Praxis Festival of Scholarship 2023

Dates: Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 10:00 to 16:30

We are delighted to announce Professor Tansy Jessop as our keynote speaker at this year's Festival of Scholarship.

Tansy is Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education at the University of Bristol. She is primarily responsible for providing academic leadership for enhancing and developing undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, delivering the University's Education and Student Experience Strategy, and overseeing teaching and learning, assessment and feedback and the curriculum

Tansy Jessop was born in South Africa and educated at the universities of Cape Town and KwaZulu-Natal. She completed her PhD at the University of Southampton and worked as an education consultant for DFID and the British Council in Palestine and India. She was Professor of Research-Informed Teaching at Solent University and Head of Learning and Teaching at the University of Winchester. She leads the 'Transforming the Experience of Students through Assessment' (TESTA) research and change project, now used across the world. She has published on assessment and feedback, research-informed teaching, learning spaces and social justice in education, and was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2016 for her work on TESTA and her creative approach to teaching in higher education.