Pauline Ridley

 I originally studied design at St Martins School of Art, gained an MA in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and taught art history for many years at various institutions including the Open University. 

I then developed and led the new BA (Hons) Visual Culture degree at the University of Brighton for some years before moving into academic development.  I helped to establish the Subject Centre in Art Design & Communication here at Brighton, before joining the Centre for Learning & Teaching (now L&T Hub) in 2001.

Since then I have led a variety of university-wide projects, developing policy and resources to support inclusive practice, personal tutoring and education for sustainable development. I have led the PgCert in Academic Practice (PGCAP) and the Course Leaders programme and from 2005-10 I was involved in all three of the University's HEFCE Centres of Excellence in Teaching & Learning - the CETL in Design, Inqbate Creativity Centre, and LearnHigher - a collaboration between 16 universities in which I led the Visual Practices area.

In the latter role I published a series of booklets "Drawing to Learn" which are still available at the Visual Learning website https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/visuallearning/ I continue to maintain the site which contains many other resources on visual approaches to teaching, assessment and research methods.  

Now semi-retired, I still contribute to the PGCAP for new lecturers, and am responsible for developing and maintaining online resources to support personal academic tutoring (at https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/personalacademictutoring/Personal Academic Tutoring),   and have been L&T Hub Partner for the Schools of Education, Art and Design, and Humanities & Social Sciences.