Heather Sears
Dr Heather Sears, BSc PhD
Researcher Skills Senior Training and Development Officer
Tel: 0113 34 37479
h.j.sears@adm.leeds.ac.uk
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Heather is responsible for assisting faculties and the University to implement additional generic skills training for funded by the 'Roberts' monies. Please contact Heather with queries relating to Roberts funding and Faculty based training for postgraduate research students and/or research staff.
Heather's first degree is in Biological Sciences (which included a year at the University of Lund, Sweden) from the University of East Anglia. She stayed at UEA to complete her PhD in microbiology, followed by two post-docs (UEA and University of Oxford) continuing her work on periplasmic nitrate reductases, authoring ten peer-reviewed papers as a result.
After a short period helping small businesses write European funding proposals, Heather moved to the University of Leeds in 2000 and helped to establish the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Bioscience. At the Subject Centre Heather worked with bioscience academics across the UK promoting and supporting good practice in all aspects of support for the bioscience student learning experience. Heather was involved in a wide rage of activities including workshop design and facilitation, project support, commissioning and editing of publications, evaluation and strategy development evaluation and developed a special interest in linking teaching and research. She is one of the editors of:Self- and Peer assessment – guidance on practice in the Biosciences and has publications relating to a range of issues in learning and teaching.
In July 2004 Heather joined SDDU as the Postgraduate Training and Development Officer.
She is a Editorial Board member of the Bioscience Education Journal. In September 2006 Heather was licensed as an in-house Springboard facilitator and in September 2010 gained accreditation to administer and provide feedback on the MBTI Step I instrument.