Dr Dionne Barton EdD, MA Ed, BEd, SFHEA, RSA

Dr Dionne Barton

Principal Educational Developer (Award and Recognition Lead/Personal Academic Tutoring)

Contact details

Email
d.e.barton@bham.ac.uk
Address
Educational Development Team
Libraries and Learning Resources
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I am the lead for Award and Recognition and the institution’s Teaching Excellence Award Lead (TEAL) for Advance HE. As the Award and Recognition lead, I am leading on raising the profile of education at the institution. I am the lead for Personal Academic Tutoring, supporting staff to develop their expertise in Personal Academic Tutoring. I am a mentor and assessor for the Beacon HEA Professional Recognition Scheme, and I teach across a number of programmes including the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education. I co-lead the Reflective Academic module which part of the Academic Development Programme (ADP) for early career academics.

I am passionate about developing and supporting teaching and learning practice that enhances the quality of the staff and student learning experience. My areas of particular interest are: problem based learning, inclusive teaching and learning, personal tutoring and the student experience. 

I have a liaison role with the College of Life and Environmental Sciences. I am a Senior Fellow of the HEA and a Recognised Senior Advisor of UKAT. I have a leadership role with the UK Advising and Tutoring Association (UKAT) and I am the lead External Examiner for the University of Wolverhampton’s HEA Scheme.

Qualifications

Doctorate in Education (2023) Open University – An Investigation into Staff Perceptions of Personal Tutoring.Recognised Senior Advisor (RSA) (2021)Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) (2016)MA in Education (2015): University of Derby – Problem Based Learning (PBL) in Initial Teacher Education.BEd (Hons) in Primary Education (2004): University of Derby

Biography

I have been teaching in higher education for 13 years having previously been a Primary School teacher. I was an Academic Development Partner at De Montfort University for 2 years leading the HEA professional recognition scheme, Personal Tutor development and training and Continuing Professional Development.  Before that I was a Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education at the University of Derby leading the BEd (Hons) Primary Education programme. I joined the University of Birmingham in June 2018. In 2020 my work with UKAT was recognised as I received an Outstanding Contribution Award for outstanding dedication and service coordinating publications, coordinating, mentoring, and assessing for the Professional Recognition scheme, and as a committee and working groups member. I am passionate about continuing professional development to develop and enhance professional practice to encourage and empower colleagues.

Publications

Ali, M., Barton, D. and McGill, C. (2022) Inquiry in Practice, in McGill, C., Gizerian, S. and Hagen, P. (eds) Scholarly Inquiry in Academic Advising, 2nd Edition, Manhattan, NACADA. 

Barton D., Bottom, K., and Hall, S. (2020) Top 10 Tips for Digital Inclusion. UKAT https://www.ukat.ac.uk/media/1595/top-10-tips-for-digital-inclusion.pdf  

McGill, C., Ali, M. and Barton, D. (2020) Skills and Competencies for Effective Academic Advising and Personal Tutoring, Frontiers in Education. 5:135 https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00135  

How do we future-proof personal tutoring? Educational Development 21(1), 2020, p.14-16.