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Prof Mick Healey is a HE Consultant and Researcher and Emeritus Professor at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. He obtained his bachelor and doctorate degrees from the University of Sheffield and lectured at Coventry University from 1974 to 1994 before moving to Gloucestershire. Until mid-2010 he was Director of the Centre for Active Learning (CeAL), a HEFCE-funded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Director of the Geography Discipline Network (GDN) and Senior Advisor for Geography to The Higher Education Academy's Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. He has been co-director of a HE Academy project on Linking teaching and research through the disciplines and Academics' Experiences and Conceptions of 'Research' and 'Teaching'; co-director the University of Gloucestershire's contribution to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Leadership Programme on Undergraduate Research; and Director (with Peter Childs) of a National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) Project entitled Leading, promoting and supporting undergraduate research in the new university sector.

In 2000 he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in the first round. He has twice been awarded the Journal of Geography in Higher Education Biennial Award for Promoting Excellence in Teaching and Learning (2003 and 2007). In 2004 the Council of the Royal Geographical Society conferred on him the Taylor and Francis Award for 'contributions to the promotion of learning and teaching in higher education'. In 2007 he was one of the first 14 people to be awarded a Senior Fellowship of Higher Education Academy.

Mick is an experienced presenter. Since 1995 he has given over 300 educational workshops, seminars, keynotes and conference presentations in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. For example, in 2008 he was the keynote speaker at the launches of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council's project 'Achieving Teaching Research Connections' in Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne. He has written and edited over 150 papers, chapters, books and guides on various aspects of teaching and learning in higher education.

Website: http://www.mickhealey.co.uk