Angela Smallwood
MA, MPhil, DPhil,ILTM
Angela is an Associate Professor in the School of Education, Director of the Centre for International ePortfolio Development and a Co-Director of the CETL for Integrative Learning.
A National Teaching Fellow, she has been leading cross-institutional projects in learning and teaching for over ten years, first on personal development planning and recently on ePortfolios for transition.
Currently she is directing three JISC projects contributing to an international IT infrastructure to support ePortfolios for lifelong learning. For more information please see: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/eportfolio/ She also leads the ePortfolio strand of the Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire Lifelong Learning Network, Leap Ahead, which focuses on vocational and work-based learners.
Prior to her move to Education in 2005, Angela was a member of the School of English Studies, teaching, researching and publishing on eighteenth-century literature, theatre studies and feminist criticism. She now speaks and writes on institutional and regional implementations of ePortfolio technologies in support of national education policy initiatives and is a member of Becta’s Expert Advisory Group on ePortfolio. Her current work for the CETL involves leading a study of different ePortfolio solutions in different learning contexts and exploring the potential of ePortfolios to support personalised, multi-locational learning and the reflective synthesis of diverse, lifewide, learning experiences.
Contact Angela at: Angela.Smallwood@nottingham.ac.uk