Ruth Healey
Summary
Ruth Healey is Professor of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and a University Innovation Fellow at the University of Chester, UK where she has been since 2009. In 2016, she joined Healey HE Consultants. She has actively researched into learning and teaching issues since 2004. Her pedagogic research interests include teaching for social transformations, debates, ethics, and students as partners. Ruth has written over 40 pedagogic publications and given over 50 workshops, presentations and keynotes in 10 different countries. She became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in 2014; in 2017 was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship (NTF); and in 2019 was awarded one of nine inaugural fellowships of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL). In 2018 she was a Group Leader at the International Students as Partners Institute at McMaster University. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education (2009-) and is one of the inaugural Editors of the International Journal for Students as Partners (2016-). From 2018-2021 Ruth was also Chair of the Geography and Education Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society. She is often invited to present and run workshops on aspects of teaching and learning.
Full biography
“Ruth has a trajectory in SoTL the likes of which I have not witnessed before. At a relatively young age she has secured funding to change the face of delivery in her own institution, written publications that are helping to enhance practice across the UK and internationally, mentored a diversity of staff to aspire to new ways of teaching, and constantly places her own students at the heart of their learning experience. If you are not aware of Ruth Healey yet, mark my words, you soon will be. ”
Ruth Healey is Professor of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education at the University of Chester, UK, and a HE Consultant and Researcher. She obtained her bachelor, masters and doctorate degrees in geography from the University of Sheffield and her masters degree in learning and teaching at the University of Chester. She has been a lecturer in human geography at the University of Chester since 2009 and was made a University Innovation Fellow in 2022. In 2016, she joined Healey HE Consultants.
She has written over 50 papers, chapters, books and guides on various aspects of teaching and learning in higher education. She has 1000 citations, two thirds since 2016. Ruth’s article about the ‘power of debate’ was short-listed for the Journal of Geography in Higher Education (JGHE) Award for Promoting Excellence in Teaching and Learning 2012-13. She was the first person at her university to be made a Senior Fellow of the HE Academy. In 2017 she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship (NTFS). Then in 2019 Ruth was awarded one of nine inaugural fellowships of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL). She has since gone on to work closely with the other Fellows from the 2019 and 2020 cohorts to chair an ISSOTL Fellows Committee.
Ruth is an experienced presenter and workshop facilitator. She has given nearly 80 educational workshops, seminars, keynotes and conference presentations in more than 10 different countries (Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and United States).
She is an inaugural Editor for the International Journal for Students as Partners having worked on the journal since 2016. Since 2009 she has been an editorial board member of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education. Between 2019 and 2021 Ruth was the Chair of the Geography and Education Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society. Under her leadership the group expanded its remit and was re-named from the Higher Education Research Group. Ruth has led or participated in eight learning and teaching focused collaborative writing groups with the International Network for Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education (INLT), the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), and the Geography and Education Research Group.
When Ruth is not working she can often be found walking with her dog, Sam, or dancing with the Cheshire Swing Cats, where she is one of the Directors.
Google Scholar Citations: 1200 (800 since 2019); h-index 17; 27 publications have each been cited over 10 times.
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6872-4900
