Dr Hannah Grenham

Hannah has been a member of staff at Bishop Grosseteste University since 2017, when she joined the Centre for Enhancement in Learning and Teaching (CELT) as a Learning Development Tutor. Since 2021, she has worked as a Senior Lecturer on the Foundation Year programme and also contributes to teaching in the History department.

Prior to coming to BGU, Hannah earned an undergraduate MA in English and Modern History and a postgraduate MLitt in Modern History, both from the University of St Andrews. She was awarded her PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2017 for a thesis titled ‘Power to the People: Changing Attitudes to Computer Technology in the United States, 1951-1982’. Hannah is also a Certified Practitioner of Learning Development through ALDinHE and an Associate Fellow of the HEA.

Hannah’s research interests are in late modern US history, particularly in the connections between society, culture, and technology. She is also interested in researching the professionalisation of Learning Development and pedagogical practices within Higher Education.

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/degrees-with-a-foundation-year


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Related Courses

Grenham, H. (2020). The mechanical monster and discourses of fear and fascination in the early history of the computer. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7(154). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00650-4

Foundation Year

FDY001 - Self as Learner

FDY002 - Resourcing Learning

FDY003 - Critical Thinking

FDY004 - Critical Engagement

FDY005 - Effective Communication

FDY006 - The Digital Learner

FDY007 - Reflective Learning

FDY008 - Academic Writing

History

HIS409 - At War With Itself: The United States from Civil Rights to Vietnam (2019-20)

HIS508 - Creative Destruction: The Atlantic World in the 17th and 18th Centuries (2021-22)

HIS606 - The Cold War and the Space Age (guest lecturer)