Helen Hewertson

Helen Hewertson is a Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Social Science. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy who has taught at various levels and to learners with various abilities and ages. She is course leader on the Foundation Year programme in the School, and is module leader for several modules. Helen also supervises Psychology dissertations and does guest lectures for Sociology. She is involved in the Education research group and her main publications are around educational research and equity and how this intersects with psychology and sociology. She is also interested in media representation and culture. Her current research is on transitions to university and the strengths mature students bring to Higher Education.

Helen's interests and teaching experience are varied. She teaches study skills, critical thinking, research methods and digital literacy for the foundation year. She has been asked to guest lecture on anime, gender in sci-fi, stereotypes and representation in the media. Helen has also taught sessions for sociology on participatory action research and media representation. She has published around research-informed teaching, curriculum development, educational technology, and intersectional imposter syndrome.

Helen is on the steering group of the British Conference for Undergraduate Research (BCUR) and is a founding member. She also chairs the Pedagogic Research Forum (PRF) and is involved with the annual UCLan learning and teaching conference.

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Dillon, M. and Hewertson, H. (2013) The UCLan Research Academy: Supporting students with their capstone research projects
Re-energising undergraduate research methods pedagogy in education
Liverpool Hope University 18th June 2013
Hewertson, H. (2012) Companion Animals: Interactions and relationships
International Society for Anthrozoology Conference; Arts and Sciences of Human-Animal Interactions
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK. 11 - 13 July 2012
Mahoney, P. Hewertson, H. Gotaas, J (2010) The Magic Pens project
ALT-C; "Into something rich and strange" - making sense of the sea-change, 7th September 2010
Hampton-Reeves, S. Mashiter, C. Hewertson. H (2009) Using and Abusing the Internet to Access Research: Reflections on a Study of Student Research Behaviour
International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation- ICERI2009 16th -18th November 2009
Hewertson, H. What makes a really good learner? What do students believe? Improving Student Learning – For the 21st Century Learner; The 17th Improving Student Learning Symposium, Imperial College London, UK, 7 –9 September 2009

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