13 October 2025 13:00 – 14:30

Led by Professor John Mitchell, UCL

Hosted by Middlesex University’s Dr Homeira Shayesteh, Pedagogic Research Group Lead for the Faculty of Science and Technology with support from the Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement (CAPE).

Aim:

This session will consider the importance of pedagogic research, and in particularly how it relates to the support of large-scale educational change in STEM and Engineering disciplines. The session will outline the need for educational research as both a means to inform curriculum development, but also as an enabler of innovation in the classroom and as a support for teaching staff. It will cover platforms for publication and give some examples of best practices in this area. 

Biographical Note:

John Mitchell is Professor of Communications Systems Engineering and Head of the UCL Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, and Co-director of the UCL Centre for Engineering Education. Between 2012 and 2016 he was on secondment to the UCL Engineering Sciences Faculty office, where he led the introduction of the Integrated Engineering Programme, a major revision of the curriculum across the engineering faculty. He has a background in optical and wireless access technologies including contributions to Fibre-to-the-home networks and 5G front-haul. He has published widely on curriculum development, active learning and issues of diversity within engineering education. From 2015 to 2022 he was Vice-Dean Education of the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences.

Professor Mitchell is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and National Teaching Fellow, President of the Engineering Professors’ Council, Vice-President Publications of the IEEE Education Society and was until recently a Member of the Board of Directors of the European Society for Engineering Education and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Education. In 2024 he was awarded the Leonardo Da Vinci Medal of the European Society for Engineering Education.

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