Jane Saffell
Deputy Principal Education and Director of the Insitute of Medical & Biomedical Education @City St George’s, University of London
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WORK HISTORY
Deputy Principal Education and Director of the Insitute of Medical & Biomedical Education @City St George’s, University of London
Deputy Principal, EducationDirector, Institute of Medical & Biomedical EducationProfessor of Cellular Neurobiology & Bioscience EducationMember of CouncilAs Deputy Principal Education I have overall responsibility for setting, implementing and evaluating the St George\'s Education Strategy, encompassing vision, direction, portfolio, teaching & learning and the student experience. As Director of the Institute of Medical & Biomedical Education I lead and enable staff engaged in teaching, research, scholarship and educational organisation across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes (in the UK and overseas), in the fields of medicine, science underpinning health and a wide range of health professions. Believing that university students learn best in inclusive academic communities where teaching and learning are meshed with research and scholarship, I have a pedagogic interest in curriculum frameworks that reveal the creativity of research, develop disciplinary “ways of thinking and practicing”, and give students insight into knowledge-creation, research socio-politics and culture.My academic background is in molecular and cellular neurobiology research in cell adhesion and motility, research-based bioscience educational innovation, and change leadership.
EDUCATION
King's College London
PhD, Molecular Neurobiology
Loreto Convent Valley Road, Nairobi, Kenya
High School
Imperial College London
MEd, Higher Education Learning & Teaching
Loreto Convent Msongari, Nairobi, Kenya
A-levels, Biology, Chemistry, Art
Imperial College London
First Class BSc (Hons), Biochemistry
SKILLS
ABOUT JANE SAFFELL
Higher education leader with responsibility at St George\'s for education strategy, learning and teaching, student outcomes and student experience, as Deputy Principal Education. Member of Council. Member of the TRAC Development Group, reporting to the OfS Financial Sustainability Strategy Group.Former Member of UK Research Council Grant Committee (BBSRC Molecules, Cells & Industrial Biotechnology) and the Royal Society of Biology Curriculum Committee. Potted history notes: following secondary education in Nairobi, Kenya, read Biochemistry at Imperial College (First Class BSc) before undertaking a molecular neurobiology PhD and postdoctoral research at Guy’s Hospital (King’s College London). First member of my family to go to university. In returned to Imperial as a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in the Department of Life Sciences, and moved to the Faculty of Medicine\'s Division of Brain Sciences (Department of Medicine) in 2011. Became Deputy Head in 2013 and Reader in 2015. In 2014 completed an MEd in University Learning & Teaching (Distinction). In the Department of Medicine chaired the Development & Opportunities Committee, led Bronze (2012) and Silver (2014) Athena SWAN awards and was a member of Management Board. In 2015 won a National Teaching Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy and was appointed Associate Dean for Science & Postgraduate Education for the Faculty of Medicine, moving to St George\'s University of London in October 2016 to take up the post of Deputy Principal Education and Director of the Institute of Medical and Biomedical Education.
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