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Mrs Maria Townsend

Profile summary

  • Regional Academic Staff
  • Staff Tutor and Senior Lecturer in Engineering and Inno
  • Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
  • School of Engineering & Innovation
  • maria.townsend

Professional biography

I am a Staff tutor for the School of Engineering and Innovation within the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

I started my role as a Staff Tutor in 2019, after tutoring on environment, engineering and science modules as an Associate Lecturer between 2002 and 2019. During this time, I also had extensive experience of writing, and supporting others to write, online quizzes for OpenLearn Badged Open Courses (BOCs). Before a career break, I worked as a controls engineer in the building services industry. Although, I started my career in engineering I have subsequently moved into the environment, which is now my main area of interest.

Research interests

  • The role of drop-in tutorials to support assessment.
  • The experience of BAME students on level 1 environment qualification modules.

Teaching interests

I am module chair of U116 (B presentation) Environment: journeys through a changing world and on the module production team for the replacement module for T219 Environmental Management 1.

Publications

Case report: supporting students with assessment by replicating open-door tutorials in online distance education – the student experience (2024)
Townsend, Maria; Champion, Emma and Berndt, Gwendoline
Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning ((Early access))

Ecoanxiety and environmental education: stories, conversations, actions (2024)
Davies, Sarah-Jane; Aiken, Fiona; McPherson, Elaine; Patent, Volker; Townsend, Maria; Croft, Debra; Marshall, Harriet; Shelton, Joanna and Lister, Kate
In : The 13th eSTEeM Annual Conference 2024: Sharing Scholarship and Best Practice – Implementing What Works (10-11 Apr 2024, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)