Dr Sean Morrissey
Senior Teaching Fellow
Organisational And Staff Development Unit
Personal statement
Personal statement
I am the Academic Development lead for learning and teaching in the Organisational and Staff Development Unit (OSDU) at Strathclyde. Within this role, I lead our Strathclyde Teaching Excellence Programme (STEP), Micro-CPD and pathways to professional recognition through Advance HE Fellowships. I am also the Programme Director of our PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. My research interests include staff peer-support networks, inclusive approaches to curriculum development, leadership in learning and teaching, and compassionate pedagogies. In addition to my own scholarship, I lead a number of collaboratives projects and staff development initiatives with colleagues in China and the Middle East.
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Prize And Awards
- Strathclyde Medal
- Recipient
- 11/2023
- UK & Ireland Green Gown Award 2022
- Recipient
- 8/11/2022
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Publications
- Micro-CPD in higher education : enhancing engagement and well-being through bite-sized professional development
- Morrissey Sean, Willison Debra, Hasan Ashkanani Nasreen
- Innovations in Education and Teaching International (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2026.2620542
- Developing capacity to engage in SoTL through a two-year institutional collaborative writing programme
- Healey Ruth, Healey Mick, Morrissey Sean
- EuroSoTL Conference 2025 (2025)
- What designing accessible academic development provision taught me about compassionate education
- Morrissey Sean
- Transformative Practice in Higher Education Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning (2025) (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003503149
- Outcomes from the BOLD Upskilling Workshops
- Morrissey Sean
- BOLD Curriculum Design Project Celebration and Dissemination Event (2024)
- BOLD & JNQF Curriculum Design Toolkit
- Morrissey Sean, Smart Fiona
- (2024)
- Making the most of module evaluation
- Morrissey Sean
- (2024)
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Professional Activities
- Celebrating excellence in learning and teaching at Strathclyde (CELTS): Annual Learning and Teaching Day 2025
- Organiser
- 19/6/2025
- Micro-CPD: Evaluation of effectiveness and impact
- Speaker
- 28/11/2024
- Aligning Teaching and Learning to the Jordanian National Qualification Framework, hosted by the British Council and AQACHEI
- Speaker
- 20/11/2024
- Generative AI and Assessment in Higher Education Curricula
- Consultant
- 30/5/2024
- BOLD Curriculum Design Project launch
- Speaker
- 28/5/2024
- Mathematics & Statistics Teaching Away Day
- Invited speaker
- 22/5/2024
Projects
- Education for Sustainable Development
- Morrissey, Sean (Principal Investigator) Morse, Tracy (Co-investigator) Willison, Debra (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2027
- Micro-CPD: Evaluation of effectiveness and impact on best practice and the student experience
- Willison, Debra (Principal Investigator) Morrissey, Sean (Principal Investigator)
- SEDA Research and Evaluation Small Grants 2024 (£1000)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2025
- Micro-CPD: Evaluation of effectiveness and impact on best practice and the student experience
- Willison, Debra (Principal Investigator) Morrissey, Sean (Co-investigator)
- 20-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- BOLD up-skilling Workshops in Jordan
- Morrissey, Sean (Principal Investigator)
- 19-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Collaborative Writing Groups
- Morrissey, Sean (Principal Investigator) Hasty, William (Principal Investigator) McCool, Susan (Principal Investigator) Strachan, Scott (Principal Investigator) Moore, Iain (Principal Investigator) Williams, Manuela (Principal Investigator) Faulkner, Suzanne (Principal Investigator) McCrorie, Kathryn (Principal Investigator) Cochrane, Neil (Principal Investigator) Carlysle-Davies, Felicity (Principal Investigator)
- Scholarship of Teaching Collaborative Writing Groups (2023-26) is a facilitated staff development programme that supports staff to take their next steps in scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and undertake collaborative scholarship projects.
Collaborative writing groups will be organised around a theme. Each group will have a group leader and will work together for an extended period to produce scholarship outputs. - 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2026
- Decolonising the Curriculum in the Faculty of Science
- Carlysle-Davies, Felicity (Principal Investigator) Willison, Debra (Co-investigator) Morrissey, Sean (Co-investigator) Merrett, Lorna (Researcher)
- A project to explore the current level of decolonising the curriculum within the Faculty of Science and identification of resources to support the development of this process. Supported by funding for a student intern (internally allocated funding from the QAA resilient learning communities theme).
- 29-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023
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Contact
Dr
Sean
Morrissey
Senior Teaching Fellow
Organisational And Staff Development Unit
Email: sean.morrissey@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4046