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Dr Lucinda Newns
Lecturer in English Lucinda Newns is a Lecturer in English specialising in postcolonial and environmental literature. She joined BGU in 2023 after previous positions at King’s College London, Queen Mary University of London and the University of Manchester. She has also held a research fellowship at the Education University of Hong Kong (2020-2021). She was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship to complete her PhD at London Metropolitan University and holds an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and a BA from New York University. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. -
Dr Ian Pownall
Dr Ian Pownall is an experienced academic researcher having started his career as a political and policy researcher in the 1990s, he then progressed through various posts including Head of Department and Director of Teaching, Learning at Hull University and more recently, associate professor at Lincoln Business School and currently has a new role of LINK tutor for the BA programmes with ICON college. Ian has eclectic teaching and research interests that include; the public sector in general, policy making, strategy, pedagogy, international business, research methods and decision making. -
Dr Judith Naseby
Judith is a Lecturer in Psychology at BGU. -
Paul Staples
Paul has a wide range of experience across the education and youth work sectors. His most recent position was as a curriculum lead for Higher Education courses in an FE college. Paul has worked for several third sector and education organisations, including the Prince’s Trust and Lincolnshire County Council. Paul has experience of managing education settings including alternative education and supporting NEET young people in deprived areas of the county. Academically Paul undertook the Applied Studies in Children and Youth Work BA (Hons) at Bishop Grosseteste and gained a 1st class honours degree with JNC, and then went on to complete a Masters in Education at BGU. -
Dr Duncan Mercieca
Dr Duncan Mercieca lectures in Special Educational Needs, Disability and Inclusion at BGU. His research draws upon post-structural philosophers to think through educational issues, in particular, those related to diversity and otherness; inclusion and disability; and critiquing education research and its methods. Duncan also works in a special school in Scotland. -
Dr Emily McLemore
Dr. Emily McLemore is a Lecturer with the Foundation Year Programme. She earned her Ph.D. in English with a dissertation titled ‘Desiring Women: Pleasure and Power in Late Medieval English Literature’ from the University of Notre Dame. She also holds a Master of Arts in English from Oregon State University and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Secondary Education from Western Colorado University. Her areas of specialisation include Old and Middle English language and literature, gender and sexuality studies, and inclusive pedagogy in higher education. Emily is an experienced and passionate teacher. She was formally trained as both a university lecturer and a secondary educator, and has previously taught English literature, writing and rhetoric, and gender studies courses at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame London, and Oregon State University. As a licensed secondary educator, she also has experience teaching English language arts and creative writing for students aged 11 to 18. Emily’s research focuses on representations of women and the intersections of gender, sex, and violence in medieval texts. Her book project, based on her doctoral dissertation, examines representations of women’s desire and explores how eroticism works for and through female characters in Robert Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid, The Book of Margery Kempe, Geoffrey’s Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Although her research interests typically tend toward texts from the later medieval period, she maintains a profound love for Old English poetry, most especially Beowulf. Foundation Year Our degrees with an embedded Foundation Year offer the chance to study almost any undergraduate degree at BGU over four years, rather than the traditional three. For more information, visit: bgu.ac.uk/course-types/foundation-year -
Dawood Khan
Dawood Khan is a Lecturer in Marketing and Branding at Bishop Grosseteste University. He teaches undergraduate, postgraduate, and apprenticeship modules, and is actively involved in curriculum development for advanced-level courses. Prior to this, Dawood served as an Associate Lecturer at Nottingham University Business School (at the University of Nottingham), supervising MSc Marketing and Branding dissertations and mentoring students through complex research processes. Dawood has held various teaching positions at Nottingham Business School and Nottingham School of Art and Design (at Nottingham Trent University), where he delivered modules ranging from Strategic Marketing and Brand Management to Advanced Research Methods. He has also supervised dissertations for postgraduate students in fashion marketing and branding, fostering their academic and professional growth. Additionally, at Oxford Business College, he taught a broad range of courses, including Principles of Marketing and Researching Business Data taught via the University of West London curriculum. ORCID iD -
Dr Ian Hardwick
Dr Ian Hardwick specialises in the archaeology of later prehistory and the Roman period in Britain, together with the study of past landscapes (of all periods). He has undertaken several research projects looking at interactions between the Roman Empire and the local people(s) of central and northern Britain, together with the impacts these relations had upon surrounding frontier landscapes. Having worked for English Heritage / Historic England and in commercial archaeology on a wide range of archaeological survey projects (particularly in aerial survey), he gained his PhD at the University of York researching the region-wide impacts of the northern frontier of Roman Britannia (from Yorkshire to southern Scotland). This was followed by work as a post-doctoral research assistant on the Leverhulme Trust-funded ‘Beyond Walls: Reassessing Iron Age and Roman Encounters in Northern Britain’ project at the University of Edinburgh, and his current role as lecturer in archaeology at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln. His research interests include broader concepts of landscape, identity and frontier, together with how these themes interact (for Roman Britain and other empires of the ancient and more recent past). -
Dr Timothy Farrant
Timothy Farrant has developed research interests in medieval cultural history, historical theology, and practical theology. He completed his DPhil in Theology & Religion at Pembroke College, Oxford, followed by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Religion at the Maxwell Institute, BYU. Alongside his current fellowship in Medieval Theology and visiting lecturer status at Bishop Grosseteste University, he also works as a visiting lecturer in Chaplaincy at Birmingham Newman University. He has published with Philosophy & Theology, Bulletin de philosophie médiévale, Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval, Brill, and Springer Nature. He is presently pursuing the publication of his first monograph with Durham University IMEMS Press which explores medieval ideas about animals and the created world. -
Lucy Hughes
Lucy is a Senior Lecturer on the MA in Education and iPGCE programmes at Bishop Grosseteste University. With over a decade of experience in education, she brings a wealth of practical knowledge and academic expertise to her role. Background and Experience Lucy's career in education began in the secondary school setting, where she spent 9 years as a dedicated MFL teacher and Head of Department. She progressed quickly to leadership roles in curriculum, whole school improvement and teacher development. This hands-on experience has provided her with invaluable insights into the challenges and opportunities facing educators in today's diverse classrooms. Transition to Higher Education Later in her career, she transitioned to Initial Teacher Education (ITE), where she continued to develop her passion for preparing the next generation of educators. This move allowed her to combine her practical experience with cutting-edge educational research, enriching both her teaching and research interests.
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