Staff Profile:Professor Andy Goodwyn

Name:

Professor Andy Goodwyn

Job Title:

Head of Institute

Responsibilities:

University Responsibilities: Senate, Faculty Board for Teaching and Learning, Heads of School forum.

Main responsibilities in the Institute: Head of School

• Teaching: Convenor MA in English and Language in Education, MA module leader : 'Readers and Texts', 'Theory and Practice of English Teaching', 'Media Education', 'Poetic language', 'Improving Teaching and Learning', 'Practitioner based research', 'Mentorship', 'Developing Expertise in teaching and learning'
• Contributes to MTL/PGCE/GTP English,

Areas of Interest:

Areas of expertise and research interest [able to supervise at PhD and Masters level]:

• Theory and practice of English teaching,
• Literacy,
• Media Education,
• The development of expertise,
• Expert teachers, policy and practice,
• Information and Communications Technology in improving teaching and learning

Current and recent Research Students:

• Solomon Croos
• Eileen Hyder
• We Zhu
• Dianne Tolan
• Joanne Hillier
• Shaikhah Alrasheedi

Current and recent Research Projects:

• 2009-10 National survey of the impact of AST's [10,000, UoR funded];
• 2009 DCSF Community cohesion and English Teaching [2,500];
• 2007-8 BECTA research grant - expert teaching with ICT [50,000];
• 2007-8 TDA Developing e-learning [TDA, 50,000].

Research groups / Centres:

First Language Research Group

Publications:

Recent publications/conference presentations/professional achievements

Goodwyn, A. (2010) The Expert Teacher of English, London, Routledge

Goodwyn, A. 2010 The status of literature: a case study from England, English in Australia, Vol 45, No. 1, pp18-28.

Goodwyn, A, 2009 'Digi-teachers'English in Aotearoa

Goodwyn, A, Protopsaltis, A and Fuller, C. (2009) Celebrating out-standing teachers, Coventry, BECTA

Protopsaltis, A., Goodwyn, A. and Fuller, L. C. (2009). Outstanding teachers and ICT. In: ACM SIGDOC 27th International Conference on Design of Communication Bloomington, Indiana, USA, ACM Press, pp.51-58.

Goodwyn, A. 2007, The Beacon that was Bullock: A response to John Steadman's, 'The problem of English', The Use of English, V.58.2 134-148.

Conference presentations:-

Goodwyn, A. Literary reading, Annual Convention of The National Council for the Teaching of English, Orlando, Florida, November 2010

Goodwyn, A. Digi-teachers? A Model for English? Annual Convention of The National Council for the Teaching of English, Orlando, Florida, November 2011

Goodwyn, A. (co-presenters with others): Advanced Skills Teachers: a review of the current workforce, BERA, September 2010

Goodwyn, A.C. (co-presenter):Digi-teachers: technology and practice, BERA, September 2010

Goodwyn, A.C. 2010 August 'Developing Digi-teachers' The European Educational Research Association Conference, The University of Helsinki

Goodwyn, A.C. 2010 July UK Advanced Skills Teachers of English; who are they and what difference do they make? The National Association for the Teaching of English, Hinkley

Goodwyn, A.C. 2010 July The National Curriculum in England; a history 1989-2010 The Australian Association for the Teaching of English [Perth]

Goodwyn, A.C. 2010 April Digi-teachers, technology and practice The American Educational Research Association Conference, Denver

Goodwyn, A.C. 2009 November UK Digi-teachers and implications for policy, BECTA national research conference

Goodwyn, A.C. 2009 September UK Symposium Identifying real readers; studies of reading for pleasure, reading aloud, personal development and defining identity. The British Educational Research Association Conference, Manchester University

Enterprise activity, external roles and consultancy

• Leading the project to raise sponsorship for a Science Building at London Road
• Bid to the World Bank to work on Teacher Training Reform in Armenia
• Developing Partnership with Gulf College Oman
• Developing partnership with The University of the West Indies [The Champions project]
• Developing collaboration with BeaconHouse school group
• External Examiner for MA in Culture and Media, London University [2009-20012],
• Consultant to National Assessment Agency,
• International Representative for, and Chair of, the National Association for the Teaching of English,
• Member of the Subject Associations Working group.