Experience

Halpin

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Consultant

  • Oct 2022 - Present

• Consulting Fellow

  • Sep 2021 - Oct 2022



FutureLearn

• United Kingdom
• E-learning
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Higher Education Advisor

  • Aug 2021 - Present



The University of Sheffield

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professor of Economics

  • Sep 2015 - Aug 2021

  Research interests currently focus on food price behaviour, food price inflation, supermarket pricing using scanner data, price volatility in world commodity markets and risk management using commodity futures markets. Teaching is shared on Modern Finance and inter-disciplinary modules in the Achieve More programme.

• Vice-President for Education

  • Sep 2015 - Aug 2020

  Responsible for all matters relating to learning and teaching across the University and leading on strategic approaches in this area. Part of the University Executive Board and reporting directly to the Vice-Chancellor. Formerly titled as Pro Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Teaching (Sept 2015 to Dec 2016)



University of Nottingham

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant PVC for Teaching and Learning

  • Aug 2013 - Aug 2015

  Reporting to the PVC for Teaching and Learning, I am currently leading the four-year Teaching Transformation Programme to help support and enhance the student experience. This builds on the three main responsibilities of my role. First, to develop the use of technology enabled learning to support our campus based students wherever they are studying. Second, to support the development and enhancement of curricula and assessment across all Schools and third, to enhance the promotion of all aspects of teaching and learning. I work across all our campuses and all Schools, along with a number of Professional Services to help ensure co-ordination of effort and efficiency in what is undertaken.

• Professor of Economics

  • Aug 2010 - Aug 2015

  Research interests cover a number of areas but currently the focus is on food price behaviour, food price inflation, supermarket pricing using scanner data, price volatility in world commodity markets and risk management using commodity futures markets. Teaching is based on introductory microeconomics for first years along with a Masters module on options and futures markets.

• Director of Teaching and Learning

  • Aug 2007 - Jul 2013

  As Director of Teaching and Learning I champion the importance of teaching and learning. I represent the interests of the University (as embodied in the Teaching and Learning Strategy) in discussions with all Heads of Schools individually, in committees, in Senate and with outside agencies such as U21, QAA and HEA. I play a number of roles that support the operational manifestation of the aims and objectives of the strategy. In particular, providing solutions to areas of weaker performance alongside a wider enhancement role, as well as helping fund innovation. The role entails working with colleagues from a range of professional services alongside serving on key University committees and reporting to the PVC for Teaching and Learning.

• Associate Professor

  • Aug 1999 - Aug 2010

• Director of E-learning

  • Jan 2006 - Jul 2007

  Responsible for raising the profile of and engagement with e-learning across the University. Having devised a strategy for enhancing e-learning, my work focused on bridging the gap between academic colleagues and learning technologists to explore ways in which technology could be used to solve previously identified problems. This took me across all the campuses and School of the University as well as working closely with a number of Professional Services.

• Lecturer in Economics

  • Aug 1990 - Jul 1999



Midland Bank

• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graduate Trainee

  • Aug 1986 - Jul 1987