Meet the Team

Dr John Couperthwaite

Dr John Couperthwaite

Operations Manager (Educational Technology)

John is Operational Manager (Educational Technology) in the College of Medical and Dental Sciences and manager of the Educational Technology Team. He provides a leading support role for the design and implementation of technology enhanced learning across the College, and the development of staff and student intraMED portal systems, and manages all other projects within the Team.

Telephone +44 (0)121 415 8172

Email j.couperthwaite@bham.ac.uk

Mr Marcus Belben

Mr Marcus Belben

Elearning Developer

Marcus is an eLearning Developer and part of the Educational Technology Team. Marcus provides development support for eLearning projects, working collaboratively with teaching staff and students to develop effective learning across the College.

Telephone +44 (0)121 415 8832/07784302283

Email m.belben.1@bham.ac.uk

Ms Lesley Clarke

Ms Lesley Clarke

Web / eLearning Developer

Lesley is a Web/eLearning Developer within the Educational Technology Team (EdTech) and works on School websites - School of  Health & Population Sciences and School of Immunity and Infection, Postgraduate courses within WebCT and teaching & supporting staff and postgraduate students in Reference Manager

 

Telephone + 44 (0)121 414 6773

Email l.clarke.1@bham.ac.uk

Miss Sara Jones

Miss Sara Jones

Senior Administrator

Sara is the Senior Administrator of the Educational Technology Team. She provides support for all technology enhanced learning across the College, including WebCT, Echo 360, Panopto and Athens, plus assisting with the maintenance of both staff and student intraMED portal systems

Telephone +44 (0)121 415 8832

Email s.l.a.jones@bham.ac.uk

Mr Dalbir Kang

Mr Dalbir Kang

Senior eLearning Consultant

Dalbir is principally responsible for all current eLearning resources and all new eLearning development projects. Dalbir works closely with the Medical Education Developers, Academics and Consultants on specific projects to combine the technical and pedagogical approaches. His skills include animation, video production, eLectures and basic programming in ASP.NET.

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 6936

Email d.kang@bham.ac.uk

Mr James Kelly

Mr James Kelly

eLearning Developer

James is the ecourse Developer and part of the Educational Technology Team. James is building the new version of ecourse, a dedicated e-learning site for the School of Dentistry.

Email j.kelly.1@bham.ac.uk

Mr Shawn Mayall

Mr Shawn Mayall

Web Manager

Shawn is Deputy Lead for the Educational Technology Team, and Web Manager for the College of Medical and Dental Sciences. Shawn also provides additional eLearning development support to the eLearning Consultants as the principal video editor in the team. His skills include web design, copywriting, animation, and multimedia production.

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 6936

Email s.mayall@bham.ac.uk

Dr Michael Parry

Dr Michael Parry

Senior Systems Developer, Educational Technology Team

Mike is the Senior Systems Developer in the College of Medical and Dental Science’s Educational Technology Team. He is the coordinator for the staff and student web-based administration systems and leads the development of both staff intraMED and the Practice Placements Administration System (PPAS).

Telephone +44 (0)121 415 8086/414 4243

Email m.a.parry@bham.ac.uk

Miss Angela Slater

Web Officer

Angela Slater is Web Officer for the College of Medical and Dental Sciences and her background is primarily in video and television with more recent experience in web design and multimedia.

Working closely with the Research Facilitators, Angela promotes and communicates the College’s research via the University’s main external site and other outlets.

Email a.c.slater@bham.ac.uk

Mr Christopher Withers

Mr Christopher Withers

REAMS System Developer

Chris holds the position of REAMs Systems Developer; and is developer for both staff and student administration systems within the College of Medical and Dental sciences. Chris handles development of Student Intramed and works closely with the MBChB office to create bespoke applications, supporting their day-to-day operations.

Telephone +44 (0)121 414 4243

Email c.withers@bham.ac.uk

Mr Andy Wright

Mr Andy Wright

Distance Learning Developer

Andy is the College’s Distance Learning Developer, who specialises in all aspects of the design, creation, implementation and evaluation of online courses and resources. He is an expert consultant on various eLearning software solutions and instructional design methodologies. When he’s not refining course architecture he’s usually to be found playing his flamenco guitar in a ...

Telephone +44 (0)121 415 8832

Email a.wright.2@bham.ac.uk