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Dr Linda Robson

Senior Lecturer And Staff Tutor In Engineering And Innovation

School of Engineering & Innovation

linda.robson@open.ac.uk

Biography

Current responsibilities

I am currently on secondment 2 days a week to the Open programme where I am production chair for the reision of YXM130 Marking you learning count, and Qualification Director for the MA/MSc Open masters programme. 

In my substantive post within the School of Engineering and Innovation I currently manage Associate Lecturers on undergraduate module U116 Environment, and postgraduate module T891 Making environmental decisions. 

From January 2025 I am Scholarship lead for the school 

Research interests

I am currently working towards a Doctorate in Education, looking at the experiences of students who take a deferral of their studies. 

My other research has focused on three key themes: academic development, supporting students and staff with disabilities and communications with students.

Teaching interests

I am currently Production chair for a new version of YXM130 Making your Learning Count. 
I have been module presentation chair of T198: Engineering at Work, YXM130 Making your Learning Count, T227: Change, strategy and projects at Work and T171: You, your computer and the internet. Previously I have been on the production teams for T219: Environmental Management, TU100: My Digital Life, T180: Living with the Net, T209 Information and communication Technologies and Y064: Exploring Sport Online.

 

External collaborations

I am a Senior Fellow of SEDA and act as an assessor for fellowship applications. 

I have held a number of External Examiner appointments, currently EE for foundation programmes at Keele University and Adren University. 

Publications

Book Chapter

Accessibility Challenges in Mobile Learning (2015)

Journal Article

Linking Public Art to Research (2023)

National Association of Disabled Staff Networks (NADSN) – “Our Stories: Experiences from our Disabled Staff Networks across the UK” (2016)

Providing sandwiches: optimising feedback at the education picnic (2014)

Enablingstaff@OU – Supporting Integration In The Workplace (2014)

Other

We want to be educated, but we have a life (2023)

Doctoral Journey Poems (2022)

Reliability of memory (2022)

Presentation / Conference

Creating interdisciplinarity (2024)

We want to be educated, but we have a life: challenges to part-time learner persistence. (2024)

Student negotiated assessment deadlines: Useful flexibility or additional admin? (2023)

Alternative approaches in academic development: Delivering between a rock and a hard place (2023)

Using an Urban Art Collection to stimulate research thinking (2022)

‘Student on hold’: a poetic exploration into part-time distance learner experiences of deferral (2022)

Poetic Insight into Student Motivation and Experience (2022)

Higher Education – A Mechanism To Support Well-Being And Mental Health (2021)

Preparing school leavers transitioning to online higher education: a case study (2021)

‘Open Box’ curriculum at the Open University – How we are helping students to make their learning count (2021)

Student motivations and choices in a ‘pick and mix’ curriculum module at the Open University, UK. (2020)

Part-Time Distance Learners’ Experiences Of Study Breaks (2020)

Developing a Community of Practice to Support Academics Engaging in Distributed Scholarship (2017)

Correlation of Feedback Comments with Student Attainment on an Open University Module (2017)

Student experience of university email communication (2016)

Developing the developers – supporting development of online conference presentations (2015)

Scholarship beyond the main campus - supporting the pursuit of scholarship in a distributed institution (2015)

Additional help, additional problem – issues for supported dyslexic students (2014)

Digital development – experiences offering staff development using the student’s online learning environment [Oral presentation] (2014)

Exploring the highs and lows of developing, organising and running an online conference for the CPD of lecturers (2013)

Thesis

Students on hold: Part-time distance learner experiences of unplanned deferral. (2025)