Curriculum Vitae

Name 				 Katherine Ann EXLEY
Date of Birth 	19th March 1964
 
Contact Address
Pear Tree Farm
46 Moorgreen
Newthorpe
Nottingham 
NG16 2FB.
Telephone : (01773) 789209
 
Email : 			 kate@kate-exley.com

Web Page :	 www.kate-exley.com

Education

1982 - 1988                Liverpool University
1985                            B.Sc. 1st Class Hons. Genetics
1989                            Ph.D. Genetics
1995                            Staff and Educational Development Association Fellowship (assessed by portfolio and oral)
 
Previous Work Experience
2007 - Present           Director of "Higher Education Assessment & Development Ltd"
2004 - Present           Senior Staff Development officer, University of Leeds
2003 - 2007                Director of  "Kate Exley Ltd." Staff Development and Educational Development Consultancy
1999 - 2002                Career break from The University of Nottingham & educational consultantancy
1997 - 1999                Lecturer in Department of Continuing Education (Part time)
1996 - 1999                Staff Development Officer (Part-time)
1991 - 1996                Academic Staff Development Officer (Enterprise)
1988 - 1991                Lectureship in the Department of Genetics (University of Nottingham)

Independent Consultant
1999 – present            Staff Development and  Educational Consultant  (Self employed)
1999 – present            Consultant, Oxford Centre For Staff & Educational Development
2000 – present            Core tutor, PGCAP at Queen Mary College, London
2000 – present            Learning Set Advisor and Tutor, PGCHE, The University of Nottingham 
2000 – present            Subject centre ESCalate ‘Learning Exchange’ Development Facilitator
2002 - 2003                 Subject centre Engineering FE Scoping study consultant
2002 – present            Consultant for Teaching and Learning Development Office, LSE
2002 – 2004                Evaluation Consultant (Directed Learning), Royal Veterinary College, London.
2002 – 2004                Peer Support and Teaching Observation Project Consultant, University of Hull
2003 – present            Dissemination of good and innovative teaching Task Force, development of video web resource The University of Nottingham.
2003 – present            The University of Leeds, Route 2 PGCERT co-ordinator
2004 – 2007                Diversity taskforce consultant – The University of Nottingham
2004 – present            Subject centre Engineering DFEE Entrepreneurship consultant.
2004 – 2006                FL 4 STARS project evaluator
2005 - present             Integrative Learning CETL - External Evaluator
2005 - 2007                 POLIS FDLTP project Evaluator

Staff Development Experience
I have particular experience and interest in issues of teaching, learning and assessment and accreditation, supervising PhD students and contract researchers, resource based learning and curriculum change.

Key responsibilities have included :-

• the role of Course Leader for the University mandatory ILT/SEDA accredited Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice at The University of Nottingham.
• designing and running a wide range of staff development workshops for the University of Nottingham and the regional M1/M69 staff development network
• internal staff development consultancy with individual offices or departments through the Staff Development Fund.
• successful tendering for 'Career review' workshop design & delivery for the MRC
• involvement in national project teams, e.g. Resource based learning (Graham Gibbs, HEFCE, Supporting contract researchers (UCoSDA/HESDA), Post-graduate supervisor’s accrediation (BBSRC and SEDA)
• presenting at conference (9) and publishing articles and reviews (27)
• acting as a mentor for the SEDA Fellowship in the UK and Singapore
• private staff development consultancy at more than forty universities and colleges
• acting as external examiner/external validator for six universities
• acting as a ‘Cyber Prof.” For the University of Northumbria
• author and series editor ‘Key Guides for Effective Teaching in HE’, RoutledgeFalmer.Staff Development Experience

 

Membership of External Bodies/Groups

• Fellow of the Staff & Educational Development Association (SEDA) - Awarded (On the basis of an assessed portfolio and a viva voce) (12th May 1995)
• Level 2, Registered practitioner with Higher Education Academy
• Educational representative on the Learning and Teaching Subject Network (LTSN) Engineering steering group (May 2000)
• New Academic Editorial Committee (Invited membership)
• CVCP/UCoSDA 'Research Development' Task Force (Invited membership)
• SEDA Staff Development Fellowship Committee (Invited membership)
• SRHE (Society for Research in Higher Education)
• BBSRC/SEDA Accreditation Working Group (1997/8)

External Examiner and course validation/accreditatio

• External member of the Faculty Evaluation Panel 1995 Diploma in Teaching in Higher Education - University of Ulster
• External validator for Teaching programme External member of course validation panel at Nene 1997 Nene college
• External examiner Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice 1997 - 2001 University of Northumbria
• External examiner 1999 - 2003 Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Cert. ongoing - University of Liverpool
• External advisor 2001- 2006 ILT accredited pathway - De Montfort University
• External evaluator 2001 - 2005 ILT accredited programme - University of Bath
• Extenal reviewer 2006 The University of Liverpool Post Graduate Certificate

Publications

K.A.Exley & P.Eggleston, (1989)
Structure, frequency and distribution of P elements in relation to P-M hybrid dysgenic male recombination in Drosophila melanogaster.
Genetic Research, Camb. 53, 163-171.

P.Eggleston & K.A.Exley, (1992)
Chromosome interactions in P-M dysgenic male recombination of
Drosophila melanogaster
Genetic Research, Camb. 60 , 165-174,

K.A.Exley & I.Moore, (1992)
Developments In Science Teaching
The New Academic, 1(2), 11-14,

K.A.Exley, (1992)
Ants, Small Mammals and Enthusiastic Students
The New Academic, 1(2), 1.

K.A.Exley, (1992)
Assessment - The case of Genetics
In Effective Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Assessing Active Learning, Module 11, Part 2, 63-66
Ed. George Brown & Malcolm Pendlebury

M.Binks & K.A.Exley, (1992)
Observing the Output of Institutions of Higher Education
- The Case of Student Competence
In Conf. Proceedings : Innovative Assessment in Higher Education, p 51-58

M. Binks, A. Grant & K. Exley, (1993)
Assessing the Output of Institutions of Higher Education : A Pilot Study
In Proceedings of the Second QHE 24 Hour Seminar, p18-28
Ed. L. Harvey

K. A. Exley & I. Moore, (1993)
Innovations in Science Teaching
SCED Paper 74 ISBN 0 946815 18 6

K.A.Exley & V. Gilgeous, (1994)
Real Business Enterprise
The New Academic, 3 (2), p10

K.Exley, (1994)
Engineering : Preparing for the Real World
The New Academic, 3 (2), p 9 -12

I. Moore & K. A. Exley (1994)
Alternative Approaches to Teaching Engineering Volumes I & II,
ISBN 1 85889 023 3. UCoSDA and The Engineering Professors' Council

Kate Exley & Graham Gibbs (1994)
Course Design for Resource Based learning : Science
ISBN1 873576 33 1 The Oxford Centre for Staff Development (OCSD)
Elton, L. and USDU's Task Force Three (1994)
Staff Development in Relation to Research
Occasional Green Paper No. 6

P. Garrud K. Exley (1996)
Assessing Communication Skills in Student Doctors
The New Academic, 5 (1), p 10

A.H. Short & K. Exley (1996)
Using & Assessing Posters
The New Academic, 5 (1), p 10 - 11

K. Exley & R. Dennick (1996)
Innovations in Teaching Medical Sciences
SEDA Paper 93 ,
ISBN 0 946815 24 0

R. Dennick & K. Exley (1997)
Tomorrow's Doctors Today : Innovations in medical teaching and learning - responding to the challenge of Tomorrow's Doctors
Biochemical Education 25 (1), p6 -11
UCoSDA Research Task Force (1997)
Supporting Contract Research Staff through Continuing Career and Professional Development
UCoSDA, ISBN: 1 85889 101 9

K. Exley (1997)
Life after Dearing : Towards an accredited future
The New Academic 6 (3), p13 - 15

R. Dennick & K. Exley (1998)
Teaching and learning in groups and teams.
Biochemical Education 26 p111-115.

R. Dennick and K. Exley (1998)
Radical Changes in Medical Teaching
The New Academic
Vol 7 (2) p17 - 19

K. Exley (1999)
Issues in teaching Science and Engineering
Chapter 20, In "Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, pp265 - 289 Kogan Page

K. Exley (1999)
How to spice up life in a big group
THES, June 11th, p34-35

K. Exley & C. O'Malley (1999)
Supervising Ph.D.s in Science and Engineering in
"Good practice in Postgraduate supervision" Eds. Wisker, G. and Sutcliffe, N.
SEDA Paper106

K. Exley & I. Moore (1999)
Innovations in Teaching Science - Volume II
SEDA Paper 107
ISBN 1 902435 044

K. Exley (2000)
How to liven up life in the laboratory
THES, 3rd March, p38-39

K. Exley (2000)
How to teach in seminars
THES, 27th October

K. Exley (2001)
In at the deep end
THES, Sept 2001

K. Exley (2002)
FE Scoping Study
LTSN Engineering Report : HE Engineering Provision in FE Colleges
ISBN 1-904190-23-5

K. Exley (2003)
Occasional Teachers’ Handbook
London School of Economics

K. Exley and R. Dennick (2004)
Giving a Lecture : From Presenting to Teaching
Key Guides for Effective Teaching in Higher Education
ISBN 0415307198 London : Routledge/Falmer

K. Exley and R. Dennick (2004)
Small Group Teaching : Tutorials, Seminars and Beyond
Key Guides for Effective Teaching in Higher Education
ISBN 0415307171 London : Routledge/Falmer

K. Exley (2006)
Departmental and Personal Tutor Handbook
London School of economics

K. Exley (In Press)
"Teaching as part of your Professional Development"
Chapter 18 in "The Research Postgraduates Handbook"
Editors G. Hall and J. Longman, Sage : London

Conference Papers

M.Binks and K.A.Exley (1992)
"Observing the Output of Institutions of higher Education :
The Case of Student Competence"
"Innovative Assessment in Higher Education", EHE Conference, Uni. of Wales.

R.Blackwell and K.A.Exley (1992)
"Quality Initiatives & The Role of Staff Development"
SCED/SRHE Annual Conference,
"Living with Expansion in Higher Education -Coercion, Collusion or Negotiation."

K.A. Exley and I.Moore (1993)
"Innovations in Teaching Science"
"New Developments in Learning"
SCED/SRHE National Conference, 19-21 May

K.A. Exley and I. Moore (1995)
"Science and Engineering Teaching in HE"
ASE conference, HE symposium, Lancaster University, 06 January

R. Blackwell and K Exley (1997)
"HE Staff Development"
Dearing and Continuing Professional Development : Implications and Opportunities The University of Nottingham, Albert Hall.

K. Exley and C. O'Malley (1997)
"Supervising PhD students"
"Beyond the first degree" SRHE anual conference, University of Warwick

K. Exley and C. Haines (1998)
SEDA conference

K. Exley (2005)
"Interactive Lectures"
Contract researchers and Research Students who teach, The University of Nottingham

K. Exley (2006)
"Making good use of your Supervisor"
Society for Applied Microbiology, Edinburgh

Updated December 2006