Case Study
Kirsten Hardie a Principal Lecturer in Graphic Design History and Theory, Kirsten graduated with BA (Hons) History of Design & the Visual Arts, Staffordshire Polytechnic, 1985 and gained an MA in Graphic Design, Leicester Polytechnic in 1986. Kirsten started teaching in 1987 and has developed an international reputation for innovative approaches to learning and teaching and a passion for design.
She was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship (Experienced Staff category) and £50,000 to support a learning and teaching project, by the Higher Education Academy in 2004. She is a lifelong NTF and committee member of the Association of National Teaching Fellow (see:www.heacademy.ac.uk/3949.htm and heacademy website).
Kirsten has extensive teaching experience across a range of levels and disciplines within art, design and media. Her passions, research and scholarly activities extend across a range of diverse fields. Working internationally, cross-discipline, creating and developing learning and teaching case-studies and materials, her activities extend to a significant number of collaborative and advisory roles across HE – including External Examinerships.
In 2004 Kirsten was invited to attend Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 2 Reception at Buckingham Palace in Celebration of the British Design Industry and Excellence in Teaching.
Kirsten’s research includes scholarship of teaching and learning in art and design; creativity; packaging design; kitsch and flock. She has authored a range of articles and papers and is an experienced conference and event organiser. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Flockage: the flock phenomenon – the world’s first flock exhibition, co-curated with Pam Langdown - and co-founded the Flock Friendly Group.
She created her home institution’s registered design museum and works with museums and design objects. In 2004 Kirsten secured an AHRC award to support the collaborative project – www.plasticsnetwork – that focused upon the University College’s registered Museum plastics collection (MoDiP).
A popular speaker and workshop facilitator, she has presented at many conferences in the UK, Europe, Canada, USA and Australia and networks internationally with educational establishments and design organisations. Her membership includes: Executive Committee Design History Society (2004-2008); AIGA, ISSOTL, and STLHE. She is Vice Chair of Reference Group Higher Education Academy Art Design and Media Subject Centre (2009) and Chair 2010. She is committee member of the ANTF.
Kirsten's NTF award funded the development of her On Trial project: experiential, student-centred, problem-based role play learning and teaching. Inspired by the mock trial of legal education/practice and in the popular media, she works with colleagues cross-discipline to develop this learning experience. On Trial work is used extensively across a variety of contexts internationally. She is currently completing a website to make more public her On Trial work; to enable others to adopt and adapt accordingly. Kirsten’s Project embraces a variety of research strands that relate to her core interests:
- innovative methodologies and materials re: problem based
learning
- strategies for ‘teaching without talking’ – student based
learning - exploration of cross-discipline approaches to learning
and teaching
- how scholarship of teaching and learning exists within HE art,
design & media and how it is encouraged, supported, rewarded
and disseminated
- design objects from HE collections and museums and learning and
teaching.
Kirsten is member of the 'Creative Interventions: valuing and assessing creativity in student work-related learning in the public and not-for-profit sectors' NTF Group Project (2008-2010), working with colleagues from the University of the Arts London and the University of Surrey.
Her learning and teaching research themes: threshold concepts; problem-based learning; groupwork; visual plagiarism; and notions of excellence and reward schemes.
Publications: examples re: related NTF work
Hardie, K. 2007. On Trial: teaching without talking – creativity in learning and teaching through the use of popular culture and law. Available from: URL <www.ukcle.ac.uk/newsevents/contributiondetail.html?event=387&contribution=82 > [Accessed 2007 Feb 4].
Hardie.K. 2007. On Trial: teaching without talking – teacher as silent witness in Art,Design and Communication in Higher Education, 5:3, pp. 213-226,doi:10.1386/adch.5.3.213/1
Hardie,K. 2007. On Trial: Teaching without Talking. Conference proceedings: ConnectED International Conference on Design education, University of New South Wales, Sydney: Australia.
Hardie. K. (2008). Excellence and Teaching Fellows In Networks. Issue 3. Spring.ADM HEA. pp. 20-21
Please see also: Kirsten’s summary in the HE Academy NTF Scheme Celebrating Excellence publication 2006.
Related learning and teaching conference
papers: indicative examples
2009 - numerous On Trial workshops
nationally - including Leeds Met. Uni. Southampton Solent
University; University of Warwick – with co-facilitators students
James Addison; Kate Gullick; Zoe Williams; Katia Moffatt and
graduates Joe Barnes and Rose Stewart.
Dec. co-organiser of Out of Studio Learning and Teaching Symposium,
AUCB.
2008
Nov. re: Threshold
Concepts, at ISSOTL conference, Alberta, Canada co-presented with
Director of Learning and Teaching UCCA
June. workshop on creativity & teaching, MeCCSA Postgraduate
Conf. Uni. of Sussex.
2007
Dec. Unspoken
Interactions Conference, University of the Arts, London.
Nov. Co-presented with Sally Brown and Phil Race Keynote at SEDA
Conference, Birmingham
Sept. Design History Society Design/Body/Sense Annual conference,
Kingston Uni.
Sept. BIAD (Birmingham City University) Annual Learning &
Teaching Conference.
July. ADMHEA Learning and Teaching Conference, Goodenough
College
July. AIB Annual Learning and Teaching Conference.
June. ConnectED International Conference on Design Education, UNSW
Sydney, Australia.
June. ISSOTL Conference, Sydney Australia, – joint paper with
Professor Stephen Towers of Queensland University of Technology,
plus own paper on ‘Teaching without Talking’. Society of Teaching
& Learning in HE conference, University of Alberta, Canada
May. 2 conference papers at the AIGA (American Institute of
Graphic Arts - Intent/Content Conference, Tennessee; SoTL in ADM;
On Trial.
April. Learning Development in Higher Education Network Symposium,
Bournemouth University
March. Design and Pedagogy Conference, Leeds College of Art and
Design. Keynote speaker at ADMHEA Network event at Bath Spa
Uni.
Feb. Leeds Metropolitan University Staff Development Event.
Jan. UCCA Annual T&L Conference, British Library
Jan. Presented with x2 BA(Hons) Graphic Design students Keir Cooper
and Lindsay Noble at HEA Subject Centre for Legal Education Annual
Conference, University of Warwick
Jan. Creativity or Conformity? Building cultures of creativity in
HE International conference, UWIC
2006
Dec. AIGA Design Frontier: Design
Educator’s Conference, Denver, USA.
Nov. SoTL in Art, Design and Media at International Society for the
Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Annual
Conference,Washington, D.C. USA
July. Knowledge and its Communities Conference HEA Annual
Conference, UK
June. Society for Teaching and Learning in HE Annual Conference
Toronto, Canada
2005
Oct. International scholars workshop
International Society of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
June. Multinational Scholars Forum, Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island, Canada - Focusing upon how the scholarship of teaching and
learning is encouraged by institutions. Selected as one of 8
National Teaching Fellows to represent the HE Academy.
Vendome design, flocked wallpaper, Glencraft Collection by Macgregor Wall Coverings, c.1968, USA.