Dr Maxine Gillway
B.A.Hons.(H.-W.), M.A.Tefl.(R'dg)
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Whether as academic leader or academic teacher, I aim to help others help themselves. I am fascinated by the complex relationship between beliefs, behaviour and context, and how these three interact in learning.
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Biography
I have been the Director of the Centre for Academic Language and Development at the University of Bristol since 2016. I have worked at the University of Bristol since 2008 in various leadership roles and received the Dean’s award for Education in 2013. Prior to this, I spent 2 years as academic manager of an EFL Department in a college of Further Education.
Before returning to the United Kingdom in 2006, I worked in a number of international contexts for 21 years – teaching at language schools in Greece and Spain, and leading on curriculum and assessment in Higher Education in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
I served on the BALEAP executive committee for 8 years (2012-2020) as ordinary member and then Chair. As well as serving as a member of the BAS accreditation scheme, I am also a BALEAP Senior Fellow and have served as mentor and assessor since 2016. I also gained Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (now Advance HE) in 2017.
I believe strongly in collaboration and brought the BALEAP biennial conference to Bristol in 2017 on the theme of ‘working together = learning together’, as well as editing the conference proceedings. While maintaining a wider interest in curriculum and assessment, and developing an interest in educational leadership, in 2020 I completed an EdD thesis combining my interests in feedback and teachers’ beliefs entitled ‘An exploration of the depths of feedback: Bringing the beliefs of academic teachers to the surface’.