DrKate Ippolito
Principal Lecturer
Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship - Central Faculty
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- Principal LecturerCentre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship - Central Faculty
- 020 7594 8789 (Work)
- Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Kate is Deputy Director of the Educational Development Unit and a Principal Lecturer in the Centre for HE Research and Scholarship (CHERS) at Imperial College, London. She is Director of Postgraduate Studies and was Programme Director of Imperial's Master's in University Learning and Teaching (ULT) between 2016 - 2024. She teaches and supervises on all 3 levels of this part-time MEd programme and teaches undergraduates on the iExplore Science of Learning module. Kate also runs the following workshops:
Introduction to Personal Tutoring at Imperial
Introduction to Making Teaching More Inclusive
Introduction to Team-based Learning (TBL)
Practical guide to working with emotion in university learning and teaching
Kate is the co-chair of the CLCC-CHERS Faculty Education Committee and member of the Programmes Committee and Faculty of Natural Sciences Education Committee.
Prior to joining Imperial College in 2013 Kate spent 6 years as an Educationalist at the Royal College of Physicians, leading the UCL/RCP PG Medical Education programmes and running Doctors as Educators courses. Previously Kate was a lecturer on the PGCert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at Brunel University.
Kate completed a Masters in Higher and Professional Education at the Institute of Education in 2005 and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She completed a part-time PhD at Imperial College entitled: Socially constructing emotion in STEMM university learning and teaching: Implications for emotion-informed curricula and engagement.
Kate also has a particular interest in how students learn from role modelling and making university teaching and learning inclusive of all students.
Awards
2018 Excellence Fund for Learning and Teaching Innovation used to develop face to face and online workshop Understanding Specific Learning Difficulties / Differences: Inclusive strategies for learning
2017 President’s Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Excellence in Supporting the Student Experience
2017 Finalist in Higher Education Academy Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence
Imperial College Student Academic Choice Award (SACAs) nominee 2015, 2016 and 2017
Introduction to Personal Tutoring at Imperial
Introduction to Making Teaching More Inclusive
Introduction to Team-based Learning (TBL)
Practical guide to working with emotion in university learning and teaching
Kate is the co-chair of the CLCC-CHERS Faculty Education Committee and member of the Programmes Committee and Faculty of Natural Sciences Education Committee.
Prior to joining Imperial College in 2013 Kate spent 6 years as an Educationalist at the Royal College of Physicians, leading the UCL/RCP PG Medical Education programmes and running Doctors as Educators courses. Previously Kate was a lecturer on the PGCert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at Brunel University.
Kate completed a Masters in Higher and Professional Education at the Institute of Education in 2005 and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She completed a part-time PhD at Imperial College entitled: Socially constructing emotion in STEMM university learning and teaching: Implications for emotion-informed curricula and engagement.
Kate also has a particular interest in how students learn from role modelling and making university teaching and learning inclusive of all students.
Awards
2018 Excellence Fund for Learning and Teaching Innovation used to develop face to face and online workshop Understanding Specific Learning Difficulties / Differences: Inclusive strategies for learning
2017 President’s Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Excellence in Supporting the Student Experience
2017 Finalist in Higher Education Academy Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence
Imperial College Student Academic Choice Award (SACAs) nominee 2015, 2016 and 2017
DEGREES
- PhD, EducationImperial College London, London, United Kingdom21 Oct 2019 - 31 Jan 2025
FACULTY
- Central Faculty
POSITION NAME
- Principal Lecturer