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Dr Lucy Anderson

Staff Tutor In Life, Health And Chemical Sciences

School of Life, Health & Chemical Sciences

l.a.anderson@open.ac.uk

Biography

Biography

Professional biography

Current roles and appointments

  • Staff Tutor in School of Life Health & Chemical Sciences
  • SD329 Module Team Chair
  • SK299 Lifecycle Review Chair and Module Team Member
  • SXH390 Link Staff Tutor
  • Staff tutor on SDK100, S290, SK299, SD329, SXH390

Previous roles and appointments

  • Lead and LHCS rep on STEM ST meeting committee
  • Member LHCS AL Staff Development Working Group
  • MRP Chair SK299
  • Link Staff Tutor S295
  • Associate Lecturer (SK277, SK299, SK298, S350, SD329) 
  • Assistant Staff Tutor in School of Life Health & Chemical Sciences
  • Contributor, Facilitator and Presenter on Student Hub Live

 

Qualifications

  • Fellowship:  Advance HE (2021)
  • Ph.D. Biological Sciences: MRC Institute of Hearing, University of Nottingham, (2005)
  • B.Sc. (Hons) Physiology: University of Glasgow (2000) 

 

Research interests

Scholarship:

  • Co-lead of project to evaluate use of Virtual Reality  tutorials on a level 3 undergraduate neuroscience module
  • AL committee: Student view of feedback, Trial enhancements and what WISEFlow needs to do next (2021)

Lab-based research interests:

  • Using cross-disciplinary approaches to investigate how altered inputs to the brain affect physiological outcomes.
  • Auditory neuroscience; effects of ageing, genetic manipulations, noise exposure and electrical stimulation (cochlear implants) on neural coding of hearing.

 

Awards

STEM recognising excellence award for academic community and collegiality (with committee colleagues)

Winner: Most engaging and immersive session 14th eSTEeM Annual conference

 

Other

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

Interested in Staff Development supporting STEM STs and Science ALs in their ongoing development.

Monitoring of correspondence tuition and quality assurance

Supervision of post-graduate research students at UCL and University of Southampton

Publication of 18 research papers

Academic editorial work: Peer reviewer for anatomy, physiology and neuroscience journals, national and international research funding bodies.