Dr Marios Hadjianastasis PFHEA

Principal Educational Developer (Beacon Advance HE Professional Recognition Scheme Lead)

Contact details

Email: m.hadjianastasis@bham.ac.uk

Address: Educational Development Team
Libraries and Learning Resources
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I have worked at the University of Birmingham since 2005 in various roles. I support staff development in a number of areas, through Educational Development-based programmes, as well as ad-hoc support in Colleges. My areas of specialisation are:

Learning theories and scholarship of teaching and learning
Critical pedagogy
Research-intensive learning and teaching
Authentic and formative assessment
Learning outcomes and constructive alignment
Philosophy of education
Education research
Programme leadership

I am a member of the Educational Development team in Libraries and Learning Resources, and also the programme lead for the Beacon Professional Recognition Scheme, which is an experiential recognition pathway for Advance HE fellowships. I am a member of the editorial board of Education in Practice journal.

I am an accreditor for Advance HE, working on their direct application pathway.

I am a member of the editorial committee of the SEDA Educational Developments journal.

Qualifications

2025 Principal Fellowship of the HEA (Advance HE)
2015: Senior Fellowship of the HEA
2011: Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (University of Birmingham)
2004: PhD in Ottoman History, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies (University of Birmingham)
1997: BA in Turkish Studies (University of Cyprus)

Biography

I have worked in areas of educational development since 2007, and have a broad range of expertise. I am very interested in supporting curriculum development and programme leads in particular, as there is need for more structured support and professional development.

I am also very interested in supporting colleagues to utilise research-intensive approaches to teaching and learning. I am working closely with Alison Davies to support Higher Education research and scholarship into teaching and learning, and I am a member of the UK SoTL Alliance.

In the past I worked as a lecturer in history at the University of Crete and the University of Birmingham. I also worked as a learning skills specialist and a learning technology consultant in the College of Arts and Law. I have been involved in the scholarship of teaching and learning since 2009.

Research

My current research focuses on critical pedagogy and philosophy of education in an era of marketisation of higher education. I am specifically interested in consumerism and its impact on the curriculum, teachers and students. I am also interested in the areas of:

Research-intensive learning and teaching
Programme leadership and professional development
Educational development
Assessment and feedback
Emotions of learning
Compassionate pedagogy and empathy

Publications

2022: “Authentic assessment for academics: Reflections from the University of Birmingham PGCHE”, Educational Developments, 23 (2), pp. 14-17.

2021: “Higher education as a product: A concept tested during pandemic times”, Educational Developments, 22 (3), pp. 1-5.

2021: “Quality and Qualifications: the value of centralised teaching courses for postgraduates who teach”, International Journal for Academic Development (with Els Van Geyte).

2016: “Learning outcomes in higher education: assumptions, positions and the views of early-career staff in the UK system”, Studies in Higher Education, 2016, pp. 1-17.

2016: “Podcasting in the STEM disciplines: The implications of supplementary lecture recording and ‘lecture flipping.’”, FEMS Microbiology Letters, Published online January 2016.

2015: (with Petia Petrova) “Understanding the varying investments in researcher and teacher development and enhancement: implications for academic developers”, International Journal for Academic Development, 20 (3), pp. 295-99