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Dr Lynne Wyness

Associate Professor in Academic Development

School of Education

01752 636700

lwyness@marjon.ac.uk


Lynne Wyness

Role Summary

I am Programme Leader for the online Masters programme in Professional Education Practice and work on academic development across the university, including piloting and implementing the Marjon Curriculum Framework. I lead two modules on the PGCAP (Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice) and work with new academics at Marjon.


Qualifications

Advanced Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring (over 125 hours coaching experience, accredited by ILM Level 7 and Association for Coaching) (2020)

PhD in Human Geography, University of Exeter (2012)

MSc Sustainable Development, University of Exeter (2008)

Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), Swansea University (1993)

BA (Hons) Geography, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (1991)


Teaching

  • PEPM01 Insights into Learning and Teaching
  • PEPM02 Learning and Teaching Online
  • PEPM03 Culture, Community, and Curriculum
  • PEPM04 Coaching and Mentoring in Educational Contexts
  • PEPM05 Professional Practice Enquiry
  • EDCM01 Introduction to Teaching and Learning
  • EDCM02 Enhancing Teaching and Learning
  • EDCM03 Introduction to Pedagogic Research
  • EDCM04 Introduction to Research Management


Research

  • Values-based Digital Learning and Transformation
  • Mental health and wellbeing in Higher Education
  • Entrepreneurship Education
  • Sustainability Education
  • Interdisciplinary learning
  • Geographies of education

Funding

  • HEFCE Catalyst funding for innovation project (2016): Learning for the Future, £50,000.
  • HEA funding for literature review (2016): Access, Retention, Attainment, Progression: What works? (Co-investigator with Dr. Oli Webb and Professor Debby Cotton), £14,905
  • PedRIO funding for teaching innovation project (2015): ‘The Sea and Me: A collaborative arts/science project
    exploring marine environmental awareness and communication through photography.’ (with Heidi Morstang and Dr. Simon Ingram) £8000
  • PedRIO funding for pedagogic research project (2014) ‘Different Languages, Shared Goals? Exploring the Potential for Merged Pedagogies in Enterprise Education and Sustainability Education’ (with Professor Paul Jones, Swansea University) £9873

Conferences

Wyness, L. and Purnell, E. (2018). 'Where am I? Where am I going? Navigating the Higher Education experience with the Plymouth Compass'. AAEEBL/CRA International Seminar ePortfolios & More: the Developing Role of ePortfolios within the Digital Landscape. Dublin City University, Ireland. 23-25 May 2018.

Wyness, L. and Jones, P. (2015). Different Languages, Shared Goals? Starting a conversation between Enterprise Education and Sustainability Education. European Conference of Educational Research (ECER), Budapest, Hungary. 8-11 September 2015.

Wyness, L. (2015). ‘Talking of citizenship…’ Lessons from an intergenerational social learning project to promote active citizenship in a sustainable community. World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC), Gothenburg, Sweden. 29 June – 2 July 2015.

Wyness, L. and Jones, P. (2015). Different Languages, Shared Goals? Exploring the Potential for Merged Pedagogies in Enterprise Education and Sustainability Education. World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC), Gothenburg, Sweden, 29 June – 2 July 2015.

Wyness, L. and Jones, P. (2015). Learning from the other: starting a conversation between Enterprise Education and Sustainability Education. PedRIO Fourth Annual Conference, Plymouth University, UK, 17 April, 2015.

Wyness, L. (2012). Sustainability in the Curriculum.  VC’s Conference for Teaching and Learning, Plymouth University, July 2012.

Wyness, L. (2012). Global Partnerships as Sites for Mutual Learning: research findings.  ESRC project final conference, Millennium Point, Birmingham, June 21-22, 2012.

Wyness, L. (2011). Global Partnerships as Sites for Mutual Learning: research findings.  North-South Educational Partnerships, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, November 2011.

Wyness, L. (2010). Global school partnerships: Converging geographies of education and development. RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, September 2011.

Wyness, L. (2010). Placing geographies of global citizenship.  Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference, Washington, USA. April 2010. 


Publications

Smith, B., & Wyness, L. (2024). What makes professional teacher development in universities effective? Lessons from an international systematised review. Professional Development in Education, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2024.2386666 

Wyness, L. & Jones, P. (2018). Boundary crossing ahead: perspectives of entrepreneurship by sustainability educators in Higher Education. Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2018.1493338

Wyness, L. & Dalton, F. (2018). The value of problem-based learning in learning for sustainability: undergraduate accounting student perspectives. Journal of Accounting Education, 45, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccedu.2018.09.001

Warwick, P., Wyness, L. & Conway, H. (2017). ‘Think of the future’: Managing educational change from students' perspectives of an undergraduate sustainable business programme. The International Journal of Management Education, 15 (2017), pp. 192-204.

Webb, O. Wyness, L. & Cotton, D.R.E. (2017). Enhancing Access, Retention, Attainment, and Progression: a review of the literature showing demonstrable impact. York: Higher Education Academy. https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/enhancing-access-retention-attainment-andprogression-
higher-education

Wyness, L., Jones, P. and Klapper, R. (2015). Sustainability: what the entrepreneurship educators think, Education + Training, 58: 8/9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ET-03-2015-0019

Turner, R., Huang, R., Poverjuc, O. and Wyness, L. (2015). What role do teaching mentors play in supporting new university lecturers to develop their teaching practices? Professional Development in Education. DOI: 10.1080/19415257.2015.1065898

Sterling, S., Warwick, P. and Wyness, L. (2015). Understanding approaches to ESD research on teaching and learning in Higher Education. In Routledge Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development (eds. Matthias Barth, Marco Reickmann, Ger Michelson and Ian Thomas). Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon.

Wyness, L. (2015). (ed.) Education for Sustainable Development Pedagogy: Criticality, Creativity, and Collaboration, PedRIO Occasional Paper 8, Plymouth University.

Wyness, L. (2015). (ed.) Education for Sustainable Development: Towards the Sustainable University, PedRIO Occasional Paper 9, Plymouth University.

Wyness, L. (2015). Starting a new conversation between Enterprise Education and Sustainability Education. In Marking Ten Years of the Centre for Sustainable Futures: Sustainability Education in Motion (edited by Paul Warwick), Plymouth University.

Wyness, L. & Sterling, S. (2015). Reviewing the incidence and status of sustainability in degree programmes at Plymouth University. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 16:3

Wyness, L. (2013). ‘Talking of citizenship…’ Exploring the contribution an intergenerational participatory learning project can make to the promotion of active citizenship in a sustainable community. Local Environment: International Journal of Sustainability and Justice, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2013.839645

Turner, R., Schoenborn, P. and Wyness, L. (2013). Evaluation of a university teaching fellowship scheme as a tool to promote pedagogic research and development’, Educational Development, 14:2

Martin, F & Wyness, L. (2013). ‘Global Partnerships as Sites for Mutual Learning’, Irish Development Education Association (online journal).

Wyness, L. (2012). Sustainability in the Curriculum: A review of the incidence and status of sustainability in degree programmes in Plymouth University. Centre for Sustainable Futures, Plymouth University.

Wyness, L. (2011). Book review of ‘The Aid Triangle’. Progress in Development Studies, 11:2, pp. 176-178


Expert Membership of professional bodies

Senior Fellow of Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy)


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