Dr Louise Connelly

Lecturer in Academic Development

Background

Louise Connelly is a Lecturer in Academic Development at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. Louise provides pedagogical advice and develops digital resources for the Jeanne Marchig International Centre for Animal Welfare Education. She delivers a number of workshops and manages the planning of the Veterinary Medical Education Division calendar of events for teaching colleagues; is responsible for the R(D)SVS suite of MOOCs; and teaches on undergraduate and MSc courses, focusing on e-professsionalism and social media and communication. Louise is Convenor of the Human Ethical Review Committee (HERC); Chair of the Staff Development (SupportEdu) Committee; and is Exam Board Chair of the SRCF undergraduate course. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).

Previously held roles at the University of Edinburgh include, Senior E-Learning Developer, Lecturer in Digital Education, and Head of Digital Education, where she provided pedagogical advice; instructional design; designing and developing digital education resources for MSc programmes and continuing professional development (CPD), including a number of MOOCs; and social media and website management.

Her research focuses on academic development; digital education; digital footprints and social media; and research ethics and online research.

Teaching

  • MSc and UG Dissertation Supervisor
  • Guest tutor on a number of online MSc programmes (2015-), providing lectures and support on research ethics and online research; eprofessionalism; social media and communication.

Qualifications

  • MA (Hons) Religious Studies, University of Edinburgh
  • MSc Information Management & Library Studies, Robert Gordon University
  • PGDip Digital Education, University of Edinburgh
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Edinburgh

Professional Qualifications

  • MAC - Member of Association of Coaching
  • SFHEA - Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library
  • Prince2 Project Management
  • Certificate in Marketing, Chartered Institute of Marketing
  • Certified Member of the Association of Learning Technologists, CMALT

Responsibilities & affiliations

  • Convenor of the Human Ethical Review Committee (HERC) at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
  • Chair - Staff Development (SupportEdu) Committee
  • Co-convenor - Career Development Committee (Easter Bush Campus)
  • Exam Board Chair - SRCF (undergraduate course)

Committee membership

  • PGT Learning & Teaching Committee
  • BVM&S Learning & Teaching Committee
  • Quality Assurance Committee - R(D)SVS
  • EMREC Public Health - R(D)SVS representative
  • Easter Bush Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee
  • Resource List Group - R(D)SVS representative

HEA

  • Edinburgh Teaching Award (EdTA) Mentor and Assessor

Research summary

Principal Investigator for the PTAS funded 'Managing Your Digital Footprint' project (2014-2015). The research aimed to investigate students' digital footprints and use of social media.

Co-investigator for the PTAS funded project "A live pulse": Yik Yak for Understanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment at Edinburgh (2016-2017).

In addition, I am interested in social media usage and the possible implications for teaching and learning; as well as research, ethics and social media.

Research activities

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