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Health & Social Care
Health & Social Care is all about compassion, support and understanding both individual needs and broader sociocultural context. Here at Bishop Grosseteste University, we practice what we teach. Our undergraduate course has been developed in consultation with Health and Social Care services in Lincoln, thus ensuring relevance to provision within the community and meeting employers’ expectations. -
Education with TESOL
Are you an aspiring or experienced teacher or education manager who wants to find out more about supporting EAL learners in primary or secondary settings in the UK? Do you want to extend your skills for English language teaching in FE? Are you a TEFL teacher working in the UK, overseas, or online and want to develop your practice? Perhaps you intend to work in international school settings and need to know how to support students in multilingual and multicultural classrooms? Maybe you want to further your knowledge of education policy for social inclusion and diversity and how to implement it in your school. If the answer is yes to any of the above, the MA in Education with TESOL is the ideal course for you. For more information, contact enquiries@bishopg.ac.uk Don’t forget that BGU Alumni receive a 20% discount on all Master's course fees for 2025/26. -
Health & Social Care Leadership
This course aims to enable an in-depth knowledge and understanding of leadership practice in Health and Social Care, informed by current scholarly research and including a critical awareness of current issues and developments at the forefront of this field. -
Psychology and Counselling
Through studying a Psychology degree at BGU you’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the scientific nature of the subject and of its wider cultural and social impact. This course will develop your understanding of psychology and its theories of the mind, emotions and behaviour and become familiar with how these theories are applied in our lives, communities and societies. -
Psychology and Counselling with Foundation Year
Through studying a Psychology degree at BGU you’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the scientific nature of the subject and of its wider cultural and social impact. This course will develop your understanding of psychology and its theories of the mind, emotions and behaviour and become familiar with how these theories are applied in our lives, communities and societies. -
Professor Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson is Executive Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange at BGU, and Professor of Local, Regional and Landscape History. Andrew joined the staff of Bishop Grosseteste University in 2007, following ten years at the University of Exeter. The main focus of Andrew’s research includes twentieth-century local, regional, and landscape change in rural and urban contexts, and especially in Lincolnshire and Devon. Professor Jackson also engages in public history and heritage projects, supervises doctoral students, and contributes to undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes in History. -
Dr Clare Lawrence
Clare is Associate Professor of Participatory Autism Research, as well as the English subject lead on the secondary PGCE course. She is a graduate of York, Oxford, Northumbria, Birmingham, and Sheffield Hallam universities. Her PhD is in parental involvement in the education of children with autism. Clare is the East Midlands Convenor for the Participatory Autism Research Collective (PARC) as well as being Lincolnshire County Council Autism Champion for BGU. -
Prof. Claudia Capancioni
Prof. CLAUDIA CAPANCIONI, Dott. (Urbino, Italy), MA & Ph.D (Hull, UK), SFHEA Professor in English Literature and Programme Leader for English ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7127-6202 Claudia is a Professor of English Literature and Programme Leader for English, including the MA English Literature and MA Children’s Literature and Literacies. She is a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). At BGU, she leads the Research & Knowledge Exchange Unit, ‘Voicing the Past: ‘Culture, Legacy, and Narrative’. She is also the academic lead for the Sandford Award, and a member of the Research Ethics and Quality Assurance Committees. She is the Membership Secretary of the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS). The contribution of women to literatures in English is her scholarly pursuit, with a focus on the long nineteenth century, the twentieth and twenty-first century. She specialises in Victorian and contemporary women writers, life and travel writing, adaptation, gender and translation studies. She has a keen interest in multigenerational literary legacy, intellectual circles, intertextuality, and transnational studies. She has also published on detective fiction, the Gothic, Anglo-Italian literary and cultural connections, and Joyce Salvadori Lussu. Her publications include translations into English of Italian literary texts. She teaches nineteenth-century and contemporary literature, literary theory, and research skills at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She previously taught Victorian literature and Modernism at the University of Hull, where she was awarded her Ph.D. -
Dr Maria Efstratopoulou
Dr. Maria is a Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences. She teaches Research Methodologies in the EdD Program and supervises Doctoral Thesis. She joined BGU in September 2015 and teaches on the Special Education and Inclusion program. She holds a Doctoral Degree in Biomedical Sciences from the Faculty of Kinisiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and also an European Master in Psychomotor Therapy for Children (KULeuven, Belgium) and a Master in Human Performance and Health for Special Populations (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece). Maria’s research interests are in Motor Behavior and Assessment and Diagnostical Procedures for children with emotional, behavioral and developmental disorders. She has many years of experience working with children in both educational and clinical settings and she is experienced also in the education of teachers and Special Education professionals. She is also an Academic Associate of the Department of Education and Inclusion of Metropolitan College in Thessaloniki, in co-operation with East London University, supervising Master Dissertations in Education. Before joining BGU, Dr. Efstratopoulou was a researcher at the Research Unit for Psychomotor Therapy for children at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, working with children with autism, ADHD, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorders and children with other motor, emotional, behavioural and developmental difficulties. She has written two books and published many research articles and she is a regular peer reviewer for several journals. -
Dr Richard Newton
Senior Lecturer in Education Studies Dr Richard Newton works on the Education Studies programme at Bishop Grosseteste University. He currently teaches on modules across Years 1-3 as well as supervising undergraduate dissertation students. He leads two first year modules – ‘People, Schools and Society’ and ‘Wellbeing and Resilience’. Prior to joining BGU in 2018, Richard taught on undergraduate and postgraduate Initial Teacher Training courses at Oxford Brookes University. Whilst at Oxford Brookes he completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education, granting fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. Before working in academia Richard completed a PhD in psychology and an MA in educational research, following a career as a primary school teacher in South Yorkshire. Richard’s interests stem from cultural psychology and socio-cultural theory, particularly the context of learning and the situated nature of cognition. He has a research interest in socially constructed notions of identity and how these shift in response to external social and cultural conditions. Richard is also interested in 'transitions' and how these alter notions of self in different communities.
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