Anna brings to UCC her fervent vocation for Educational Development, her strong commitment to Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, her international experience within diverse Higher Education settings, and her dedication to promoting intentional, learning-centered, and evidence-based teaching across the disciplines. She cultivates these values locally and internationally in her current roles as co-chair of POD Network’s Professional Development Committee and editor of its POD Perspectives series, member of the Educational Developers in Ireland (EDIN) Committee, vice-president of the All-Ireland Society for Higher Education (AISHE), co-lead of an International Collaborative Writing Group for the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), and Associate Editor of the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED)’s International Journal for Academic Development (IJAD).
Before joining UCC, Anna was Faculty Development Specialist in the Office for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at University of Rhode Island (USA), where she facilitated equitable learning efforts, Inclusive Excellence initiatives, and High Impact Teaching programs. Her story includes a BA in Modern Languages (Padova, Italy), MA in English (Nottingham, UK), and PhD combining Italian and Theatre & Performance (Brown University, USA – where she also served as for several years as Graduate Teaching Consultant at the Sheridan Center).
Anna’s international and transdisciplinary work critically promotes interculturality, equity and justice in higher education via co-creation, reflection, agency, and authentic partnerships. Her scholarship, teaching practice, and collaborations focus on critically inclusive pedagogies informed by applied theatre, performance activism, language education, and intercultural teaching and learning. Her publications appear in venues such as Research in Drama Education, the Scenario Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning and Research, the Journal of Excellence in College Teaching, the Journal of Faculty Development, Teaching and Learning Inquiry, New Directions in Teaching & Learning, and the International Journal for Academic Development.
Highlights about Anna's recent areas of interest include:
1) nurturing an evidence-based and intellectually-engaged teaching and learning community;
2) sustaining learning-centred teaching strategies that consider motivation, growth mindset, self-realization, empathy, embodiment, belonging, mattering, and affectivity;
3) facilitating multidisciplinary conversations that integrate culturally aware teaching and mentoring, with particular attention to the role played by educators’ own values and identities;
4) directing programmes that address holistic student success as well as the needs of educators as learners themselves;
5) supporting and maintaining local and global partnerships to pursue meaningful organizational change and advance Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
Access here Dr. Anna Santucci's CV
Biography
Anna Santucci, PhD (she/lei/sie/ella) joined University College Cork in 2022 as Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Teaching and Learning Enhancement in the Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL). She directs CIRTL’s MA program in Teaching and Learning for Higher Education and co-leads UCC’s contributions to Teaching & Learning efforts for the UNIC European University alliance.Anna brings to UCC her fervent vocation for Educational Development, her strong commitment to Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, her international experience within diverse Higher Education settings, and her dedication to promoting intentional, learning-centered, and evidence-based teaching across the disciplines. She cultivates these values locally and internationally in her current roles as co-chair of POD Network’s Professional Development Committee and editor of its POD Perspectives series, member of the Educational Developers in Ireland (EDIN) Committee, vice-president of the All-Ireland Society for Higher Education (AISHE), co-lead of an International Collaborative Writing Group for the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), and Associate Editor of the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED)’s International Journal for Academic Development (IJAD).
Before joining UCC, Anna was Faculty Development Specialist in the Office for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at University of Rhode Island (USA), where she facilitated equitable learning efforts, Inclusive Excellence initiatives, and High Impact Teaching programs. Her story includes a BA in Modern Languages (Padova, Italy), MA in English (Nottingham, UK), and PhD combining Italian and Theatre & Performance (Brown University, USA – where she also served as for several years as Graduate Teaching Consultant at the Sheridan Center).
Anna’s international and transdisciplinary work critically promotes interculturality, equity and justice in higher education via co-creation, reflection, agency, and authentic partnerships. Her scholarship, teaching practice, and collaborations focus on critically inclusive pedagogies informed by applied theatre, performance activism, language education, and intercultural teaching and learning. Her publications appear in venues such as Research in Drama Education, the Scenario Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning and Research, the Journal of Excellence in College Teaching, the Journal of Faculty Development, Teaching and Learning Inquiry, New Directions in Teaching & Learning, and the International Journal for Academic Development.
Highlights about Anna's recent areas of interest include:
- Her 2023 keynote at the Mt Royal Univ SoTL Symposium (Canada) entitled “Growing Together: Liminal Presence, Emergent Dialogue, and Cultural Action Towards Transformative Co-creation in Our Teaching and Learning Journeys”
- a chapter contribution about the Artistry of Teaching in Higher Education as Culturally Self-Aware, Learning-Centered, Imaginative Co-creation
- a Transformative Dialogues special issue about Dialogically Relational Complexity in teaching and learning across the disciplines highlighting trans-disciplinary dialogue, relationships, and communities in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Building Capacity for Affective Connection to Sustain Human-Centered Futures and Subverting the Zero-Sum Paradigm: Advancing Generous and Sustaining Higher Education Ecosystems (ICED 2024)
- Positionality in the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
- Values-Aligned Assessment of Learning and Unique Evaluation Strategies: a VALUES framework for inclusive grading and assessment (POD 2023)
- A framework on supporting wellbeing through meaningful engagement
- Democratic Belonging as Informed Citizenry (POD session at AAC&U 2022)
- Intercultural Educators’ Ethical Practice Across Disciplines
- the role of acknowledgement in transformative Faculty Development programs for Inclusive Teaching
- exploring discomfort, trust, self-awareness, and empathy in her contribution to the Deep Teaching Residency (DTR) curriculum
- Listening to the Sound of Silence in Supporting Instructors' Transitions to Remote Teaching During COVID-19
- Educational Development for Collective Healing, Linguistic Justice, and Wellbeing (POD 2022)
1) nurturing an evidence-based and intellectually-engaged teaching and learning community;
2) sustaining learning-centred teaching strategies that consider motivation, growth mindset, self-realization, empathy, embodiment, belonging, mattering, and affectivity;
3) facilitating multidisciplinary conversations that integrate culturally aware teaching and mentoring, with particular attention to the role played by educators’ own values and identities;
4) directing programmes that address holistic student success as well as the needs of educators as learners themselves;
5) supporting and maintaining local and global partnerships to pursue meaningful organizational change and advance Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
Access here Dr. Anna Santucci's CV