Rekindling the joy of learning

Maria O’Hara is a Lecturer in Education (Assessment Advisor) in King’s Academy at King’s College London. She works closely with the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care to facilitate their strategic goals on assessment and feedback. This has included working with the faculty to develop their position on generative AI in assessment and providing training for staff. Before joining King’s Academy in June 2023, she had previously worked as a teaching librarian at King’s College London.

Rebecca Lindner is Deputy Director of King’s Academy, the academic development centre at King’s College London, where she focuses on educational leadership, professional development for education-focused academics, and education scholarship. She has taught across a range of Humanities disciplines and held academic and leadership roles at University College London, the University of Oregon, and Amsterdam University College. Rebecca’s work explores widening participation, staff and student wellbeing, leadership resilience, and curriculum innovation, and she has led funded projects supported by Research England, the Office for Students, the Calderwood Foundation, and Circle U. European University Alliance.

Rachel Morley, FHEA, is Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet Cinema and Culture and Academic Director of Education and Student Experience at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Her education-related research interests focus on feedback, assessment, student voice, and inclusive pedagogy. With a team of undergraduate students, she co-led a project on fostering student-staff partnerships in assessment design, funded by UCL ChangeMakers. In her role as Academic Director of Education in a research-intensive university, Rachel is committed to ensuring that achievements in education are valued equally with those in research.

Haf Carney-Rees is an Organisational Development Programme Manager specialising in employee experience and engagement at King’s College London. Previous to this role, she developed King’s Inclusive Education Network which continues to serve as a place for the staff community to learn and to share knowledge and practice in Inclusive Education for all at King’s.

Martin Compton has over 30 years of experience as an educator, teaching across secondary, further, and higher education sectors in the UK and abroad. Following roles at the University of Greenwich and University College London (UCL), he joined King's College London in 2023. Martin focuses primarily on exploring the educational implications of artificial intelligence. As the University Lead for AI in Education, he supports colleagues and students in critically reviewing and innovating teaching, assessment, and feedback, whilst championing a 'freedom to learn' philosophy.