Mick Healey

Mick Healey is Professor of Geography at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Active Learning in Geography, Environment and Related Disciplines, a HEFCE-funded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and Co-Director of a four year Economic and Social Research Council project on Enhancing the quality and outcomes of disabled students’ learning in higher education. He is the Director of the Geography Discipline Network (GDN) and Senior Advisor for Geography to The Higher Education Academy’s Subject Centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. In 2000 he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship.

In 2004 the Council of the Royal Geographical Society conferred on him the Taylor and Francis Award for ‘contributions to the promotion of learning and teaching in higher education’. He is Regional Vice-President (Europe) of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Co-chair of the International Network for Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education, and a committee member of the UK Research and Teaching Forum.