Staff profiles

The Oxford Centre for Academic Enhancement and Devemopment (OCAED) employs experienced developers with expertise in HE teaching and supporting learning, course design for online and face-to-face delivery, educational scholarship, research, and development.

Professor Jenny  Lawrence

Professor Jenny Lawrence

Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Oxford Centre for Academic Enhancement and Development

As Director of OCAED I have strategic responsibility for ensuring Brookes’ academic enhancement and development responds to institutional priorities and supports our learning community in furthering Brookes’ strategic ambitions. I serve and chair various university committees and working groups. I am an Aurora, Research and Principal Fellow mentor. 

 Nicola  Beer

Nicola Beer

Principal Lecturer, Head of Digital Inclusive Curriculum Enhancement

I joined Oxford Brookes in January 2022 and work strategically to create and lead opportunities for programme teams to improve their curricula, ensuring that they exploit the best of Oxford Brookes digital tools, systems and platforms, and support all students to benefit from HE.

Dr Mary  Kitchener

Dr Mary Kitchener

Principal Lecturer, Head of Academic Development

Mary Kitchener EdD PGCE (Post-compulsory) SFHEA MA (Education) BSc (Hons) Psychology with Business Psychology is a Principal Lecturer for Education and Student Experience.  Mary works as an Educational Developer and leads the Advance HE accredited provision. She is the scheme leader for EXPLORE Taught provision; our initial teacher preparation scheme for academics to gain Advance HE Fellowship recognition.

Dr Sue  Morón-García

Dr Sue Morón-García

Principal Lecturer for Education and Student Experience

I joined Oxford Brookes University in October 2020. I work with individual academics and teams to develop scholarly approaches to teaching and learning.

  • OCAED Scholarship of Teaching and Learning lead.
  • Lead for Talking Teaching across the Globe webinar series.
  • Facilitator of Talking Academic Practice (CPD sessions for OCAED educational developers).
Dr Adrian J.  Wallbank

Dr Adrian J. Wallbank

Principal Lecturer for Education and Student Experience

I began working at Oxford Brookes in 2021 as an Educational Developer. I lead the General Teaching Assistants (GTA) course for doctoral students and associate lecturers/affiliates who teach, teach across the EXPLORE programme and I am SoTL lead for both the inclusion and assessment components of the Brookes IDEAS Inclusive Curriculum Development Model as well as acting as OCEAD Teaching and Learning Community Lead. A key focus of my work is assessment as, of and for learning, inclusion, inclusive pedagogies, transition pedagogies, writing to learn pedagogies, neurodiversity and staff development/academic practice.

 Ben W.  Walker

Ben W. Walker

Senior Lecturer, Educational Development

I am a Senior Lecturer in Educational Development within the Oxford Centre for Academic Enhancement and Development and joined Oxford Brookes in November 2021. I teach on the EXPLORE programme (supporting colleagues to gain Fellowship of Advance HE) and am a strategic and professional development lead for the university’s Academic Advising provision. In addition, I am the EXPLORE Experiential Scheme Lead (overseeing Fellowship of Advance HE applications) and the Managing Editor of Teaching Insights, Oxford Brookes University’s teaching and learning publication. A keen writer and researcher in education with over 20 years’ experience in teaching and teacher education, I am committed to developing the field of student support further. As co-author of practitioner texts and journal articles on personal tutoring/academic advising, I am at the forefront of professional development and research in this area.

 Sam  Folley

Sam Folley

Lecturer and Digital Learning Developer

I began working at Oxford Brookes in 2022 as a Digital Learning Developer, in 2023 I also took on the role of Educational Developer. My role often focuses around Digitally enhanced teaching and content development. I deliver on the EXPLORE programme and GTA course.

 Kat  Kwok

Kat Kwok

Educational Research Fellow

I lead on and contribute to research that supports and informs the activities of the Oxford Centre for Academic Enhancement and Development and the University more broadly. My work includes a mix of internal and externally-funded research, which generally pertain to HE pedagogy, and staff and student experiences.

 Kikelomo  Ladipo

Kikelomo Ladipo

Educational Researcher

I began my journey at Oxford Brookes University in March 2023 as Educational Researcher at the Oxford Centre for Academic Enhancement and Development (OCAED). The overall purpose of my role is to assist in conducting a range of pedagogic and evaluative educational research on the reach, value and impact of projects for Enhancing the Student Experience.

Prior to joining Oxford Brookes, I worked across Student Support, Quality Assurance, Accreditation and Academic Planning as a HE regulator in Nigeria. I have also worked as Associate Tutor and Academic Developer at the School of Education, University of Leicester.