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Stuart Parkin

Stuart Parkin

Educational Developer

Centre for Academic Development and Quality Dept.

Role

Stuart is an Educational Developer within the Academic Development team in CADQ. He works collaboratively with academic colleagues to explore and adopt innovative, inclusive and evidence-based learning and teaching practices, supporting excellent learning opportunities and outcomes for all students.

Stuart leads the Higher Technical Qualifications and Apprenticeships workstream, he is also the Educational Developer for Mansfield Hub.

Career overview

Stuart has a passion for curriculum design as he enjoys working with colleagues across the institution and passionately believes in success for all through educational gains rather than degree classification.

Prior to joining NTU, Stuart began his career in Higher Education at Plymouth University in the Library Services department. In his roles there he supported students finding resources to support their learning and research and led on teaching students how to use assistive software. The last two years of his period at Plymouth University, his role was to provide students with IT support and producing their work.

Since joining NTU Stuart has worked as an administrator for the disability support team within Student Support before managing the Subject Administration team for the Undergraduate courses of the Nottingham Business School for 6 years. He then joined CADQ via a secondment for the Quality team for 9 months where he predominantly worked on course design and curriculum development. This led to him joining the Academic Development team as an Associate Educational Developer to expand his experience and knowledge.

Throughout his career there has been a focus on supporting students and making education accessible for all.