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Sarah Parkes is a Reader in Collaborative Pedagogies and Practice at Newman University, affiliated with the Directorate of Learning, Teaching and Scholarship within the College of Arts, Design, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH). She holds prestigious awards including the 2020 National Teaching Fellow and Newman Distinguished Teaching Fellow titles, alongside multiple recognitions for student partnership work. Her research focuses on transdisciplinary approaches to student success, leveraging learning analytics and diffractive analysis to address issues like the digital divide and undergraduate retention.
**Educational Background**: Doctoral thesis on diffractive analysis (2023), with extensive prior academic and professional service roles.
**Research & Teaching**: Leads the PG Cert in HE Practice and CPD routes to PSF Fellowship, specializing in flipped classrooms, online pedagogies, and hy-flex teaching. Her work emphasizes collaborative practices, mattering theory, and the role of affective relationships in student progression. She chairs Assessment Boards and Validation Panels, and co-founded the Romero Freire Institute.
**Awards Overview**:
- 2020 National Teaching Fellow
- 2019 Advance HE Teaching Excellence Award (CATE)
- Newman Students’ Union Excellence Awards
- Times Higher Education finalist for student support
**Grants & Projects**: £96,055 HEfCE/OfS-funded Catalyst project (2016-2018), exploring pedagogic interventions via learning analytics. Active in professional networks like the Society for Research into Higher Education and EFYE Network.
**External Roles**: External examiner for Abertay University’s AHEAD programme, and member of strategic groups including the Retention and Continuation Task Group and AI Interest Group.
