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Rose Gann

Dr Rose Gann

Head of Academic Scholarship

Associate Professor

School of Social Sciences

Role

In her role as the Head of Academic Scholarship for the School of Social Sciences, Rose provides leadership and strategic direction for scholarship across the School as well as leadership and support for university-wide initiatives to develop the teaching and scholarship pathway at NTU. Rose is an Associate Professor of Politics and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her teaching and scholarship expertise focus on the pedagogy of the politics curriculum, feminism and political theory, internationalisation of the curriculum, Higher Education pedagogy and scholarship.  Outside of NTU, Rose is current Chair of the Political Studies Association of the UK.

Career overview

Rose gained Associate Professor status at NTU in 2020 and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy recognition in 2023. She is a strong advocate for developing greater visibility and support for staff on the education or teaching and scholarship focussed career track. Recent scholarship projects at NTU that Rose has led include 'Mapping scholarship: A case study of how academic staff in a school of social sciences understand and practice scholarship in post-pandemic higher education'. She is also the founder and co-chair of the Trent Institute of Learning and Teaching (TiLT), Teaching and Scholarship Associate Professor and Professor Network - which she established to provide a space where Associate Professors and Professors on the teaching and scholarship track across the University could share experiences and build a sense of community.

In her own scholarship work, Rose is interested in how the politics curriculum has evolved and developed. In 2022, Rose was a member of the QAA advisory group for the Politics and International Relations subject benchmark statement review and led a sub-group developing the Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Education section of the revised benchmark statement launched in 2023. From 2015-2017, Rose was a member of various advisory groups working with awarding boards and government bodies working to revise the A level Politics. Rose has been involved in several NTU and national projects exploring how to internationalise the curriculum and has published in this area. Rose teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students on Politics and International Relations degrees – especially in the areas of Feminist theory, Political Ideas and Education – and supervises MSc projects and PhD students.  She welcomes PhD student enquiries in areas of her scholarship expertise - in particular innovations in (politics) pedagogy, curriculum development and Feminist theory.

Rose has extensive experience of the leadership and management of academic staff teams at NTU as a Head of Department. She joined NTU in 2004 as Head of Division of Politics and Sociology, was Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations (2012-2020) and more recently has been Head of Department of Social and Political Sciences (2020-2023). As a Head of Department, Rose was responsible for the management and recruitment of academic staff, overseeing course teams for undergraduate and post-graduate provision as well as ensuring the delivery of NTU’s strategic objectives with respect to teaching, learning and the student academic experience. In 2011, Rose set up and was the first chair of the School of Social Sciences' Internationalisation group and, alongside her role as a Head of Department, she was the School lead for Internationalisation between 2011-2016.

Before joining Nottingham Trent University, Rose held academic posts as a Principal Lecturer in Politics at the University of Central Lancashire. Prior to this, she was a Lecturer in Politics at Swansea University - where she also undertook her PhD research in Political Theory.

Research areas

My current scholarship research focus is in three broad areas;

  • Scholarship and pedagogy in HE,  'Mapping' Scholarship in the Social Sciences, recognition and promotion opportunity for staff on scholarship/education track careers, internationalising the curriculum
  • Developing the politics curriculum, changes and impact of external trends and factors on the politics curriculum, disciplinary identity and the role of subject benchmark statements
  • Rethinking the feminist theory curriculum and teaching in the context of debates regarding decolonisation of the curriculum.

External activity

Rose has an extensive history of working with external bodies and organisations – including her learned society, the Political Studies Association of the UK. She has been an elected trustee of the Political Studies Association on several occasions (most recently completing two concurrent terms of office between 2014-2020) and in 2023 successfully became the first PSA Chair from a post-1992 university. Rose also has experience of grant capture for teaching and learning projects – as Principle Investigator of a large (£250K) multi-institutional project, funded by DofE and Higher Education Academy, exploring young people’s perceptions of studying politics at university (2004-2008) and as a co-investigator on the Higher Education Academy’s Strategic Enhancement Programme: internationalising the curriculum (2015).

As well as being a member of the QAA's advisory group for the review of the Politics and International Relations subject benchmark statement,  Rose has undertaken consultancy work in the area of curriculum development as a member of the External Subject Advisory Group (ESAG) Politics, for Edexcel Pearson UK and has worked closely with OfQual and Exam Awarding bodies in the reform of the A-level Politics (2012-2017).

Rose is regularly invited to be an external reviewer for teaching and learning reviews of Politics subject teams and Departments in HE universities in the UK and more recently to give keynote talks on the importance of Scholarship at  teaching and learning conferences (UCL & Leeds).

Publications

Forthcoming...,

'The importance of scholarship' (2023) Politics, forthcoming.

Recent blog posts:

Articles:

  • Kirk, S.H., Newstead, C., Gann, R. & Rounsaville, C., 2018. Empowerment and ownership in effective internationalisation of the higher education curriculum’ Higher Education, 76, pp.989-1005.
  • Gann, R., 2016. ‘How to Internationalise the Social Sciences curricula: a peer-review checklist approach’ European Political Science, 15 (1), pp7-22.
  • Newstead, C., Gann., R., Kirk, S, & Rounsaville, C. 2016. ‘Disciplinary perspectives on Internationalising the Curriculum’ Report for the Higher Education Academy in partnership with NTU.  This can be accessed on the Higher Education Academy website.
  • Gann, R., Kirk, S.H., Newstead, C., & Rounsaville, C. 2019. ‘The opportunities and challenges of using tools or checklists to assist with internationalising the curriculum’. pp77-88. In Kirk,  Newstead, Gann, & Rounsaville (eds.) Conference proceedings of the 1st Trent Institute for Learning and Teaching / NTU Global Conference: Internationalising the Curriculum: Internationalisation at Home and Engaging Academic Staff, NTU July 2016.

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