About

What we do

The Academic Enhancement and Professional Development (AEPD) is a unit within the OTL with the remit to supporting and developing staff in enhancing teaching standards, designing assessment, building an inclusive curriculum and the delivery of our accredited teaching qualifications in higher education.

Led by the Lead Academic Developer the AEPD implements Education Group teaching, learning and assessment policies and new pedagogic approaches including active learning and leading on curriculum design to ensure the courses are decolonised and inclusive across the Education Group.

The AEPD supports teaching staff across the group to deliver best practice and work to enhance standards. The AEPD also supports International and UK partners.

The AEPD supports the development of teaching learning and assessment across the Education Group with the following primary functions:

  1.  To support teaching academics across the Group in curriculum build and design, assessment design and quality procedures. The team will also have responsibility for delivery, and design of a portfolio of development activities for academic teaching staff to deliver best practice in teaching learning and assessment and the development and monitoring of a framework for academic staff in engagement in Continuing Professional Development.
  2. Delivery and development of accredited professional development provision to support the strategic Group target for the proportion of staff with a recognised teaching qualification. This provision includes the Academic Professional Apprenticeship, PgCert in Academic Practice in Higher Education and the Coventry University Framework for Professional Accreditation (CUFPA). The team has responsibility for the delivery and monitoring of Teaching Observation across the Education Group
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AEPD Team 

Contact email: aepd@coventry.ac.uk

AEPD Lead

Martin Jenkins

Academic Development Team

Brinder Rajpal 

Chris Haycock 

Christina Magkoufopoulou

Jane Ojiako 

Misrah Mohamed 

Susan Bray

Tamar Maclellan   

Admin Support Team

Nikki Cartwright 

Sonia Davit