Dr Julia Horn SFHEA

Dr Julia Horn

Principal Educational Developer (PGCHE lead)

Contact details

Email
j.r.horn@bham.ac.uk
Address
Higher Education Futures Institute
Top Floor, Old Gym
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I am programme lead for the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education. I am also a mentor and assessor for the Beacon scheme and College liaison for the College of Social Sciences.

My areas of particular interest are: inclusive teaching and learning; and effective teaching and learning practices for the future (learning from the pandemic, using multimedia technologies for online and blended learning, AI).
I am a Senior Fellow of the HEA and a qualified coach.

Qualifications

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Certificate in Coaching for Leadership (2021); Tavistock Institute
  • DPhil French Studies (2004); University of Cambridge
  • MPhil European Literature (2000); University of Cambridge
  • MA (Hons) French and Linguistics (1998); University of Oxford

Biography

I have joined the University of Birmingham in 2023 after spending 13 years as an Educational Developer at the University of Oxford. In Oxford I designed, developed and led teaching development programmes for doctoral researchers and a PGCert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education for early career academics. I was head of the Educational Development Group in Oxford for 3 years, and subsequently set up an educational development function at the Saïd Business School in Oxford from 2020-2023, where I had the privilege of working closely with learning designers and establishing processes for high-quality online course design and development.