Role
Gareth is the strategic lead for resources and planning, governance, international partnerships, and external engagement for the School of Social Sciences. An Associate Professor, he has a significant academic track record in leadership, teaching, research, and scholarship.
Resource and Planning
Gareth leads course portfolio planning for the school, working with the six departments to build student forecast models that inform teaching provision and course marketing. With Estates and Digital Technologies, he also advises school academic and professional services teams in developing new office designs, focusing on agile workplace principles, innovative teaching spaces. He chairs the project board to reimagine the university’s academic work planning and allocation approach.
He leads strategic objective development and governance for the School and guides the progress of the School’s University, reimagined commitments.
International Partnerships and External Engagement
Gareth is the strategic lead for international partnerships in the School of Social Sciences. He chairs the School’s International Committee and is the University International Committee school representative. As part of NTU’s Connecting Globally strategy, Gareth works to empower colleagues and partners to create sustainable opportunities in student and academic mobility, Collaborative Online International Learning, and approaches to facilitate student intercultural competency.
His portfolio also includes Nottingham Civic Exchange, collaborative standards and quality, and he leads the commercial development team for the School.
Career overview
Gareth is the former Management Lead (Deputy Head) for Psychology, with a teaching and research focus on cognition and development, he received the Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Award in 2018.
Research areas
Gareth is involved in the following research projects:
- Exploring the spelling and written language skills of children with Developmental Language Disorder
- Written language skills in primary and secondary school students, and the links these skills have with reading and cognition
- Developmental predictors and association of Developmental Coordination Disorder
Gareth supervises projects that explore how language and cognition relate to reading, spelling, and writing skills, often from a developmental or bilingual perspective. Primarily, his work involves quantitative and experimental methodologies.
External activity
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society
- Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
- Member of the British Psychological Society Developmental Section
Sponsors and collaborators
- Dr Sarah Critten, The Open University
- Dr Emily Coyne-Umfreville, Birmingham City University
- Prof. Clare Wood, Nottingham Trent University
- Dr Rebecca Larkin, Nottingham Trent University
- Dr Vivienne Du, Nottingham Trent University
Press expertise
- Children's reading development
- Children's spelling and writing development
- Language development
UN Sustainable Development Goals
Gareth's work relates to UN Sustainable Development Goals 4 (Quality Education) and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).
