Ali Cooper is overall programme director for the Certificate in Academic Practice and module convenor for the Curriculum Design and Development module. She also teaches on the Developing Higher Education Practice modules and the programmes for graduate teaching assistants. She supports teaching and curriculum development with individuals and departments, in particular but not exclusively within the Faculty of Arts and Social Science. Ali also works with faculty staff in Lancaster’s international partner organisations, in GD Goenka in India and Sunway University College in Malaysia. She is particularly interested in course design, assessment, and peer review.

Before coming to Lancaster in 1999, Ali led undergraduate, postgraduate and faculty programmes at Liverpool John Moores, having previously taught English and Drama in several secondary schools. Her current research interests are in exploring the teaching experiences and development of new and international faculty.

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Susan is Director of the Supporting Learning Programme and contributes to the CAP and CPD provision and assists in embedding e-learning in CELT's own programmes. Although Computing is her first degree, Susan worked for a number of years in the Department of Management Learning, teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and gained an MA in Management Education. She was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2001 for innovative work and the focus of her Fellowship was around supporting staff in their embedding of networked learning into teaching and learning.

Susan got the chance to bring together her two areas of interest in computing and education when she took up the post of Learning Technology Development Officer in Information Systems Services. Later this area of activity was moved to CELT - emphasising the bridging nature of the activity between what technology can offer and how to effectively embed it within a teaching and learning context. Susan increasingly spent time with departments and individuals developing effective ways to embed e- learning before joining the Professional Programmes team.

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Tony's main responsibilities are to run CAP 1 and the Continuing Professional Development programme, which runs alongside the ATP and CAP programmes. He is currently developing ways of implementing a professional development framework for the university over the coming years. Tony teaches on undergraduate courses in ICR and the Management School. His current research is centred around issues of internationalisation in UK Higher Education.

In 2001 Tony moved to the Student Learning Development Centre, working mainly with international students in the Management School, and then in January 2005 he took up the post of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Adviser. His background is in Applied Linguistics, particularly in the area of English Language teacher development. For a number of years Tony managed language projects in different countries, including Spain, Nicaragua, China and Hungary. He came back to Lancaster in 1996 to do his PhD and to work in the Institute for English Language Education. There, he worked with teachers from many parts of the world and was also lucky to be able to work with them in their own countries, among them, Cambodia, Kosova, Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. He also designed and taught courses on the MA in Linguistics in LAEL.

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