Mr John Dermo
Professional Services
Current positions
Academic Developer
Biography
John Dermo is Academic Development Lead within Salford Academy of Education, having worked in Educational and Academic Development for over two decades. He is Programme Leader for the university PGCAP programme and leads the Salford Accredited Learning and Teaching (SALT) Fellowship Recognition Scheme, as well as being Teaching Excellence Awards Lead for the university, also institutional learning and teaching contact for Advance HE. In these roles he leads on professional development for Learning and Teaching across the institution and coordinates the support for university staff applying for the different categories of Advance HE fellowship, as well as nominations for National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) and Collaborative Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE).
John has supported colleagues in the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies for many years, working with programme teams and the school leadership team to enhance practice in Education across the school, and now works closely with the development of the insitutional Education Delivery Plan. John is an active member of SEDA, HEDG, the Advance HE Accredited Programme Leader network, the Advance HE Friends of the North group, as well as the Teaching Excellence Awards Lead network.
Over the course of the last two decades, John has led educational projects and events for HEFCE, Advance HE, JISC and SEDA around innovative assessment and assessment literacy, and has published articles in Educational Developments, Practitioner Research in HE, Student Engagement in HE Journal, Multicultural Education and Technology Journal, International Journal of e-Assessment and British Journal of Educational Technology, and is a reviewer for a range of international peer-reviewed journals around academic development and assessment, such as Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, Practitioner Research in HE, Innovations in Education and Teaching International, and Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice.
Areas of Research
Authentic Assessment in Higher Education
Inclusive curriculum design
Educational Development
Academic Development
Programme Leader on the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP)
Scheme Leader for Salford Accredited Learning and Teaching Fellowship Recognition scheme (SALT).
Teaching Excellence Awards Leader.
Institutional contact for Learning and Teaching, Advance HE.
Qualifications
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PG Dip Educational Research
2023 -
PG Dip Research Methods in Social Sciences
2016 -
MA Teaching English
1998 -
Diploma in Teaching English
1991 -
Postgraduate Certificate in Education
1991 -
BA (Hons) Modern Languages
1987