Shaping Higher Education with Students

Vincent Tong is a Principal Teaching Fellow in the UCL Arena Centre for Research-based Education. Apart from being the strategic lead of the UCL Connected Curriculum initiative and a science educator, he is a Principal Investigator of an international research consortium in earth sciences. His research publications span a wide range of subjects, from astrophysical and earth sciences to pedagogy and research-teaching-outreach synergy.Mina Sotiriou is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the UCL Arena Centre for Research-based Education, and her focus is on Quality Assurance. Her work is primarily on curriculum design for online courses and student learning experience. Mina has worked in a number of higher education institutes in the area of learning technology, and she has designed many online courses. Her research interest is on the impact of professional development of short courses to learnersAlex Standen is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the UCL Arena Centre for Research-based Education. Alex leads UCL Arena Two, a development pathway for probationary Lecturers and Teaching Fellows. She joined UCL in 2013 in a student support and engagement role, prior to which she taught Italian and European Studies at the Universities of Birmingham and Auckland. Alex has published on the Italian author and playwright, Dacia Maraini, and is editor of a volume of essays on social and ethical engagement in twentieth-century Italian culture. Her current research interests relate to postgraduate research student development and student-supervisor relationships.