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Dr Joy Mullan
Joy joined Bishop Grosseteste in 2011. Since then, she has taught predominantly on the Undergraduate primary teaching programmes, with specific responsibilities including professional co-ordinator and cohort leader. Prior to working in Higher Education, Joy taught in a range of primary schools, in a variety of teaching roles and senior leadership. While most of her experience has been in England, Joy has also gained experience of teaching overseas in Australia and New Zealand. Teaching Joy teaches on the BA (Hons) programmes in Primary Education and Primary Teaching Studies. Her particular area of interest is global learning, and she currently leads a module which explores issues of culture and inclusion. Other teaching areas in which Joy is particularly involved include primary RE and geography. -
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Dr Mary-Louise Maynes
Louise has been teaching at Lincoln Bishop University since 2008, initially as a visiting tutor and as a full-time member of staff from 2012. Prior to working at Lincoln Bishop Louise worked as a primary teacher in Kent and Lincolnshire and as a museum educator, working with children and young people in a variety of museums including the Natural History Museum in London.Louise teaches on the undergraduate Early Childhood Studies and Health and Wellbeing in Early Childhood Programmes. Her teaching interests include play, the history and sociology of childhood, early literacy, and research involving young children. She also teaches on the MA in Children’s Literacies and Literature where she teaches a module on researching with children and supervises students undertaking their final dissertation. Louise is a member of the MA Education Ethics Committee and also supervises PhD students. Louise leads the Literature and Literacies Research and Knowledge exchange unit Research & Knowledge Exchange Units - Literature and Literacies (LILI) | Lincoln Bishop University. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. -
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Paul Brenham-Foster
Paul is a graduate of the University of North Wales, Bangor and has taught in Primary Education for over 25 years, specialising in Early Years Education. Before becoming a full time member of the Academic Staff at Lincoln Bishop, he was seconded to the University from Derbyshire’s largest Nursery and Infant School, where he was a member of the Senior Management Team, Foundation Co-ordinator and Nursery Teacher, overseeing a department of 16 teaching staff and teaching assistants and over 200 foundation stage children. In February 2014, Paul was identified by OFSTED as an outstanding teacher, leader and manager.Previously to this, Paul was Assistant Headteacher of a Derby City School which became one of the first full service extended schools and part of the pilot of Sure Start Children’s Centres which was purpose built onto the school. Paul played a lead management role in setting up the provision including breakfast and after school clubs, daycare and holiday playschemes and this lead to involvement with Derby Children’s University and Paul was one of the original staff who set this up, allowing children to gain accreditation for their Out of Hours Learning, writing and delivering custom course content.Paul was involved in developing the role of Teaching Assistants as remodelling the workforce was introduced as part of his role as a School Governor. He has been involved with delivering training seminars and conferences for local authorities on Out of Hours Learning, Ensuring Outstanding Early Years Provision, Computing and New Technologies and was part of the Inner London Whiteboard Project in 2004.Although Paul has taught throughout the primary phase as a specialist in computing and new technologies, his passion is within Early Years, working with aspects such as physical literacy, drama, developing early imagination skills and Outdoor learning. As part of his management role within Early Years, Paul has been involved in moderation and training events as part of a cluster of Nursery and Infant schools and a Foundation Stage External Moderator. Paul has a long history of ITT, previously being on the Academic Board of Derby University for its Graduate Teacher Program and being a School Based Mentor for both Derby and Nottingham Trent Universities.Paul holds the Level 3 Award for Forest Schools and teaches this across the Primary Programmes and completed his MA dissertation on The Forest School Approach and Children’s Progress, Mental Health and Wellbeing. The MA research has been presented at local and national conference events and also as part of Masterclasses as a visiting tutor to some of the University partner 6th form colleges.Paul is currently studying for his Doctorate in Education (EdD) which research centring around Risky Play, teacher perceptions, the benefits and role it plays in children’s development as well as policy around the balance of risky play and safety. He is also one of the University Team of Mental Health First-Aiders and trained as a Domestic Abuse Champion. In 2025, Paul successfully completed the NPQ in Leading Teacher Development.TeachingPaul is the Cohort Leader for the PCGE 3-7 programme, Cohort lead for the PGCE part-time route and teaches across the range of Primary Programmes at Lincoln Bishop specialising in Early Years, Computing, Phonics, Drama, Design and Technology and he is the University Forest School Guru! He also supervises students on school placements as a University Based Mentor. Paul is a member of the following Academic Subject Specialist Teams:Early YearsEarly Years AssessmentCreative Arts – DramaEnglish - PhonicsComputing and New TechnologiesPaul is the lead for the Primary Assessment Only route for candidates who can demonstrate they are meeting the Teacher’s Standards in order to be awarded QTS.He also delivers part of the Mentoring and Coaching Training Days for school based mentors in the University Partnership, both on campus and out in schools. This content has been adapted as part of the University and Armed Forces Covenant seeing the training delivered to the RAF and Officers of Lincolnshire based Red Arrows Team. -
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Ruth Pearson
Ruth taught in Doncaster schools for twenty five years across the Foundation Stage, Key Stage One and Key Stage Two. She was responsible for many areas of the curriculum including the Early Years, English, Art, ICT, MFL, SEN and EAL. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, she led all Key Stage Teams during her long and very happy teaching career. Ruth joined Lincoln Bishop University as a Lecturer after being a School Based Mentor to many of our trainees in January 2015 on a secondment from her role in school as Assistant Headteacher. She became the Cohort Leader for the PGCE (EYTS) and took up a full time permanent role in 2017. Teaching Ruth is the Cohort Leader for School Direct (Primary) and as a Senior Lecturer, currently teaches on the PGCE Primary programme. Her particular areas of specialism are English, Phonics and the Early Years. -
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Dr Sheine Peart
Dr Sheine Peart joined Lincoln Bishop University in April 2019 from Nottingham Trent University. She is an Associate Professor in Access, Equality and Inclusion and is based within the Research Team at Lincoln Bishop. She is Programme Leader for Education based PhDs and the Education Doctorate as well as contributing to other education courses. She has had a diverse career in education working as a secondary school teacher, youth worker and education adviser before moving into higher education (HE) in 2006. Immediately before teaching in HE she worked in the further education (FE) sector for 15 years teaching numeracy to learners on a wide variety of vocational programmes and managing teacher education programmes. She has wide knowledge of practical classroom issues, extensive experience of working with learners who present challenging behaviour and an outstanding track record in supporting students, helping them to identify and achieve their goals. Her outstanding doctoral research on the experience of Black male learners in the post-compulsory sector which privileged the voices of marginalized, silenced learners won the national BERA/SAGE award for research. Sheine’s education qualifications include a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE Secondary Education), Bachelor of Science (Hons.), Master of Arts in Education and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). Dr Sheine Peart is happy to answer any queries regarding Lincoln Bishop's Doctoral courses. Email sheine.peart@lincolnbishop.ac.uk -
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Tracey Kilcoyne
Tracey joined Lincoln Bishop University in September 2017 following 16 years working in Nottinghamshire schools as an Assistant Head Teacher, SENCO, Behaviour lead teacher and Designated Safeguarding Lead. Her ITT was completed at York St. John’s University and she started her teaching career in North East Lincolnshire. She has experience of school leadership within Community junior and infant schools and Church of England primary schools. She completed the National Professional Qualification for Headship(NPQH) in 2012. During her time in Nottinghamshire Tracey worked alongside the Nurture Group Network to support the delivery of Boxall Nurture training to school staff. She was seconded to the DfE Achievement for All pilot project in 2010 as an AfA Coach supporting teachers across the county to improve outcomes for pupils with SEND. In 2012 she gained Specialist Dyslexia Teacher status and worked as a Reading Recovery Teacher. Alongside her specialism in SEND she has been an RE Subject lead within both community and Church of England primary schools and achieved the National Society’s Bishop’s Certificate in Church of England School Leadership in 2014. Teaching Tracey primarily teaches on the undergraduate programmes with a focus on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, and the National Award for Special Educational Needs Co-ordination (NA-SENCO). -
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Dr Erik Grigg
Senior Lecturer in HistoryI have a wide background in teaching both academically and in the heritage sector (in museums and castles). My primary focus is early medieval Britain, but I also take an interest in the Home Guard, Magna Carta, the Cornish language, the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Vikings, Forest Law and warfare in history. I give regular talks to history groups throughout the East Midlands.Related courses:HistoryMilitary HistoryArchaeology & Historyerik.grigg@lincolnbishop.ac.uk -
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Louise Connolly
Louise has established a career in education over the last 24 years. Having previously worked with the University as a Visiting Tutor for three years before joining the team permanently, Louise joined Lincoln Bishop University in September 2020 in a permanent role as a Senior Lecturer in Initial Primary Teacher Education where she now works on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Louise leads academic writing, research modules and also supervises masters students through their dissertations. Prior to joining the university academic team, Louise was a teacher in primary schools for nearly 20 years. Throughout her time in school, she carried out a number of roles such as Foundation and Key Stage One Leader, English Lead, History Lead and was also a Special Educational Needs Coordinator for 15 years. She later became a Head Teacher of a large primary school in a deprived area in Nottinghamshire and was also the Safeguarding Lead and Special Educational Needs Coordinator for a Multi-Academy Trust.Louise completed a Masters in Education in 2019 and predominantly focused on areas of Special Educational Needs and Emotional Health. Louise achieved Fellowship with the Higher Education Academy in 2021 and is in the final stages of her PhD where her topic of interest is around worry and wellbeing in undergraduate student teachers. She is a review editor for an educational journal and also an external examiner for Initial Teacher Education at another university. Louise also enjoys a role as a Primary School Governor in a local school. Louise has previously written articles on educational areas of interest in the TES and other educational magazines. She had her first book published by Sage in 2022 in their Super Quick Skills series about proofreading essays and also recently had an article approved for publication by The Teacher Education Advancement Network (TEAN). -
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Katie Furnival
Katie joined Lincoln Bishop in September 2020. During her teaching career, Katie taught in a range of schools in different parts of the UK, teaching every year group across the primary range. She has been responsible for many curriculum areas, including English, SEN, ITT and Art and also has been a member of SLT as a KS2 leader. In addition, Katie has been a Director of Learning for a large academy trust in the North of England. She provided modelled teaching, pedagogical leadership and professional development to colleagues in order to develop teaching and learning. She has also researched and developed a new approach to Feedforward marking; a method embraced by 32 schools. Katie has SLE (Specialist Leader of Education) status for ITE, support for the most able and English and is a trained KS2 writing moderator for Doncaster Council. She has previously been a guest lecturer at another HEI and enjoyed delivering a workshop at the Festival of Education in Sheffield. -
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Professor Julian Stern
Professor of Education and Religion julian.stern@lincolnbishop.ac.uk Julian Stern works on education and religion, leading research projects and organisations, and supervising doctorates. He qualified as a piano teacher, and then as a teacher of humanities and social sciences, and was a school teacher for fourteen years. Moving into teacher education and research, he has worked in universities in London, Yorkshire, and now Lincolnshire. Themes of his work include the philosophy of schooling, religious education, spirituality in education, research methods, and issues related to solitude, silence and loneliness. Related courses: PGCE Religious EducationMA in EducationEdDPhD
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