
Dr Tamsin Hinton-Smith
Post: | Senior Lecturer In Higher Education (Education) |
Other posts: | Faculty (Centre for International Education) |
Member (Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth, Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research) | |
Location: | ESSEX HOUSE EH 147 |
Email: | J.T.Hinton-Smith@sussex.ac.uk |
Telephone numbers | |
Internal: | 7913 |
UK: | 01273 877913 |
International: | +44 1273 877913 |
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Biography
I first came to Sussex as a single teenage parent undergradaute student in sociology many years ago. This led to the development of some of my primary research interests around 'non-traditional' students in higher education, and experiences of (un)belonging and marginalisations. After developing an academic career in Sociology, inlcuding as Co-Director of the Centre for Gender Studies; I moved to the Education department at the University of Sussex in 2014. Here I have continued to develop and expand my interests around peoples' experiences of accessing and participating in compulsory, further, higher and informal educational contexts; and the organisational cultures that support or inhibit this.
Role
I am a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education based in the School of Education and Social Work, and Deputy Director of the University's Centre for Teaching and Learning Research (CTLR). I also lead the University's Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE), a Higher Education Academy accredited professional development pathway for acadmeic staff.
Community and Business
Policy engagement includes:
- Invited Chair,Wilton Park UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Global Strategic Discussion Forum ‘Promoting women's political and economic engagement: ambition for the future’, Higher Education stream
- Green Party Annual Conference – invited panel discussion on ‘Women and austerity’ with party leader
- House of Commons research and policy support: families, children and young people, education, and social inequalities
- Expert advisor for the National Union of Students (NUS) on student parents (Meet the parents 2009)
- Invited expert partiicpation in Student Loans Company Vulnerable Students Stakeholder Group
Community engagement includes:
- Invited speaker, Addressing Unconscious bias in organisations: Transferable learning from the university context. Sussex and Surrey Police annual CPD day
- Local Widening Participation engagement including research skills training support for teachers and Widening Participation practitioners; Widening participation Summer Schools; and Focus groups and interviews with key stakeholders including young people, parents, community groups, teachers and Widening Participation practitioners.