Dr Jill LeBihan SFHEA
Head of Student Engagement
Summary
My current work focuses on student engagement, including representation, co-creation and extra-curricular reward and recognition.
I am an experienced lecturer, mentor, and academic leader, with skills in curriculum and programme design. I have an interest in teaching innovation and the use of digital technology to support academic delivery in creative ways.
About
I have had extensive HE leadership experience for courses, programmes, departmental recruitment, and College student support and student experience. I currently have a university-wide, student-engagement role in the Directorate of Student Engagement, Evaluation and Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
My current interests centre on working with students and staff on projects related to co-creation and co-design, induction and transition, digital technology in teaching and learning, academic integrity, and student voice.
Teaching
I currently contribute to the PGCert HE course for new staff. I previously have taught English Literature and Women’s Studies at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
I have developed and led a large number of undergraduate and taught postgraduate modules including literary and critical theory, feminist theory, children’s literature, travel literature, contemporary fiction, postcolonial fiction, Canadian and American literature.
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Leadership Foundation-funded project on the use of the student voice in performance management
HEFCE Catalyst Fund project on sexual harassment and hate crime prevention in the university community
REACT (Realising Engagement through Active Cultural Transformation)- Creation and confidence: BME students as academic partners
Publications
Journal articles
Lebihan, J., Lowe, T., & Marie, J. (2018). . Journal of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 1 (2), 173-180.
Jones-Devitt, S., Austen, L., Chitwood, E., Donnelly, A., Fearn, C., Heaton, C., ... Pickering, N. (2017). Journal of Educational Innovation Partnership and Change, 3 (1), 278-285.
LeBihan, J. (2005). Feminismo y literatura. Nerter, 8, 29-31.
Lebihan, J. (2001). Tearing the Heart Out of Secrets: Inside and outside a murder mystery. Journal of Gender Studies, 10 (3), 287-295.
LEBIHAN, J. (1996). Feminisms. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 6 (1), 45-56.
LeBIHAN, J. (1995). Feminism. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 5 (1), 64-78.
Green, K., & LeBihan, J. (1994). The Speaking Object: Daphne Marlatt's Pronouns and Lesbian Poetics. Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism, 28 (3), 432-444.
LeBihan, J. (1992). Gorilla Girls and Chimpanzee Mothers: Sexual and Cultural Identity in the Primatologist's Field1. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 27 (1), 139-148.
Book chapters
LeBihan, J., Hughes, C., & Taylor, C.A. (2018). Chapter 10 The Teaching Excellence Framework: Quality, Equality and Student Engagement in English Higher Education. In Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning. (pp. 141-154). Emerald Publishing Limited:
LeBihan, J. (1991). The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye and Interlunar: Margaret Atwood's Feminist(?) Futures(?). In Narrative Strategies in Canadian Literature: Feminism and Postcolonialism. (pp. 93-107). Milton Keynes, Eng: Open University Press
Reports
Clague, L., Demack, S., & Lebihan, J. (2022). Scoping the impact evaluation of learning analytics in Higher Education. TASO.
Theses / Dissertations
Ginesi, K.A. (2011). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Ryall, T., Speidel, S., Lebihan, J., & Constable, C.
Smith, K.P. (2004). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Lebihan, J., & Earnshaw, S.
Mellor, J.D. (2003). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Lebihan, J.
Holland, S. (2002). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Lebihan, J.
Lydon, E. (2001). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Mills, S., & Lebihan, J.
Other activities
I am a mentor as part of the Aurora project and occasionally mentor colleagues on a more informal basis on request.
Postgraduate supervision
I am currently supervising one doctoral candidate.
I have supervised about 10 doctoral candidates to completion, including creative/critical projects, work on Canadian literature, on narrative, and on feminist and psychoanalytic literary theory.