- Hewertson, H. (2012) Companion Animals: Interactions and relationships
- International Society for Anthrozoology Conference; Arts and Sciences of Human-Animal Interactions
- Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK. 11 - 13 July 2012
- Mahoney, P. Hewertson, H. Gotaas, J (2010) The Magic Pens project
- ALT-C; "Into something rich and strange" - making sense of the sea-change, 7th September 2010
- Hampton-Reeves, S. Mashiter, C. Hewertson. H (2009) Using and Abusing the Internet to Access Research: Reflections on a Study of Student Research Behaviour
- International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation- ICERI2009 16th -18th November 2009
- Hewertson, H. What makes a really good learner? What do students believe? Improving Student Learning – For the 21st Century Learner; The 17th Improving Student Learning Symposium, Imperial College London, UK, 7 –9 September 2009
Telephone:+44 (0) 1772 89 2865
Email: Email:Helen Hewertson
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