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| Thesis | Family, faith and fortification: Yorkshire 1066–1250 (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Philip Dixon |
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Sarah Speight FRSA is an academic and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Nottingham. Since 2020, she has been Pro Vice Chancellor for Education and Student Experience and was previously head of the School of Education.
Speight studied at the University of Manchester and went on to complete a PhD at the University of Nottingham. Her research spans the fields of higher education, archaeology and history.
Education
Speight studied at the University of Manchester where she completed a Bachelor of Arts in history.[1] She went on to study at the University of Nottingham, completing a Master of Arts in 1989[2] and a PhD at the same institution in 1993, titled Family, faith and fortification: Yorkshire 1066–1250, the latter under the supervision of Philip Dixon.[3]
Career
Speight works at the University of Nottingham and has taught for the Schools of Continuing Education, Education, and History. She was also head of the university's School of Education for five years. In 2006, she recieved the university's Lord Dearing Award,[1] which recognises "outstanding achievements ... in enhancing the student learning experience".[4] In 2013, Speight was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship.[5]
Speight was Honorary Treasurer of the Castle Studies Group between 1998 and 2001.[6] Between 2001 and 2006, Speight was the Archaeology Editor for the Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire.[7][8][9] Her specialism in castles led to her appearing in episodes of Time Team about Beaudesert Castle (2002) and Codnor Castle (2008).[10]
Selected publications
Speight has published articles in venues such as Journal of Educational Administration and History, Château Gaillard: Etudes de castellologie médiévale, History Compass, and the Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire.
Castle studies and archaeology
- Speight, Sarah (1994). "Early medieval castles in Nottinghamshire, Early Medieval Castle Sites in Nottinghamshire". Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire. 98: 58–70.
- Speight, Sarah (2000). "Castle warfare in the Gesta Stephani". Château Gaillard. Etudes de castellologie médiévale. 19: 269–274.
- Speight, Sarah (2002). "Digging for history: Archaeological fieldwork and the adult student 1943–1975". Studies in the Education of Adults. 34 (1): 68–85. doi:10.1080/02660830.2002.11661462. ISSN 0266-0830.
- Speight, Sarah (2004). "British Castle Studies in the Late 20th and 21st Centuries". History Compass. 2 (1). doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2004.00086.x. ISSN 1478-0542.
- Speight, Sarah (2008). "Castles as Past Culture: Living with Castles in the Post-Medieval World". Château Gaillard. Etudes de castellologie médiévale. 23: 247–256.
- Speight, Sarah (2008). "Castles as Past Culture 2: Adaptation and Identity in the Post-Life of Castles". The Castle Studies Group Journal. 22: 268–275.
Education
- Speight, Sarah; Lackovic, Natasa; Cooker, Lucy (2012). "Stakeholder attitudes towards employability in a Sino-British university". Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability. doi:10.3316/informit.211309285074709.
- Speight, Sarah; Lackovic, Natasa; Cooker, Lucy (2013). "The Contested Curriculum: Academic learning and employability in higher education". Tertiary Education and Management. 19 (2): 112–126. doi:10.1080/13583883.2012.756058. ISSN 1358-3883.
- Sivapalan, Subarna; Clifford, Michael J.; Speight, Sarah (2016). "Engineering education for sustainable development: using online learning to support the new paradigms". Australasian Journal of Engineering Education. 21 (2): 61–73. doi:10.1080/22054952.2017.1307592. ISSN 2205-4952.
- Speight, Sarah (2018), Milana, Marcella; Webb, Sue; Holford, John; Waller, Richard (eds.), "The Mainstreaming of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)", The Palgrave International Handbook on Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 939–956, doi:10.1057/978-1-137-55783-4_48, ISBN 978-1-137-55782-7, retrieved 2021-08-02
References
- ^ a b "Professor Sarah Speight". University of Nottingham. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Speight, Sarah (1989). Warenne castles: Their Place in the Social and Architectural Development of Medieval Fortifications (MA). University of Nottingham.
- ^ Family, faith and fortification: Yorkshire 1066-1250, University of Nottingham eprints, retrieved 2 August 2021
- ^ "Welcome to the Lord Dearing Awards Site". University of Nottingham. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Professor Sarah Speight". Advance HE. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Minutes of the CSG AGM held at Namur, Belgium on the 10th April 2001" (PDF), Castle Studies Group Newsletter, no. 15, 2002
- ^ "School of Education: Sarah Speight". University of Nottingham. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Sarah Speight". Archaeology Data Service. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "News for Summer 2002". Thoroton Society of Nottingham. 2002. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Sarah Speight". IMDB. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
