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Professor Andrew Jackson
BA(Hons) MA PhD SFHEA FRHistS Professor Andrew Jackson is Executive Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange at Lincoln Bishop University. He joined the staff of the University in 2007 as a Lecturer in History & Heritage, following ten years at the University of Exeter. Andrew became the Head of Research at the University in 2017, and the Executive Dean of RKE in early 2024. Andrew’s academic background is in history and geography. He is a well-established, highly experienced, and enthusiastic advocate for the roles of research and knowledge exchange in empowering local places, and their people, communities, organisations, and environments. Professor Jackson’s senior management oversight includes the development of the University’s strategy for RKE, enhancement of its research culture and environment, the promotion and support of external engagement and partnership, submissions to the Research Excellence and Knowledge Exchange Frameworks, doctoral-degree provision, and grant income processes. Andrew is also Professor of Local, Regional and Landscape History. The main focus of Andrew’s research includes twentieth-century historical and geographical change in rural and urban contexts, and especially in Lincolnshire and Devon. His interests extend into literature and art, and publications include books, chapters and articles. Andrew also engages in public impact projects and supervises doctoral students. Connect with Andrew on LinkedIn -
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Dr Ashley Compton
Dr Ashley Compton joined Lincoln Bishop in 2000 and has taught on a variety of programmes across the institution. Her main teaching areas are research, mathematics, music and PE. Her master’s degree focused on children’s musical listening preferences, while her doctorate studied the relationships between creativity and assessment on undergraduate teacher education. She is also interested in gymnastics and volunteers as a coach for a local gymnastics club. Before coming to Lincoln Bishop Ashley was a primary teacher, and also worked as an advisory teacher for mathematics for Lincolnshire County Council, spreading the joys of numeracy throughout Lincolnshire. Teaching Ashley teaches mostly on the BA (Hons) Primary Education course but also contributes to the primary PGCE and supervises PhD and EdD students. She has created bespoke inset for teachers on mathematics, music, creativity and research, in the UK, Bermuda and at an EU summer school in Crete. Ashley is an accredited Professional Development Lead for mathematics and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy -
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Dr Claire Thomson
BA(Hons) MPhil PhD FHEADr Claire Thomson offers strategic leadership and management in the area of learning and teaching, student engagement and graduate outcomes. She has established The Hub, a purposely-equipped, student-facing support centre, designed around new and innovative ways of working to implement the strategic aims of the University. Claire leads a dynamic team with responsibility for all aspects of student support, teaching and learning excellence, and graduate outcomes.Claire and the wider Hub team implement research-informed enhancement across Lincoln Bishop University, creating transformative experiences, embedding student engagement projects, and developing skills to support academic study and employability. Claire is committed to the continuous professional development of Lincoln Bishop University staff, to ensure an accessible, inclusive, personalised student experience, and high-quality delivery of teaching and learning for which the University has a sector-leading reputation.Claire’s research background is in medieval studies, but current research interests are in the area of learning and teaching in higher education and the development of new methodologies for the delivery of effective and engaging learning, teaching and assessment. Research interests focus on the development of student-centred, blended learning approaches that utilise digital technologies and new methodologies for the delivery of effective and engaging learning, teaching and assessment. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Claire joined the University in 2000. -
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Dr Clare Lawrence
Clare is Associate Professor of Participatory Autism Research, as well as the English subject lead on the secondary PGCE course. She is a graduate of York, Oxford, Northumbria, Birmingham, and Sheffield Hallam universities. Her PhD is in parental involvement in the education of children with autism. Clare is the East Midlands Convenor for the Participatory Autism Research Collective (PARC) as well as being Lincolnshire County Council Autism Champion for Lincoln Bishop. -
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Prof Claudia Capancioni
Prof. CLAUDIA CAPANCIONI, Dott. (Urbino, Italy), MA & Ph.D (Hull, UK), SFHEAProfessor of English Literature and Programme Leader for EnglishORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7127-6202Claudia is Professor of English Literature and Programme Leader for English at undergraduate and master’s level (MA English Literature; MA Children’s Literature and Literacies). She is a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). At Lincoln Bishop, she is REF Unit of Assessment Lead for English and coordinates the Research & Knowledge Exchange Unit, ‘Re-presenting the Past: Cultures, Narratives, Legacies. She is the Deputy Chair of the Research Ethics and represents the Professoriate on Senate. In 2025, Claudia served as a member of the REF 2029 People, Culture and Environment Pilot Exercise’s Assessment Panel 28 (Dec. 2024 – July 2025) and was REF English Unit Lead for REF2021. She contributed to the University’s submissions to REF2021 and REF2014.The contribution of women to literatures in English is Claudia’s scholarly pursuit, with a focus on the long nineteenth century, the twentieth and twenty-first century. She specialises in British Victorian and contemporary women writers, life and travel writing, adaptation, gender, translation and solitude studies. She has a keen interest in multigenerational literary legacy in the long nineteenth century, intellectual circles, transnational and posthumanist studies. It is her work on border studies, matrilineal multigenerational literary legacy, Janet Ross and Sarah Austin, Margaret Collier Galletti di Cadilhac, Arctic travel narratives, and Joyce Lussu that is mostly cited. She has also published on Tennyson, the Gothic, detective fiction, Anglo-Italian literary and cultural connections, Ali Smith and Lucie Duff Gordon.Claudia teaches nineteenth-century and contemporary British literature, literary theory, travel writing, and research skills at undergraduate and MA levels. She also contributes to the doctoral programme of sessions for PhD and EdD students. She previously taught Victorian literature and Modernism at the University of Hull, where she was awarded her Ph.D.Claudia welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in pursuing their studies any of the following and related areas: Victorian literature and culture, Victorian and contemporary British women writers, travel and life writing, the Gothic, solitude in the nineteenth century, multigenerational intellectual legacy, migration and gender studies.Claudia is a member of UKRI’s Peer Review College, the Membership Secretary of the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) and the Deputy Chair of the Executive Committee of the Tennyson Society. She is also an Executive Committee member of the International Research Group L&GEND. -
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Dr Hazel C Kent
Hazel Kent is a historian with research interests in Modern British history, focusing particularly on left wing political culture, conscientious objection and pacifism. Hazel has worked at Lincoln Bishop University since 2007, where she is now a Senior Lecturer in History. Prior to this Hazel taught undergraduate History students at the University of Sheffield, where she undertook her MA and PhD. She is also a qualified secondary school History teacher and spent eight years as a Head of Department. Teaching Hazel teaches on a range of undergraduate modules: The Historian's Craft: Doing History at University; People and Places: Researching Local History; A better world is possible: British Protest Movements 1800-2000; The Long Weekend: Britain between the wars, 1918-1939; A life on the left: Fenner Brockway 1888-1988; and The Global Cold War. She also supervises third year dissertations, and has taught an MA module on Biography as Historical Practice. Hazel holds a PGCE from the University of Leicester and has been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2012. -
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Professor Jack Cunningham
Professor of Ecclesiastical History Jack Cunningham teaches on the undergraduate Theology programme at Lincoln Bishop University. Jack is a Church Historian with a current interest in ecclesiastical history in the High Middle Ages, with a particular interest in the 13th Century scientist, philosopher and theologian Robert Grosseteste. In 2007 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of his work in Church history. Jack joined Bishop Grosseteste from the University of Ulster where he was the Mac an tSaoir PH. D. Scholar. Teaching Jack is coordinator of the Theology programme. His teaching interests include the histories of Western philosophy and Christianity. Jack is also postgraduate tutor for doctoral students. PhD Supervision interests - Robert Grosseteste, as well as any aspect of Early Modern or Medieval Church History. -
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Dr Jon Begley
Jon Begley specialises in the undergraduate teaching of twentieth and twenty-first century British and American Literature. Jon’’s research is primarily in the field of the contemporary British novel whilst his teaching is founded upon a commitment to student interaction and the potential benefits of emerging technologies. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and prior to joining Lincoln Bishop University in 2006, Jon lectured at the University of Leicester and University College Northampton. Teaching Jon teaches on a range of modules offered on the undergraduate English programmes. Teaching interests include modern American literature, film studies, literary and critical theory, modernism and postmodernism, twentieth-century drama and the contemporary novel. -
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Dr Julia Lindley-Baker
Julia Lindley-Baker teaches on undergraduate programmes in Special Educational Needs and Inclusion(SENI) across the university. Having originally trained as a special needs teacher with a focus upon the primary age range, she has taught and held senior leadership positions in a range of different settings, always with a special education focus. Julia joined the staff of Lincoln Bishop University in 2010, following ten years as Vice Principal of a special educational needs college. Teaching Julia co-ordinates and teaches on a wide variety of modules drawing upon her knowledge and understanding of SENI. Her teaching interests include the sociology and history of special needs, pedagogy of special needs and the diverse nature of inclusive practice. She also has extensive experience of delivering inset and CPD for teachers and teaching assistants. She has delivered training locally, nationally and internationally. She is recognised as a senior fellow by the higher education academy (SFHEA). -
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Dr Kay Johnson
Kay is the Programme Leader for the MA in Education with TESOL, is a senior lecturer on the BA TESOL and Linguistics, and also lectures on the MA programme. She previously worked as a senior lecturer on the BA in Education Studies at Lincoln Bishop and continues to contribute to the programme as a guest lecturer. She has many years' experience as a TEFL teacher in the UK and overseas, and has taught EAP pre-sessional courses at the University of Nottingham. Her research background is as a linguistic ethnographer and she conducted fieldwork for her PhD in Vanuatu, in the South Pacific, which is the most linguistically-dense nation in the world. Kay’s research interests span topics within theoretical linguistics, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, and has most recently worked with education sector partners in Vanuatu to increase their capacity for local language literacy in educational and community contexts. She has taught linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and worked as a Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Kingston in London (2014-18). Kay gained her BA in French and English from the University of Liverpool and obtained an MA in Language Documentation and Description (2009), and a PhD in Field Linguistics (2014) from SOAS.
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