PROMOTIONS TO
SENIOR LECTURESHIPS, SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, AND SENIOR
TEACHING FELLOWS
The University Promotions Committee met
on 19 March and agreed the following promotions which
are, as always, subject to the formal ratification of
Senate and Council.
Senior
Lectureships
Graeme Easdown
(Education)
 Graeme Easdown has a national
reputation for excellence in teaching, support for
learning and programme development, his work being
described as exceptionally sophisticated, highly
innovative and very effective. Keele's work in
Teacher Education has benefited from this, including his
development of the Masters in Creative and Critical
Practice and the award of substantial funding from the
Training and Development Agency (TDA) to support
recruitment to this new programme. Outstanding
academic leadership and the development of very
successful partnerships with a range of organisations
contributed to Graeme's recent appointment as Director
of Postgraduate Teaching for the Faculty of Humanities
and Social Sciences.
Mark Featherstone
(Sociology)
 Mark Featherstone is a
Sociologist specialising in the field of critical social
theory and cultural studies, an area where he has
contributed a number of important articles and
monographs. He has played a significant role in
the management of Sociology teaching at Keele, currently
occupying the role of Programme Director of the
Sociology Dual Honours degree. Mark also played a
key role leading curriculum development for the degree
in Media, Culture and Communications. He has also
co-ordinated planning for a new postgraduate programme
in the field of Urban Studies and Urban
Regeneration.
Monte Gates
(Medicine)
Monte Gates is a Problem Based Learning
Tutor in the Medical School and leads the student
selected component of the new Keele curriculum across
all five years of the course. He serves on the
School Learning & Teaching and Central Facility
Committees. Monte's research interest is in neural
stem cell transplantation as a member of the Research
Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine.
He has obtained grants from the Biotechnology and
Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the
Parkinson's Disease Society amounting to £700K,
employing two post-doctoral researchers and a PhD
student. Since moving to Keele from the USA, he
has published 12 papers as principal author and serves
as section editor for the journal Cell
Transplantation.
Barbara Introwicz
(Health and Rehabilitiation)
Barbara Introwicz has had a long and
distinguished career as a Clinical Teacher and was a
founding member of the School of Health and
Rehabilitiation. Her strengths are in postgraduate
training, having designed and led the MSc courses in
both Neuromusculoskeletal Healthcare and led the MSc in
Pain Science & Management. Barbara has also
been instrumental in developing the cross-Faculty
Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Clinical Anatomy as
well as having a major role in external validation of
the undergraduate Physiotherapy degree. She has
also maintained an active role in clinical practice and
is acknowledged by the Chartered Society of
Physiotherapists as a national expert in the field of
Manipulative Therapy.
Christian Mallen
(Primary Care)
 Christian Mallen is a rising star
in academic general practice having been the first GP to
be awarded external Fellowships by the Arthritis
Research Campaign. He is a recipient of the Royal
College of GPs Great Expectations award and has also
been selected to join the prestigious Brisbane
Initiative, the leadership programme for Primary Care
physicians. Christian is a practising GP who is
closely involved in teaching medical students,
postgraduate trainees and mentoring Walport Clinical
Academic Fellows in the Research Institute for Primary
Care and Health Sciences. He has published 20
peer-reviewed papers in major medical journals including
The Lancet, American Journal of Epidemiology and The
British Journal of General Practice.
Deirdre McKay
(Geography/Anthropology)
 Deidre McKay came to Keele in 2008
having had University appointments in Australia and
Canada. She has developed a major programme of
interdisciplinary teaching, with particular emphasis on
environmental and migration studies. She has an
international reputation for her work in the field of
migration and development, with a substantial publishing
record in leading journals. She was a successful
co-applicant for research funding under the AHRC
Diasporas, Migration and Identity Research
Programme.
Jonathan Parker
(American Studies)
 Jonathan Parker can
evidence major achievements in his academic activities
at both School and University level. He designed
the single honours programme in American Studies, was
the first Director of the Complementary Studies
Programme, and received the University Award for
Excellence in Learning and Teaching in 2005. Dr
Parker co-authored the proposal to restructure the
undergraduate degree at Keele, which allows
interdisciplinary choice throughout the degree, and
requires all students to complete a major research
project or equivalent. He also helped write the
University's current Learning and Teaching Strategy as
well as its Assessment Strategy. Dr Parker's
research has concentrated upon higher education policy
and the teaching of Social Science research methods for
which he has received Research Council funding.
Mo Ray (Social
Work)
 Mo Ray was appointed to Keele in 2005 as a
Lecturer in Social Work, combining the post (until 2007)
with an ESRC Research Fellowship. Since then she
has developed substantial teaching and administrative
responsibilities (as Programme Director of the Masters
in Social Work) with extensive research
activities. Her research has focused on the area
of Social Work and older people, with a number of
important books and articles published on this topic.
She is active in a number of external roles in the field
of training and consultancy in Social Work.
Zoe Robinson
(Geology)
 Zoe Robinson is Keele
through-and-through. She took her first degree in
Geography and Geology here, followed by a PhD in
Geoscience, focusing on glacial hydrochemistry. In
the relatively short time since her appointment, she has
had an exceptional impact through her teaching and
outreach activities. Her teaching has been highly
innovative, gaining substantial external funding to
support initiatives in embedding employability skills
and developing sustainability teaching through
innovative modules such as 'Greening Business'.
She has led major teaching initiatives in developing the
Applied Environmental Science degree, and helping to
launch the new interdisciplinary degree in Environment
& Sustainability. Reaching out to a wider
audience, Zoe has run award-winning activities with
school children, teachers, and the general public.
She was part of the Physical Geography team, which
received a Keele University Team Award for Learning and
Teaching Excellence in 2006, and won an individual
Learning & Teaching Excellence Award in 2008.
Ian Stimpson
(Geology)
 Ian Stimpson has made a major
contribution to the teaching of Geology at Keele, at
every University level, from Foundation Year to
postgraduate Masters, and has demonstrated outstanding
innovation His Seismology expertise has been a key
feature of the research at Keele in the measurement of
earthquakes and microtremors. Ian has always been
generous in sharing his expertise, both locally at
Keele, and nationally through the Geography, Earth and
Environmental Sciences Subject Centre. He also has
a passion for sharing his Science more widely, and is
the Natural Sciences Faculty Schools' Liaison
Officer. His outreach activities include a project
to provide local schools with the equipment to monitor
global earthquakes, and he has been instrumental in the
Earth Observatory, part of the £700K refurbishment and
upgrade of the University Observatory.
Senior
Research Fellow
Mark Shapley
(Primary Care)
 Mark Shapley has been promoted to
Senior Research Fellow in the Research Institute for
Primary Care and Health Sciences. Mark has
published extensively whilst continuing to spend the
majority of his time as a GP Principal. His steady
output of high quality epidemiological papers,
particularly focused on menstrual abnormalities, has
underpinned his academic career development. The
influence he brings in this field has been recognised
nationally as the GP representative on National
Institute for Clinical Excellence Panels concerned with
disorders of bleeding and with cancer diagnosis.
Mark also serves on the Editorial Board of The British
Journal of General Practice. His presence at Keele
has been central to the success of Primary Care Sciences
and the GP network which underpins the work of the
Research Institute and the Arthritis Research Campaign
Centre.
Senior
Teaching Fellows
Kelvin Johnstone
(Law)
 Kelvin Johnstone spent
some 20 years as a practising solicitor before coming to
Keele in 2001 to study for an LLM. He joined the
permanent staff as a Teaching Fellow in 2004. In
his first three years at Keele, he developed and led a
new undergraduate module in each year and was part of
the team that won an innovation award for the
development of a 'Virtual Courtroom'. He is Senior
Personal Tutor and Director of Learning and Teaching in
Law with primary responsibility for the development and
introduction of the new undergraduate degree programme
in Law. He continues to sit as a Deputy
(part-time) District Judge on the Northern Circuit.
Martina Wallner
(Humanities)
 Martina Wallner has
played a leading role in course design across a range of
programmes within the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences. She is presently Director of Learning
and Teaching for the School of Humanities. Martina
has been a key member of the group teaching German in
the University. She has also played a leading role
developing and teaching courses on the Media, Culture
and Communications (MCC) degree programme. She is
a Fellow of the Higher Education
Academy.
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