Dr Janette Wallace

Professional biography

Current roles and appointments

• Staff tutor and Senior Lecturer in School of Life Health & Chemical Sciences
• Qualification Director MSc.Mental Health Science
• S390 Module Team Chair
• SD816 Co-Module Team Chair
• SXH890 Module Team Chair
• Associate Lecturer Health Sciences including SK298 and SXH390 

Previous roles and appointments

• Module team Chair SXH390
• EDI Lead in School of Life Health & Chemical Sciences
• Module Team Chair- production/rewrite S390 
• Co-Chair Science AL Staff Development Working Group
• Member STEM new AL Induction Staff Development Working Group
• Associate Lecturer (SD226, SDK228, SDK100, SXL390) 
• Assistant Staff Tutor in School of Life Health & Chemical Sciences
• Member Monitoring Implementation Group

Qualifications

Ph.D. Neuropsychopharmacology, University of Wales, Swansea (1999)  

M.Sc. Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London (1995)

B.Sc. (Hons) Pharmacology, University of Sunderland (1994)

Senior Fellowship Advanced HE  

Research interests

Scholarship:

Co-lead of project to facilitate and evaluate the use of virtual reality tutorials within the school of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences. https://university.open.ac.uk/scholarship-and-innovation/esteem/projects/themes/facilitating-evaluating-use-virtual-reality-tutorials-within-school-life-health 

Co-lead of a project to evaluate Digital Assets to support LHCS Students’ Sense of Belonging’. Evaluation of Digital Assets to support LHCS Students’ Sense of Belonging | eSTEeM

Co-lead of project to evaluate the impact of practical and dataset project options to the science undergraduate capstone module (S390). Previous project choices focused on literature reviews, with a new addition of pratcial or data set options. Impact of introducing new practical and dataset project options to the science undergraduate capstone project module (S390) | eSTEeM (open.ac.uk)  

Co-lead Pan-university/APP scholarship project ‘Cross-faculty scholarship of monitoring’ Cross-faculty Scholarship of Monitoring (sharepoint.com)

Lead: eSTEeM project Evaluating student perspectives of different types of learning events provided on SDK228, a level 2 LHCS module. http://www.open.ac.uk/about/teaching-and-learning/esteem/projects/themes/supporting-students/evaluating-student-perspectives-different-types-learning-events

Interested in educational research around AL development specifically induction of new ALs to the school and faculty. Involved in two projects relating to this:

Co-lead with Hannah Gauci: eSTEeM project ‘Assessing the effectiveness of the induction process for novice Associate Lecturers in preparing them for the Associate Lecturer role’. (http://www.open.ac.uk/about/teaching-and-learning/esteem/projects/themes/other/assessing-the-effectiveness-the-induction-process-novice-associate-lecturers)

Co-lead with Hannah Gauci: eSTEeM project Evaluating a new STEM AL induction programme

http://www.open.ac.uk/about/teaching-and-learning/esteem/projects/themes/other/evaluating-new-stem-al-induction-programme

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Previous research as an AL: OU Personalised Integrated Learning Support (PILS) consultant ‘ students’ motivational levels during the 2008 presentation of SD226.’ (2008)

​Previous lab based research interests:

Anhedonia, ​motivation and reward, ​neuroscience 

Teaching interests

Qualification Director MSc.Mental Health Science

Current modules:

S390: Science project course (30 credits UG) Module Team Chair (presentation)

S826: Introduction to Mental Health Science (60 credits PG) Module Team

SD816: Core topics in mental health science: psychosis and dementia (60 credits PG) Module Team

Previous modules

SXH390: Health Sceinces (30 credits UG) Strand Chair (presentation)

SXL390: Science project course: research biology and health sciences (30 credits UG) Module Team

SD329: Signals and perception: the science of the senses (30 credits UG) Module Team (Deputy Chair)

SK298: Brain, mind and behaviour (30 credits UG) Module Team

SDK228 Science of the mind: investigating mental health (30 credits UG) Module Team

SD816: Core topics in mental health science: psychosis and dementia (60 credits PG) Module Team

Other

Interested in supporting women in leadership: recent completion of Advanced HE Aurora programme and Aurora mentor (Aurora | Advance HE (advance-he.ac.uk)

Interested in AL Staff Development including ALs new to the OU and supporting Science ALs in their ongoing development.

Monitoring of correspondence tuition and quality assurance