Sarah Speight Explained

Sarah Speight
Awards:National Teaching Fellowship
Thesis Title:Family, faith and fortification: Yorkshire 1066–1250
Thesis Year:1993
Thesis Url:http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11870/
Doctoral Advisor:Philip Dixon

Sarah Speight is an academic and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Nottingham. Since 2020, she has been Pro Vice Chancellor for Education and Student Experience and was previously head of the School of Education.

Speight studied at the University of Manchester and went on to complete a PhD at the University of Nottingham. Her research spans the fields of higher education, archaeology and history.

Education

Speight studied at the University of Manchester where she completed a Bachelor of Arts in history.[1] She went on to study at the University of Nottingham, completing a Master of Arts in 1989[2] and a PhD at the same institution in 1993, titled Family, faith and fortification: Yorkshire 1066–1250, the latter under the supervision of Philip Dixon.

Career

Speight works at the University of Nottingham and has taught for the Schools of Continuing Education, Education, and History. She was also head of the university's School of Education for five years.

After completing her PhD, Speight took up a part-time teaching role at the University of Nottingham in the Department of Adult Education.[3] In 2006, she received the university's Lord Dearing Award, which recognises "outstanding achievements ... in enhancing the student learning experience".[4] In 2013, Speight was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship.[5]

Speight was Honorary Treasurer of the Castle Studies Group between 1998 and 2001. Between 2001 and 2006, Speight was the Archaeology Editor for the Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire.[6] [7] [8] Her specialism in castles led to her appearing in episodes of Time Team about Beaudesert Castle (2002) and Codnor Castle (2008).[9] Speight was part of a movement examining the impact of castles on settlements and the landscape; Speight contributed a study of castle chapels to this area.[10]

Selected publications

Speight has published articles in venues such as Journal of Educational Administration and History, Château Gaillard: Études de castellologie médiévale, History Compass, and the Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire.

Castle studies and archaeology

Education

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Sarah Speight . University of Nottingham . 2 August 2021 . 24 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210924055007/https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/structure/university-executive-board/provicechancelloreducationstudentexperience.aspx . live .
  2. MA . Speight . Sarah . 1989 . Warenne castles: Their Place in the Social and Architectural Development of Medieval Fortifications . University of Nottingham.
  3. Web site: Nottingham . Teaching at . 2013-07-11 . Working my way from the outside in: reflections of a NTFS winner . 2023-05-31 . Talking of teaching . en-US . 31 May 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230531172240/https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/talkingofteaching/2013/ntfs/ . live .
  4. Web site: Welcome to the Lord Dearing Awards Site . University of Nottingham . 2 August 2021 . 2 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210802180019/https://pd-systems.nottingham.ac.uk/lord-dearing/ . live .
  5. Web site: Professor Sarah Speight . Advance HE . 2 August 2021 . 2 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210802180013/https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/ntfs/professor-sarah-speight . live .
  6. Web site: School of Education: Sarah Speight . University of Nottingham . 2 August 2021 . 2 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210802180014/https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/people/sarah.speight . live .
  7. Web site: Sarah Speight . . 2 August 2021 . 28 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210628155100/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/personDetails.xhtml?personId=8778 . live .
  8. Web site: News for Summer 2002 . Thoroton Society of Nottingham . 2002 . 2 August 2021 . 9 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220809195044/http://www.thorotonsociety.org.uk/news/thornews_summer2002.htm . live .
  9. Web site: Sarah Speight . IMDB . 2 August 2021 . 2 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210802191815/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3016937/ . live .
  10. Higham . Robert . Castle Studies in Transition: A Forty Year Reflection . Archaeological Journal . 2010 . 167 . 7 . 10.1080/00665983.2010.11020791. 161445714 .

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