Category: Professional Development
This space captures the ongoing, iterative nature of my growth as an educator and clinician. Here, I reflect on moments of learning, shifts in perspective, and the evolving practices that continue to shape my professional identity. Whether through formal training, collaborative projects, or unexpected challenges, each entry is part of a broader process of refinement—an attempt to remain both critically engaged and meaningfully connected to the work I do.
PGDip Module 4 – Supporting Academic Professional Development
Towards the end of my Postgraduate Diploma in Policy and Practice in Higher Education, the module Supporting Academic Professional Development asked something different of me. Not another policy analysis, nor another deep dive into pedagogy, but a drawing together—of ideas, of experiences, of identity. It was a culminating moment, and a quietly transformative one. The… Continue reading PGDip Module 4 – Supporting Academic Professional Development
PGDip Module 3 – Teaching & Research Practice
During my Postgraduate Diploma in Policy and Practice in Higher Education, I encountered a module that both challenged and sharpened my academic and professional sensibilities: Teaching and Research Practice. This wasn’t just another credit-bearing exercise — it was a deliberate pause, a structured opportunity to turn the lens inward and ask: How do I know… Continue reading PGDip Module 3 – Teaching & Research Practice
PGDip Module 2 – Assessment & Feedback – Reasons & Methods
I came into the Assessment and Feedback module knowing that assessment shaped my students' learning more powerfully than perhaps anything I taught — and left it with a far more critical, strategic, and inclusive sense of how it could be designed to truly serve that learning. This was the second module in my PGDip in… Continue reading PGDip Module 2 – Assessment & Feedback – Reasons & Methods
PGDip Module 1 – Inspirational Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
I undertook the Inspirational Teaching and Learning in Higher Education module as part of a Postgraduate Diploma in Policy and Practice in Higher Education. Positioned at the intersection of pedagogic theory and lived practice, this module was more than an academic requirement — it was a challenge to reimagine what it means to teach well,… Continue reading PGDip Module 1 – Inspirational Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
I’m Registered!
June 2017 This is it! My time in West Yorkshire comes to an end for now, 3 years of hard work was all worthwhile - I'm officially a Physiotherapist! The University of Bradford will always hold a special place in my heart for the support and high quality teaching - I'm so inspired that I… Continue reading I’m Registered!
Dean Walker 