National Teaching Fellow
Kirsten Hardie National Teaching Fellow
Arts University College at Bournemouth email: khardie@aucb.ac.uk Tel: 01202 363305
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 Dec. 1986. Kirsten started teaching in Jan.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 Fellows.
(see: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/contacts/detail/ntfs/2004/Hardie_Kirsten_2004)
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. She works with a number of NTFs.
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. She created her home institution’s registered design museum. In 2004 Kirsten secured an AHRC award www.ahrc.ac.uk/awards/search_results.asp to support the collaborative project – www.plasticsnetwork – that focused upon the Institute’s registered Museum plastics collection (MoDiP). From 2008-2010, working with colleagues from the University of the Arts London and the University of Surrey. Kirsten was Project Leader on the 'Creative Interventions: valuing and assessing creativity in student work-related learning in the public and not-for-profit sectors' NTF Group Project which secured an HEA funding award of £200,000. This project involved students from across the partner universities working together.
A popular speaker and workshop facilitator, Kirsten continues to present at many conferences in the UK, Europe, Canada, USA and Australia and networks internationally with educational establishments and design organisations.
Kirsten’s learning and teaching research themes are varied and include: threshold concepts; problem-based learning; groupwork; visual plagiarism; and notions of excellence and reward schemes. In particular she is interested in:
- how scholarship of teaching and learning exists within HE art, design & media and how it is encouraged, supported, rewarded and disseminated.
- how design objects from HE collections and museums can be used as learning and teaching resources – case study on toilet brushes.
In 2007 as Chair of ADMHEA Teaching Fellowship Scheme Steering Group, Kirsten was key creator of framework for this scheme.
Fig. 1 On Trial log designed by Jonathan Cleave, AUCB BA (Hons) Graphic Design, 2009.
Fig. 2 Publication: On Trial: teaching without talking. IN Heller, Steven (2009) Design School
Confidential: Extraordinary Class Projects from International Design Schools. Rockport.
pp.40-43.
On Trial Project
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 students and colleagues cross-discipline to develop this learning experience. On Trial work is used extensively across a variety of contexts internationally. 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.
On Trial workshops have been staged nationally - including Leeds Met. Uni; Southampton Solent University; University of Warwick. In 2007 Kirsten presented with AUCB BA(Hons) Graphic Design students Keir Cooper and Lindsay Noble at HEA Subject Centre for Legal Education Annual Conference, University of Warwick. Her research relating to this project has been published extensively.
Publications: examples related to NTF work
Hardie, K. Kirsten Hardie. 2010. IN Recognising Success: voices from ten years of the National
Teaching Fellowship Scheme. York: Higher Education Academy. pp. 22-23
Hardie, K. et al 2010. All Rise… IN Networks: the magazine of the Art, Design and Media
Subject Centre. ADMHEA. Issue 9. Spring.
Hardie, Kirsten. 2010. On Trial. AUCB UCNEWS Issue 2, Spring. AUCB. p.3
Hardie, K. 2009. On Trial: teaching without talking. IN Heller, Steven (2009) Design School
Confidential: Extraordinary Class Projects from International Design Schools. Rockport. pp. 40-43.
Hardie. K. 2009. ISSOTL Annual Conference. Networks: the magazine of the Art, Design and Media
Subject Centre. ADMHEA. Issue 6. Spring. p.15
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. 2008. Excellence &Teaching Fellows In Networks. Issue 3. Spring. ADM HEA. pp. 20-
21
Hardie , K. 2008 .The Power of Wow: the exclamation that makes and breaks silence in Warland,
Betsy. Silences in teaching and learning. Canada: STLHE & 3M Fellows. pp.139-142.
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.
Intersections (2007) HE Academy Subject Centre: ADM Annual Forum, RIBA, London – interview
published in DVD.
Hardie, K. 2006. Fellow’s success stories: Kirsten Hardie. Celebrating Excellence: 6 years of the
NTFs. York: Higher Education Academy. pp. 14-15.
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Fig. 3. On Trial at Playing with Learning 2: Making connections conference, University of
Warwick. Co-facilitators AUCB students.
Fig. 4. On Trial event 2010, BA(Hons) Graphic Design students, AUCB
Learning and Teaching Event Organisation
2011 Key organiser of Parrot: AUCB Annual Learning and Teaching Conference
2009 Ongoing Designs on Learning collaborative cross institute BA(Hons) Graphic Design research
symposium with AUCB, UWIC and University of Coventry
2008 Co-organiser of Out of Studio Learning and Teaching Symposium, AUCB.
2007 Co-organiser Schools & AUCB Plastic Carrier Bag: Victim or Villain? events
2005 Co-organiser AIB AHRC plasticsnetwork.org Symposium & Exhibition
Conference Papers and Presentations
2011
Co-author of paper (with Annie Grove White) Designs on Research, Writing Pad Co-
author with Annie Grove White of two articles on Designs on Research.
2010
Co-author (with Carolyn Bew, ADMHEA) re: cross discipline learning &
teaching Fellowship Schemes, Challenging the curriculum exploring the discipline
boundaries in art, design and media. CLTAD Conference, Berlin
Designer Learning; cross institution creative collaboration; Society for Teaching and Learning
in Higher Education; Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. 23-26 June 2010. Co-author
with Annie Grove-White, Principal Lecturer, UWIC.
2009
Engaging with International Academics at AUCB Learning & Teaching Conference
Co-presenter with Carolyn Bew (ADMHEA), HEA Annual Conference, Manchester University
The Museum, the toilet brush and the student: engaging student learners,
enriching learning and energising teaching paper at the Collecting Experiences Conference,
V&A, London
Co-facilitator (with Julia Waite) Plastic Carrier bag: Victim or Villain? Workshop, Collecting
Experiences Conference, V&A, London.
NTF Group workshop Committing to a reputation for teaching and learning at The Guardian
HE Summit, London
2008
Co-presenter with Hilaire Graham, Dean Learning & Teaching, UCA paper on Threshold
Concepts in Art and Design at Celebrating Connections ISSOTL Conference, Canada
For they’re a jolly good fellow: are teaching award schemes excellent? Celebrating
Connections ISSOTL Conference, Canada
Creative connections when interrogating notions of plagiarism- Celebrating Connections
ISSOTL Conference, Canada
Workshop on creativity & teaching, MeCCSA Postgraduate Conf. Uni. of Sussex.
2007
Unspoken Interactions Conference, University of the Arts, London. Co-presented with Sally Brown and Phil Race Keynote at SEDA Conference, Birmingham; Design History Society Design/Body/Sense Annual conference, Kingston Uni.; Keynote speaker BIAD (Birmingham City University) Annual Learning & Teaching Conference; ADMHEA Learning and Teaching Conference, Goodenough College; Keynote AIB Annual Learning & Teaching Conference. 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; conference papers at the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts - Intent/Content Conference, Tennessee; SoTL in ADM; On Trial. Learning Development in Higher Education Network Symposium, Bournemouth University; Design and Pedagogy Conference, Leeds College of Art and Design; Keynote speaker at ADMHEA Network event at Bath Spa Uni.; Leeds Metropolitan University Staff Development Event; Keynote UCCA Annual T&L Conference, British Library Creativity or Conformity? Building cultures of creativity in HE International conference, UWIC
2006
AIGA Design Frontier: Design Educator’s Conference, Denver, USA; SoTL in Art, Design and Media at International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. USA; Knowledge and its Communities Conference HEA Annual Conference, UK; Society for Teaching and Learning in HE Annual Conference Toronto, Canada
2005
International scholars workshop, International Society of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Vancouver, Canada. 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.
Professional membership includes:
- Chair of Reference Group Higher Education Academy Art Design and Media Subject Centre (ADMHEA) (2010 - ) and Vice Chair of Reference (ADMHEA 2009-2010).
- Member of ADMHEA Management Advisory Board 2010
- Committee member of the Association of National Teaching Fellows
- Executive Committee Design History Society (2004-2008) – Learning & Teaching Officer 2008
- American Institute of Graphic Arts
- International Society for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Society of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Peer Reviewer/Assessor roles include:
- External Assessor University of East London Teaching Fellowship Scheme; ADMHEA Project funding applications & ADMHEA Teaching Fellowship Scheme (2007-2010); 2004-7; Reviewer of HEA Annual Conference session proposals; Peer Reviewer for applications HEA Senior Fellowship Scheme & HEA NTF Individual applications; Peer reviewer conference papers ConnectED, Australia (2007);ELIA Teacher’s Academy Annual International Conference; Assessor for HE Academy transferability bids for FDTL 5 projects (2006).
For further information on Kirsten’s NTF work see: http://search2.openobjects.com/kbroker/hea/heaportal/subjectcentres/search.lsim?ha=3008&qt=kirsten+hardie&sr=0&sb=0&nh=10&cs=iso-8859-1&sc=heaportal-portal&mt=0&ksubmit.x=42&ksubmit.y=8