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Professional Practice in Special Educational Needs & Disability (SEND) (Grantham)
Our FdA Professional Practice in Special Educational Needs and Disability is designed for people already working in this field, who want to develop their careers. If you are working or regularly volunteering in a school, nursery, residential care or another professional setting, supporting children, young people or adults with special educational needs and disabilities, this programme will enable you to study for a Foundation Degree whilst continuing the work role you love. This course is typically taught, one afternoon/evening session per week at Grantham College, the course combines college-based learning with your ongoing professional practice and some independent study. You will increase your knowledge and understanding, and develop academic skills to enhance you career and/or move on to higher study. Please note that this course is taught at Grantham College. -
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History
Our history course is broad, interesting and ambitious in its coverage of historical topics and eras from the medieval period into the 21st century. From the Black Death to pirates in the Caribbean, from French revolutionaries to civil rights campaigners, from witch trials to Cold War tensions, you will learn how people in the past lived, understand their world, their beliefs, motivations and actions, and ultimately learn how the world came to be the way it is.The lecturers on this course will draw on their own research and teaching experience to bring history alive for you in classrooms and on field trips. The work placement opportunities will enable you to apply your knowledge in a professional setting and our assessments are tailored to help you develop the range of written, oral and digital skills that are in demand for graduate roles.If you don’t have, or don’t think you will attain the normal tariff points for studying at Lincoln Bishop, click here to view the Foundation Year version of this course. -
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Health & Social Care Leadership
This course aims to enable an in-depth knowledge and understanding of leadership practice in Health and Social Care, informed by scholarly research and including a critical awareness of issues and developments in the field.Please note: This course is subject to re-validation. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information provided, course content, structure, and delivery may be subject to change. Final details will be confirmed upon completion of the revalidation process. -
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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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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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Tara May
Tara teaches on the FdA and BA (Hons) (top up) Applied Studies across all pathways (Learning Support, Early Childhood and Children and Youth). She joined Bishop Grosseteste in 2012 as a Visiting Tutor working on the FdA and BA (top up) Applied Studies, undergraduate Early Childhood Studies, Education Studies and SENI programmes before taking up a full time position in 2015. Prior to this Tara worked as the Assessment Manager for an Early Years Professional Status provider and a Programme Leader of a FdEd and BA (Hons) (top up) Early Childhood Studies within another Higher Education institution. Teaching Tara teaches on the Foundation and Honours degrees in Applied Studies across all of three pathways. Her teaching interests include the individual in society, inclusion and professional practice in early years. Tara also has a particular interest in the role of early years professionals and the implementation and development of the Early Years Teacher Status. -
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About the Sport & Fitness Centre
Welcome to Lincoln Bishop’s very own on-campus Sport and Fitness Centre, open to everyone from our students and staff to the public. Whether you’re looking to shift those stubborn pounds, join a new class and make friends, or catch up with old friends over a friendly game of badminton, we have it all. -
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About us
Lincoln Bishop University is located on a beautifully green and pleasant campus just a few minutes’ walk from Lincoln Cathedral, Castle and the old Roman city. -
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The history of Lincoln
The city of Lincoln has played a historic role in English history, from its Iron Age beginnings through to the modern day, via Roman rule and the Industrial Revolution.
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