Dr Ellie Hill

Ellie Hill - 2024

Principal Lecturer and Course Leader PGCert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LTHE)

Education and Inclusion

Contact Details

email: ellie.hill@worc.ac.uk
tel: 01905 855076

Ellie is a Principal Lecturer and the Course Leader for the PGCert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LTHE). She has worked as a primary school headteacher, teacher educator and lecturer. Ellie currently also teaches the dissertation module for undergraduates and supervises MA Education and PhD students.

Ellie joined the School of Education at Worcester in 2013, as Senior Lecturer working within the School of Education. Her expertise and interest lie in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, student experience at university, personal values, social justice, reflexive research, narrative approaches to research and inclusion.

Prior to her role at the 51视频, Ellie held a post of Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Northampton for four years. There she was Head of Year 3 BA QTS and supported the trainee teachers as they prepared for their first year as qualified teachers.

The preparation for this role came from Ellie's earlier career in Primary Education which culminated in headship of a village primary school for 5 years. The school was placed in special measures by Ofsted during her first term, thus ensuing an upward climb to leave the school as Good when she moved into lecturing in Higher Education.

Ellie has completed a PhD in Higher Education student experience, using narrative inquiry to find out about Gen Z student values and the impact of the student experience. Her methodological expertise is in narrative methods and reflexivity as a researcher.

Qualifications

  •  
  • PhD in Education
  • MA Policy Studies
  • B.Ed (Hons)
  • NPQH
  • SFHEA (2019)
  • Youth Mental Health First Aider
  • Mental Health First Aider

Teaching and Research

Teaching Interests

  • LTHE4141 Supporting Student Learning in Higher Education
  • LTHE4143 Introduction to Academic Practice
  • EDST3002 Independent Study

Research Interests

  • The values of undergraduate students and the impact of university on their values development.
  • Using a peer debriefer as a reflexive tool in research
  • Teaching and learning in Higher Education
  • Worcestershire primary RE hub- sharing good practice.
  • Independent or dependent study? The evolution of the student’s role in their dissertation

Student as Academic Partners Project

Gibson, L., Griffin, M., Sundari, S., Tully, E., Purcell, S., Courage, K., Hill, E. and Gallagher, S. (2024) ‘Resource Lists as Liberation: Amplifying Lesser-Heard Voices in Education’, Student as Academic Partners Project: Department for Education and Inclusion, Library Services and Decolonising the Curriculum Group, 51视频.

Professional Bodies

  • AULRE- The network for learning, teaching and research in religion and education
  • SACRE- Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education
  • SEDA- Staff and Educational Development Association

Publications

Hill, E., Gossman, P., & Woolley, R. (2024). Using a bespoke, triad narrative analysis approach with Gen Z students: telling the story of their values. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2023.2285628

Hill, E., & Woolley, R. (2022). Religious Education and Its Interaction with the Spiritual Dimension of Childhood: Teachers’ Perceptions, Understanding and Aspirations. Religions, 13(4), Article 280. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13040280 

Presented paper on ‘Using Narrative Inquiry to Understand the Values of Generation Z Students’. Generation Z in Higher Education Conference (2021)

Poster presentation at the Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE) Conference (2019)

Presented paper on ‘Worcestershire primary RE hub- sharing good practice’. AULRE Conference (2018)

Presented ‘Students as Academic Partners’ project UW Teaching and Learning Conference (2018)

‘Excellent RE’ Hub project with 51视频/ Worcestershire SACRE/ REToday and Worcestershire schools (2017-18)

Book chapter: Hill, E. (2017) 'Religion and Belief', in Woolley, R. (Ed.) Understanding Inclusion: Core Concepts, Policy and Practice. Oxon: Routledge

SAP project (2017-18): Developing a learning community for the CEI.

Presented paper on ‘Inside the Bubble’. SocRel Conference (2017)

Poster presentation on ‘PATs and Phase Leads’. UW Teaching and Learning Conference (2017)

REQM (RE Quality Mark) class-based research supervisor

Book chapter: Hill, E. (2014) 'Religious Education', in Dawes, L. and Smith, P. (Eds.) Subject Teaching in Primary Education. London: Sage

Presented Paper on ‘Mindfulness in the Primary Classroom’. Psychology Annual Conference (2014)

 

External Roles

  • Guest Editor for Religions Journal- Special Edition (2021- present)
  • External Examiner BA (Hons) Education Studies- University of Central Lancashire (2016-2021)
  • External Examiner BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS- University of Winchester (2013-2017)
  • REQM (RE Quality Mark) class-based research supervisor (2014 -2016)
  • External Examiner PGCE- Edge Hill University (2012-2014)