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Professor Rose Gann's Inaugural Lecture

From Puzzles in Politics to Solutions in Scholarship

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In this lecture Professor Rose Gann reflects on her career of over 25 years teaching politics within Higher Education. She explores how her non-traditional route into lecturing, her enthusiasm for teaching politics and external recognition for her teaching excellence, led to her work on a number of curriculum puzzles, including a multi-institutional project exploring young people’s perceptions on the study of politics; national advisory roles on the content and place of skills within the politics curriculum; and work with Advance HE on internationalising the curriculum.

  • From: Thursday 30 January 2025, 6 pm
  • To: Thursday 30 January 2025, 7.30 pm
  • Registration: 5.30 pm
  • Location: Lecture Theatre 4, Newton building, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU
  • Booking deadline: Thursday 30 January 2025, 3.00 pm
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In this lecture Professor Rose Gann reflects on her career of over 25 years teaching politics within Higher Education. She explores how her non-traditional route into lecturing, her enthusiasm for teaching politics and external recognition for her teaching excellence, led to her work on a number of curriculum puzzles, including a multi-institutional project exploring young people’s perceptions on the study of politics; national advisory roles on the content and place of skills within the politics curriculum; and work with Advance HE on internationalising the curriculum. Rose’s work in politics education soon led to national leadership roles, prompting her to reflect on the nature of educational leadership and its role in empowering others. Running throughout this work and underpinning it is Rose’s commitment to an expansive understanding of scholarship. Drawing on recent scholarship projects and leadership roles, Rose explores the symbiotic relationship between her disciplinary and scholarship work and why advocacy for politics education and the scholarship career track in higher education is so important to her.

Biography


Rose is Professor of Politics Education and Head of Academic Scholarship in the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). She is Chair of her learned society, the Political Studies Association of the UK and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her expertise is in politics education (specifically the politics curriculum), inclusive approaches to scholarship, higher education pedagogy, internationalising the curriculum and academic leadership. Rose pro-actively advocates for under-represented groups and academic communities, especially women and teaching and scholarship academics within her discipline as well as more broadly across Higher Education.  She is co-chair of NTU’s Trent Institute of Learning and Teaching (TILT), Teaching and Scholarship Associate Professor and Professor Network. Prior to her role as Head of Academic Scholarship in the School of Social Sciences, Rose was a Head of Department at NTU for 18 years providing academic leadership for Politics, International Relations and Sociology. Prior to joining NTU Rose held academic posts as a Principal Lecturer in Politics at the University of Central Lancashire and Lecturer in Politics at Swansea University, where she also completed her PhD in Political Theory.

Programme

5.30 pmRegistration and welcome refreshments
6 pmLecture begins
7 pmDrinks Reception
7.30 pmClose

Location details

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Lecture Theatre 4, Newton building

Address:

Goldsmith Street
 Nottingham
 NG1 4BU

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