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Dr Jamila Hussain
Jamila Hussain joined Lincoln Bishop in April 2023 as a Senior Lecturer in ITE. She had previously worked in a similar role in South Yorkshire. She is also a member of The Brilliant Club and an advocate for promoting opportunities for pupils from disadvantaged or minority backgrounds. She has recently forged links with the University of Central Punjab to look at gender inequality in higher education. Before embarking on a career in higher education, Jamila worked as a SENCO in Nottinghamshire and Nottingham City primary schools. She worked as an Early Years teacher for 13 years and SENCO for 8 years. As a SENCO, Jamila was the Achievement for All lead for her school. She gained her QTS from Manchester Metropolitan University and her National Award for SEND Coordination from Nottingham Trent University. Jamila also trained as an EY OFSTED inspector in 2022. Jamila runs The Saffron Club, a science workshop once a month in a Nottingham City Library aimed at children and their families who are from less advantaged socio-economic status (SES). She partners with scientists from The University of Nottingham to run this outreach programme. Her current areas of research also include early reading and scientific literacy in SES disadvantaged families. Prior to her career in education, Jamila worked as a post-doctoral electrophysiologist researcher for 8 years at Manchester, Cambridge and Nottingham Universities. She attained her PhD in Molecular Neuropharmacology from The University of Nottingham. She is currently co-authoring a chapter in a book entitled: Encountering Literacies in Early Years Classrooms. She teaches on the Primary ITE UG and PG programmes. She is also a mentor for the MA research students. Jamila is also the ITE representative for the RKEC at Lincoln Bishop. -
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Nishi Bremner
Nishi is a Senior Lecturer in Primary & Early Years Initial Teacher Education and ITaP Coordinator at Lincoln Bishop University, having joined the institution in September 2024. She brings over 25 years of successful teaching experience across diverse educational settings, including inner city schools in London, village schools, and international schools in Spain, before settling in Lincolnshire in 2011.Beginning her career after completing a PGCE in London, Nishi progressed through various teaching roles and year groups, ultimately serving as Deputy Head Teacher and Head of Academy at a school in a deprived area of Lincolnshire. Her extensive classroom experience provides a strong foundation for her current role in teacher education.Coaching and mentoring are central to Nishi's professional passion. She served as ECT Lead for 10 years, successfully supporting and mentoring Early Career Teachers in school settings. This commitment to developing new educators led to collaborative work with the EoETTC and SCITT programmes as a School Based Mentor and Quality Assurance Mentor. Her expertise in clinical practice, coaching and mentoring aligns seamlessly with her ITaP coordinator responsibilities.Nishi has also contributed to academic scholarship, co-authoring a chapter on supporting vulnerable children in the Early Years alongside Lincoln Bishop colleagues. Her areas of specialism include EYFS, Mathematics, Assessment and Science, with interests in English as an Additional Language (EAL) and supporting children and families from disadvantaged backgrounds.Through her experience and ongoing commitment to mentoring trainees, Nishi continues to champion the development of high-quality teaching practice and the support of newly qualified educators entering the profession. -
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Sarah Chesney
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Emma Edwards
Before joining Lincoln Bishop Emma had been a Primary school teacher for over twenty years. She worked in a number of settings, both rural and city based and in every year group from Foundation Stage to Year Six. She still maintains a teaching role within school, allowing her the opportunity to make links to current practice for training teachers. Emma has worked with trainee teachers and ECTs (NQTs) for many years as well as training and supporting the mentors with whom they work. Whilst working in schools Emma has led in most areas of the curriculum, but her main interest lies in Reading. She is particularly interested in text choice and how all pupils can be engaged to read through a curriculum which prioritises their love of reading. Emma is currently studying for the Children's Literature and Literacies Masters, here at Lincoln Bishop and has found the modules exploring the reflections of the child within a text both fascinating and relevant for today's classroom. -
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Ami Montgomery
Ami Montgomery is Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Education and Head of School for Teacher Education at Lincoln Bishop University, providing strategic leadership across the Faculty’s full portfolio of Education and Professional programmes, including Initial Teacher Education (ITE), postgraduate education, and professional development. She is also Centre Manager for the Bell Foundation Centre of Expertise for EAL, leading national CPD programmes and embedding linguistic inclusion across teacher education and school partnerships. Ami’s work champions equity, innovation, and collaboration, ensuring the Faculty remains at the forefront of inclusive education and teacher development.Areas of ExpertiseInclusive Pedagogy & Linguistic Diversity – Specialist in EAL strategies, intercultural communication, and multilingual classroom practice.Teacher Education Leadership – Strategic oversight of ITE and postgraduate programmes, curriculum design, and policy alignment.Research & Knowledge Exchange – Ethnographic and multimodal approaches to inclusion; advancing REF impact case studies.Internationalisation & Global Partnerships – Leading projects on teacher education and sustainable development in ASEAN and beyond.Threshold Concepts in Education – Researching conceptual foundations for transformative teacher education curricula. -
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Andy Dickenson
Andy Dickenson joined Lincoln Bishop in 2015 as a Senior Lecturer after many years as a visiting tutor at the university. Andy has worked as a class teacher, ICT coordinator and advisor for a local authority, teaching in classrooms from nursery, all the way up to secondary level. He has lectured in universities and schools across the globe, including co-authoring the computing curriculum for the Saudi Arabian education ministry. Andy has also worked as part of the education team for Lego After-School clubs in the Far East and Lego Education’s robotics program. Andy’s doctoral research is linked to children’s literature, examining the macabre and Gothic nature of illustrated books. Teaching Andy mainly works as part of the TD undergraduate team, but he also supports other courses across different schools at the university. He is joint lead for the Critical Thinking modules, Computing and eSafety, as well as being a member of the Mental Health and Wellbeing curriculum group. Andy is also part of the Research and Knowledge Exchange Unit, Literature and Literacies Group (RKEULiLi) at the university, which links to his interest in children's illustrated literature and graphic novels. -
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Dr Angela Barley
Angela joined Lincoln Bishop in August 2015, after two years as the primary manager for a nationwide teacher training company. Angela managed a programme which led to QTS/PGCE for both SCITT and School Direct trainees and was involved with both QTS and PGCE marking and assessment. She also designed and delivered training sessions which were delivered nationally as part of this role. Angela worked for Lincolnshire County Council/CfBT from 2008 to 2013 as an Early Years Consultant working with local schools and settings on improving provision and raising standards for young children. Angela designed and delivered EYFS training for both early years’ setting and school practitioners. Angela was also an area SENCo for a small group of nurseries in Lincolnshire within this role. Angela is an accredited EYFS Profile moderator and was part of the local authority moderation team, arranging and leading moderation events across the county. Angela also taught for eight years in a large primary school, leading Literacy across the school. Teaching Angela is the Cohort Leader for the Primary Teaching Studies (5-11) programme. She also works across both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes within teacher development. Angela has a particular interest in the areas of the EYFS, Phonics, early language and assessment within the EYFS. Angela works as a University Based Mentor across undergraduate and postgraduate teacher development programmes. She is part of the university working groups for Early Years, Phonics and English. Angela is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. -
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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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Professor Caroline Horton
Caroline joined Lincoln Bishop in April 2015. She is Professor of Sleep and Cognition, where she is director of the DrEAMSLab, Chair of Lincoln Bishop’s Research Ethics Committee, Lead for the Psychology, Health and Wellbeing Research and Knowledge Exchange Unit, and REF lead for Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience (UoA 4A) for Lincoln Bishop. Caroline contributes to the undergraduate BA Psychology courses, having previous programme led the courses, as well as the PhD programme. (see: www.dreamslab.co.uk / @sleepandmemory). More widely, Caroline is the Co-Director of the Lincoln Sleep Research Centre (LiSReC), the Treasurer and Trustee of the British Sleep Society, an elected committee member of the Cognitive Section of the British Psychological Society, where she is also a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol), and a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams Research Board. As a Committee member for the BPS’ Division of Health Psychology, Caroline is Co-Editor of the Health Psychology Update. Caroline is affiliated to research groups at the University of Lincoln, and Swinburne University, Australia. Caroline is a regular reviewer for several academic journals, a renowned expert in sleep, dreaming and memory, as well as on the Editorial Board for Sleep Psychology, and two of the Frontiers in Psychology journals. Caroline has been an external examiner at the University of Edinburgh (2019-2023; MSc Psychology of Mental Health) and is currently an examiner at the University of Derby (Psychology MRes) and Newman University (MSc Psychology (conversion)) and has externally examined several research degrees. Before joining Lincoln Bishop, Caroline obtained her undergraduate (2003) and Master's (2004) degrees in Psychology from the University of Durham, her PhD from the Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds (2007), and a PGCHE from Leeds Metropolitan University (2008). Caroline has taught at the Universities of Durham and Leeds as well as the Open University, and predominantly at Leeds Metropolitan University where she was a Lecturer then Senior Lecturer (2007-2015). Caroline’s research interests principally span the fields of sleep, dreaming, and memory, and the relationships between those concepts. She has pioneered and developed the Sleep Well programme, a behavioural sleep improvement programme, which is being rolled out to various populations, including young adults with anxiety, and people living with diabetes. Caroline regularly features in the media, on BBC radio shows and international podcasts. She is the founder and host of the Sleep Science Pod. -
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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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