SFHEA
Teaching Fellow
- About
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- Email Address
- toni.gibson@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Toni graduated from The Robert Gordon University in 2002 with a BSc in Software Engineering and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Learning in Teaching in 2011.
She joined the Centre of Learning and Learning and Teaching, which became the Department of Learning Teaching and Assessment, at Robert Gordon University in 2005 as a Learning Technologist. Then moved to the School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences in 2008 as an eLearning Advisor, latterly an Online Learning Developer, where she was also the Accessibility Lead and the Business Champion for the school with the rollout of Office 365.
She completed her Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority in 2018.
Toni joined the Institute of Applied Health Sciences in the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition in 2021 as a Teaching Fellow in Learning Design Technology.
I am passionate about patient involvement in research; User experience with technology and providing appropriate and authentic assessment and feedback.
Toni now co-coordinate two postgraduate work-based Learning courses as part of our MSc Programmes. My specialisms are Digital Marketing, Technology Enhanced Learning and Assessment and Feedback. I am part of the group informing on the upscaling of the university’s work-based learning for all students in line with our 2040 strategy.
pronunciation: [T oh n ee] [G IH b - s un] ;
pronouns: she/her/hers
Personality Type: ENFJ
Want to know more about Toni?
If you would like to know more about my journey and how I came to be here at the University then please read my most recent blog.
Qualifications
- SFHEA teaching and supporting learning in higher education.2018 - Advance HE
- PGCE Postgraduate Higher Education Learning and Teaching2011 - RGU
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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I am part of the following:
- IAHS Assessment Review Panel
- IAHS Postgraduate Education Group
- PGT Plagiarism Committee
- Pedagogical Inquiry Network
- Women's Development Network
I am a member of:
- the AdvanceHE Assessor panel
- Member of the Senatus Academicus for the School of Medicine, medical sciences & nutrition (until 30 Sept 2026)
- External Memberships
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I am a member of Severe Asthma Patient Advisory Group for European Lung Foundation and a Patient Advisor of the Scottish Panel for Asthma & Lung UK
Prizes and Awards
I was nominated for an excellence award for "most accessible lecturer" in the 2024 nominations
- Research
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Research Overview
My current research interests are
- Supporting, engaging and facilitating distance learning
- Work based learning
- Assessment and Feedback
- using feedback quality checklists and frameworks
Research Areas
Education
Research Specialisms
- Work-Based Learning
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Knowledge Exchange
I belong to the Severe Asthma Patient Advisory Group for European Lung Foundation; Patient Advisor of the Scottish Panel for Asthma UK and BLF
- Teaching
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Courses
Course Coordinator
Part of the Teaching Team
Part of the support team
Part of the support team
Teaching Responsibilities
I coordinate PU5548 work based learning and teach on both it and PU5923
