Dr John Canning
Faculties, departments and locations
- Non-faculty academics
- Kingston Hill
Senior Lecturer in Learning and Teaching
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
I joined Learning and Teaching Enhancement Centre (LTEC) in October 2023. My main role is working with the AdvanceHE-accredited Kingston Academic Practice Standards (KAPS) framework where I lead the programme for experienced practitioners. I also contribute to teaching on our AdvanceHE-accredited Introduction to Learning and Teaching (ILT) and Supporting and Assisting Learning and Teaching (SALT) programmes for early career academics.
Qualifications
- PhD Geography, University of Bristol, 2002
- MSc Society and Space, University of Bristol, 1998
- BA (Hons) Geography, University of Aberystwyth, 1997
- Senior Fellow AdvanceHE, 2014
- Fellow, Staff and Educational Development Association, 2010
Domains
I am an experienced academic developer and educational researcher having started my career at the UK Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, based at the University of Southampton (2003-2013). In 2013 I went into institution-based academic development at the University of Brighton where I worked on a range of academic and curriculum development activities and led an HEA/ AdvanceHE accredited PGCert in Academic Practice.
My work at the Kingston involves supporting individuals and teams across the university, principally in supporting those applying for Fellowships via our AdvanceHE- accredited KAPS schemes. I am also experienced in supporting course and module leaders and advising colleagues on course and module design. Over the years I have also supported colleagues in embedding employability and sustainability in the curriculum.
I am also an experienced doctoral examiner and recently lead-supervised Jennie Jones' thesis 'Part-time PhD students' learning journeys in UK universities in changing times: Influences of academic, professional and personal relationships and life events (2023)', University of Brighton.
My early research stemming from my PhD thesis concerned issues of nationalism and national identity in Quebec. I then switched to undertaking research into teaching and learning in higher education where my interests have focused on professional identities, quality regimes and student voice. My latest work (with Emma-Louise Jay 2024) calls on researchers to take an heightened interest in social acceleration as a key concern for the study of education.
Specialisms
- Student voice in higher education
- Quality regimes
- Social acceleration
With Laura Minogue (St Marys' University), I am co-chair of the South East Academic Development Network, an informal group of academic developers working in London and South East England.
Publications
Phenomenologies of ‘social acceleration’ : some consequences and opportunities for education studies in an unknown future
Canning, John and Jay, Emma-Louise, 2024, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (45), 1, pp 131-145
Learning-outcomes-based assessments at universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands : perceptions of business lecturers
Rauf, Abdul, Rostás, Kriszta and Canning, John, 2023, Quality in Higher Education (29), 2, pp 192-207
The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) : the thorn in the flesh of educational research
Canning, John and Masika, Rachel, 2022, Studies in Higher Education (47), 6, pp 1084-1096
The UK Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) as an illustration of Baudrillard’s hyperreality
Canning, John, 2019, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (40), 3, pp 319-330
Conceptualising student voice in UK higher education : four theoretical lenses
Canning, John, 2017, Teaching in Higher Education (22), 5, pp 519-531
Half a million unsatisfied graduates? Increasing scrutiny of the National Student Survey's 'overall' question
Canning, John, 2015, Educational Developments (16), 3, pp 18-19
What’s worse than a Ref for teaching? An Ofsted for universities
Canning, John, 2015, The Guardian
Teaching in twenty-first-century higher education : reading Chekhov's 'A boring story' to stimulate reflective practice
Canning, John, 2015, Reflective Practice (16), 4, pp 497-507
A new measurement and ranking system for the UK National Student Survey
Canning, John, 2015, Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education (19), 2, pp 56-65
Developer, financier, designer : building hybrid projects outside the university
Canning, John, 2014, Hybrid Pedagogy
Disciplinary disjunctures in the transition from secondary school to higher education study of modern foreign languages : a case study from the UK
Gallagher-Brett, Angela and Canning, John, 2011, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education (10), 2, pp 171-188
Building a bridge to pedagogic research : teaching social science research methods to humanities practitioners
Canning, John and Gallagher‐Brett, Angela, 2010, Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education (2), 2, pp 4-9
The invisible developers? Academic coordinators in the UK Subject Centre Network
Canning, John, 2010, Teaching in Higher Education (15), 4, pp 461-466
Influences on the teaching of Arabic and Islamic studies in UK higher education : connections and disconnections
Bernasek, Lisa and Canning, John, 2009, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education (8), 3, pp 259-275
A skill or a discipline? An examination of employability and the study of modern foreign languages
Canning, John, 2009, Journal of Employability in the Humanities (3)
Pedagogy as a discipline : emergence, sustainability and professionalisation
Canning, John, 2007, Teaching in Higher Education (12), 3, pp 393-403
Placing Quebec nationalisms : constructing English identities in Quebec's Eastern Townships
Canning, John, 2005, British Journal of Canadian Studies (18), 1, pp 120-136
Disciplinarity : a barrier to quality assurance? The UK experience of area studies
Canning, John, 2005, Quality in Higher Education (11), 1, pp 37-46
Assessment in higher education : the anatomy of a wicked problem
Canning, John and Eve, Juliet (2020). In: Masika, Rachel, (ed.), Research matters : the pedagogic research conference and articles 2019. Brighton, U.K.: University of Brighton, pp 51-60
Global consensus is a dream, but Twitter is real : simulating a sustainable development goals summit through interdisciplinary classroom politics and negotiation by social media
Kemp, Simon, Kendal, Julia, Warren, Adam, Wright, Laurence, Canning, John, Grace, Marcus and Saunders, Clare (2014). In: Leal Filho, Walter, (eds.), Brandli, Luciana, (eds.), Kuznetsova, Olga, (eds.) and do Paço, Arminda Maria Finisterra, (eds.), Integrative approaches to sustainable development at university level : making the links. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp 551-566
Translating words into action and actions into words : sustainability in languages, linguistics and area studies curricula
Canning, John (2010). In: Jones, Paula, (eds.), Selby, David, (eds.) and Sterling, Stephen, (eds.), Sustainability education : perspectives and practice Across Higher Education. London, U.K.: Earthscan, pp 295-312
Building the Quebec nation : a geographical approach
Canning, John (2005). In: Morgan, Ceri, (eds.) and Rolfe, Christopher, (eds.), Focus on Quebec 3 : Essays on Quebecois culture and society. Edinburgh, U.K.: British Association for Canadian Studies, pp 20-29
Nationalism(s) as local practice(s) : Re-examining Quebec nationalisms in the Eastern Townships
Canning, John (2004). In: Bryan, Christopher, (eds.) and Ramsey, Doug, (eds.), The structure and dynamics of rural territories : geographical perspectives. Manitoba, U.S.: Rural Development Institute, Brandon University, pp 43-61
Defining and supporting the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) : a sector-wide study : SoTL case studies
Masika, Rachel, Gina, Wisker and Canning, John (2016). York, U.K.: (Higher Education Academy)
Worked examples for Gorard (GS) and Allen and Vignoles (D) measures of segregation in schools
Canning, John (2015). Brighton, U.K.: (University of Brighton)
Prospects and pitfalls of extending the UK National Student Survey to postgraduate students : an international review
Canning, John (2014). Brighton, U.K.: (Centre for Learning and Teaching, University of Brighton)
From Yankees to Québécois : nation-building and national identity in Quebec’s Eastern Townships
Canning, John (2002), PhD thesis, University of Bristol