The Curriculum Development team is a group brimming with diverse expertise in teaching and learning across the HE sector and beyond. We work collaboratively with colleagues campus-wide, research, prepare and disseminate a variety of resources, and offer specialist advice aligned with best practice in pedagogy and the guiding themes and principles of the institution.
Meet the Team
Curriculum Development Manager
Robert manages the Curriculum Development Team within the Centre, addressing a wide range of teaching and learning issues across the institution.
Liz Beaven
Curriculum Development Officer
Liz acts as a Faculty of Science Liaison for Curriculum Transformation.
Jo Charles
Curriculum and Academic Staff Developer
Jo acts a Faculty liaison for Curriculum Transformation and has a particular focus on academic staff development needs.
Scholarship and Activity
Find out more about the team's contribution to research and practice in teaching and learning matters.
Understand, engage, act: A student-staff collaborative framework for enhancing feedback literacy and co-creation of feedback opportunities in HE curricula
Dr Robert Eaton, Prof John Chew, Dr Karen Angus-Cole, Dr Matthew Lennox, Dr Clare McMullin, Dr Briony Frost, Abby Osborne
Paper presented at Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2022: Teaching in the spotlight: Where next for enhancing student success? Northumbria University, July 2022
Understand, engage, act: A student-staff collaborative framework for enhancing feedback literacy and co-creation of feedback opportunities in taught chemical engineering degrees
M. Lennox, J. Chew, R. Eaton, K. Angus-Cole, C. McMullin, B. Frost, A. Osborne
ChemEngDayUK 2022, University College London, April 2022
A course-wide approach to curriculum development (Forthcoming)
Dr Briony Frost, Abby Osborne, Dr Kate Mattacks, and Dr Robert Eaton
Brighter Future – Opportunities for Educational Change, SEDA Spring Conference, TBC
Patterns beyond labels: reframing inclusive learning and teaching
Abby Osborne and Dr Robert Eaton
Inclusion and Inclusivity in Higher Education, Training of the Trainers webinar, University of Crete, May 2021
The design and delivery of a workshop to support curriculum development, education for sustainability and students as partners: Sustainability in your curriculum - identify, improve, inspire!
Angus-Cole KL, Eaton R and Dawes M.
Emerald Open Res 2020, 2:60 (https://doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.13878.1)
Intentionally scaffolding the development of independent learning in first year
Dr Robert Eaton, Dr Briony Frost, Abby Osborne, Jo Hatt, Dr Kate Mattacks
Delivered as part of EduFest 2021, University of Bath, May 2021 (view Panopto recording)
Embedding employability and transferable skills in the curriculum: a practical, multidisciplinary approach
Maria De Rodanas Valero, Tom Reid, Ghislaine Dell, David Stacey, Jo Hatt, Yvonne Moore & Sally Clift
Diversity for Everybody, Achievement for All, Patterns Not Labels
Ivan Newman, Christina Healey, Abby Osborne & Vivien Newman
NADP Journal of Inclusive Practice Issue 10, Winter 2018. (pp.80-105)
Demonstrating Institutional and Educational Excellence through Curriculum Transformation
Dr Briony Frost and Jo Hatt
Presentation at PEDRIO conference, University of Plymouth, November 2019
SEApower: Navigating Student Engagement in Curriculum Transformation
CLT Student Engagement Ambassadors, Curriculum Development Team, and Student Engagement Team
Poster presentation at RAISE Special Interest Group meeting, University of Westminster, January 2019
Seeing the curriculum through a sustainable lens: developing student understanding of the scope of sustainability
Matthew Dawes, Dr Karen Angus-Cole and Dr Robert Eaton
Workshop delivered at PEDRIO conference, University of Plymouth, 12 April 2019
Helping students ‘settle in’ – managing the transition from applicant to student
Dr Eleanor Parker
Co-led workshop delivered at UCAS Annual Admissions Conference, Celtic Manor Hotel, Newport, April 9th 2019
Developing intercultural understanding in HE
Dr Eleanor Parker
Co-led masterclass at EduFest Learning and Teaching Conference, University of Bath, May 14th 2019
Going beyond the label: reframing the narrative of disability support and inclusive practice
Abby Osborne and Dr Robert Eaton
Workshop delivered at the SAILS conference, Swansea University, May 2019
The SEAs of Curriculum Transformation: Student Partners Building Student Partnerships
Dr Briony Frost, Dr Karen Angus-Cole, Jo Hatt, Abby Osborne, Dr Robert Eaton, Matthew Dawes, Alice Palmer-Ross, Luke Parr, Tamara Reid
Workshop delivered at the SEDA conference, Belfast, May 2019
It's everywhere! Shifting students' perceptions of the scope of sustainability
Matthew Dawes, Dr Karen Angus-Cole and Dr Robert Eaton
Workshop delivered at the EUAC Influence Conference, University of Manchester, June 2019
Patterns beyond labels: reframing inclusive teaching and learning in the context of inclusive feedback design
Abby Osborne and Dr Robert Eaton
Workshop delivered at the Inclusive Practice Network conference, University of Bath, June 2019
Towards Equity in the Curriculum
Dr Andrew Pitchford & Dr Robert Eaton, Bath and Dr Anne Foley, UWE
Workshop delivered at 'Equity through curriculum transformation: the future of widening participation?', Western Widening Participation Research Cluster Annual Symposium, 5th June 2018, University of Bath
A Strategic Approach to Transforming the Curriculum
Dr Dawn Albertson
Invited International Address at the National Science Foundation’s STEM Education 2026: Workshop on Assessment, Evaluation, & Accreditation. Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2018.

Contact us
Email the Curriculum Development Team or contact your relevant Faculty/School liaison officer directly.
Updated on: 14 May 2021