Dr Jo Maddern
Learning & Teaching Development Coordinator
A degree in geography and an ESRC funded PhD examining the construction of knowledge and popular pedagogies at Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York.
A postgraduate certificate in personal and business coaching.
Contact
Email: oam@aber.ac.uk
Office: G19, Cledwyn / School of Education and Lifelong Learning, Aberystwyth University,P5 Penglais Campus , Aberystwyth, Ceredigion. SY23 3UX.
Phone: 8523/ 1929
Fax: 01970 622982
Responsibilities
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Director of the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in HE (PGCTHE)
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Coordination of teaching skills programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
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Graduate Teaching Skills
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Teaching enhancement and development
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Leadership module
Research
- Published research has explored:
- The production of popular pedagogies at hegemonic sites such as Ellis Island immigration museum
- Mobility and Identity production
- Current research focuses on:
- The use of coaching in academic and professional development
- Comparative analysis of international teaching training in HE programmes.
- 2010 SEDA small grant for evaluating the impact of the collaborative PGCTHE across Wales.
Awards
2011 Learning and Teaching Enhancement Fund: Creating an Online Digital Archive of Teaching Innovation (with Dr. Nicky Chapman and Graham Lewis).
Biography
Dr Maddern pursued a degree in geography and an ESRC funded PhD examining the construction of knowledge and popular pedagogies at Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York. During this time she was a visiting fellow at the Graduate Centre of City University, New York. After this, she spent several years as a lecturer in Dundee University , before returning to Aberystwyth to take up her current role. In 2010 she undertook a leadership development course and social action research projects in India and completed a postgraduate certificate in personal and business coaching. In 2011 she has been awarded a Senior Visiting Fellowship at the Centre for Learning and Teaching, Windsor University, Ontario. She is also a mentor on the WUMS programme (Welsh Universities Mentoring Scheme). She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Licentiate member of the National Council of Psychotherapists (LNCP).
Staff Publications
2011
Hoskins, G and Maddern, J (2011) Immigration Stations: The Regulation and Commemoration of Mobility at Angel Island, San Francisco and Ellis Island, New York, in Cresswell, T and Merriman, P (eds) Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects. Ashgate. London
2010
Maddern, J and Stewart, E (2010) Biometric Geographies, Mobility and Disability: Biologies of Culpability and the Biologies Spaces of (Post)modernity, in Chouinard et al (eds) Towards Enabling Geographies: ‘Disabled’ Bodies and Minds in Society and Space. Ashgate. London.
2008
Adey, P and Maddern, J (2008) Editorial: Spectrogeographies, Cultural Geography, Vol 15, no 3
Maddern, J (2008) Spectres of Migration and the Ghosts of Ellis Island, Cultural Geography, Vol 15, no 3
2006
Maddern, J. (2006) “The Battle over Annie Moore: Sculpting an Irish-American Genealogical Identity at Ellis Island Immigration Museum”, in Heritage, Memory and the Politics of Space: New Perspectives on the Cultural Landscape (edited by Y. Whelan and N. Moore), Ashgate, London.
2004
Maddern, J. and Desforges, L. (2004) “Front Doors to Freedom, Portal to the Past: History at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York”, Journal of Social and Cultural Geography. (theme issue on ‘place and memory’ edited by D. Alderman, S Hoelscher and O. Dwyer).
Maddern, J. (2004) “Huddled Masses Yearning to Buy Postcards: The Politics of Producing Heritage at Ellis Island Immigration Museum,” Current Issues in Tourism (theme issue on ‘politics of world heritage’ edited by M. Hitchcock, also published by Channel View in hardback).
Maddern, J. (2004) ‘The Isle of Home is Always on Your Mind: Subjectivity and Space at Ellis Island Immigration Museum’, in Tourism, Diasporas and Space: Travels to Promised Lands (edited by T. Coles and D. Timothy), Routledge, London.
External examining:
External Examiner at Southampton Solent University, for modules within the Postgraduate, Law and Education Department.
External Committees and Networks
UCET International Committee Member
EsCalate Subject Centre Contact.
Consultancy and Collaboration
2 day workshop delivered to the Centre for Teaching and Learning Development, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on ‘Assessment for Learning’, 2011.
5 day summer school on ‘Teaching and Learning in Higher Education’ hosted by SELL & CDSAP for delegates from the Centre for Teaching and Learning Development, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Paper delivered to the academic development centre at the University of Pune, India on ‘Welsh perspectives on Educational Development’, 2009