College of Arts, Humanities and Education staff

Programme Leader BA (Hons) Popular Music with Music Technology

PGCE Provider Led School-Based PGCE Primary Programme Leader

Jo Baines is the Programme Leader for the Primary Provider Led School-Based  Programme at the University of Derby. Jo is passionate about the teaching of reading and writing.

David Barker
Senior Lecturer in Publishing

David Barker is a Senior Lecturer in Publishing and Programme Leader for the MA Publishing at the University of Derby. He is interested in all aspects of Publishing as an academic discipline.

Programme Leader Media Production & Principal Lecturer TV Production

Lecturer in International Education

Alan Bazeley is a lecturer in International Education at the University of Derby, focusing on the online modules for the iPGCE course.

Picture of Sharon Bell
Head of Discipline: Education, Childhood and Inclusion

Sharon Bell, Head of Discipline for Education, Childhood and Inclusion at the University of Derby. 

Lecturer in American Studies, Academic Writing Support Tutor for Humanities and the Chair of the Disability Coordinators' Group

Amanda Blake Davis reading a book.
Lecturer in English Literature

Amanda Blake Davis is a Lecturer in English Literature. Amanda specialises in eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature and culture with an emphasis on Romantic poetry, particularly Percy Bysshe Shelley. She has wider research interests in the environmental humanities, intermediality and intertextuality, and classical reception.

Senior Lecturer

Hannah is a researcher at the International Centre for Guidance Studies at the University of Derby.

Staff member Andy Bloor
Programme Lead: iPGCE and iQTS

Andy Bloor is a Senior Lecturer in International Education and Programme Lead for the iPGCE. His fields of interest are around International and Comparative Education and Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties in children, particularly those with Attachment Disorder and neuro-atypical children.