Curriculum Development: curriculumdev@bath.ac.uk
The Curriculum Development team is a group brimming with diverse expertise in teaching and learning across the HE sector and beyond. Collectively, we support and deliver the University's Education Strategy through development, implementation, and day to day management of the Curriculum Transformation project and other University priorities. 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.
Curriculum Development Officer
Briony acts as the Humanities and Social Sciences Liaison and Student Engagement with Research Specialist for Curriculum Transformation.
Curriculum Development Officer
Jo supports the Faculty of Engineering and Design and the Education Department (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) and is also Employability Specialist for Curriculum Transformation.
Curriculum Development Officer
Kate supports curriculum development activity across the University, including through Curriculum Transformation and the Bath Blend. She has a particular interest in wellbeing and resilience in the curriculum.
Curriculum Development Officer
Abby acts as the School of Management Liaison and Inclusivity Specialist for Curriculum Transformation.
Scholarship and Activity
Find out more about the team's contribution to research and practice in teaching and learning matters.
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
The University of Bath’s Student Engagement Ambassadors represent an innovative attempt to engage students as active partners in their education. The Ambassadors are current students employed and co-managed by the Students’ Union and Centre for Learning & Teaching. The poster charts the opportunities and challenges experienced by the SEAs as they have attempted to establish partnerships with key communities through meaningful interactions that build upon and extend existing understandings of student engagement activity.
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)
The paper builds on the authors’ experiences of supporting disabled students to suggest specific teaching adaptations which might benefit the whole cohort’s diverse learning needs. The authors offer ideas for mainstreaming what have up to now been specialist teaching techniques by identifying and responding to patterns of difficulties common across student cohorts and moving away from delivering largely individualised support, defined by somewhat arbitrary labels - linguistic, cultural, social or disability.
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
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
Developing intercultural understanding in HE
Dr Eleanor Parker
Co-led masterclass at EduFest Learning and Teaching Conference, University of Bath, May 14th 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
Demonstrating Institutional and Educational Excellence through Curriculum Transformation
Dr Briony Frost and Jo Hatt
Presentation at PEDRIO conference, University of Plymouth, November 2019
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.
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
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
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
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
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)
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
Curriculum Development resources and activity

Curriculum Development Resources
Guidance, tools, and resources to support curriculum review, development, and delivery activity across the University.
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Curriculum Transformation
Curriculum Transformation is a major initiative to redesign all UG and PGT courses at Bath, embedding key curriculum principles across all of our provision.
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