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Elaine Brown

Elaine Brown
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Institutional Lead for Personal Development Tutoring and Ruskin Modules

Elaine is ARU’s Institutional Lead for Personal Development Tutoring and Ruskin Modules, and Associate Professor for interdisciplinary education.

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Location:
Cambridge
Areas of Expertise:
Computing and technology
Background

Before becoming ARU’s Institutional Lead for Personal Development Tutoring and Ruskin Modules, she was Acting Deputy Dean (Student Experience) and Director of Studies in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Elaine designed the MSc User Experience and previously led the MSc Information and Communication Technology (Conversion) course. She taught on a number of computing and technology modules at postgraduate and undergraduate levels of study. Elaine is a University Teaching Fellow and has been awarded Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Outstanding Leadership (Excellent Education), and Excellent Education Collaborative Activities (Team Award).

Research interests
  • Interdisciplinary education design
  • Interdisciplinary education implementation and evaluation
  • User experience design
Qualifications
  • PhD due to complete 2028/9
  • MSc Computer Science, Anglia Ruskin University
  • PGCE Higher Education, Anglia Ruskin University
  • BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, University of Bristol
Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

Hobbs, M.H.W., Gordon, M. and Brown, E., 2007. Evaluation of a Virtual World Environment, Learning & Teaching Fellowship.

Brown, E., 2006-08. A framework of Good Practice for the Integration of e-Learning Tools into Lifelong Learning and Teaching. JISC Capital Programme.

Selected recent publications

Brown, E., 2025. Introduction of Interdisciplinary, Breadth Ruskin Modules. In Pratt-Adams, S., Warnes, M. and Brown, E. (eds) Introducing Interdisciplinary Modules in Higher Education: Enhancing Sustainability and Student Employability. Routledge.

Brown, E., & Rolph, E., 2025. Student stories: experience design for a conference keynote. In Kemp, I., and Scott, S., (eds) Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching: Practice and Pedagogies. Ethics Press.

Brown, E., & Acevedo, B., 2025. Playing with interdisciplinarity in liminal spaces: an institutional perspective. In Kemp, I., and Scott, S., (eds) Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching: Practice and Pedagogies. Ethics Press

Brown, E., & Acevedo, B., 2023. Expert opinion on crowd-sourced challenge. In Lindvig, K.E., (eds) Interdisciplinary Practices in Higher Education: Approaches to Teaching, Researching and Collaborating. Copenhagen: Routledge (forthcoming Summer 2023)

Brown, E., 2022., Making Belonging Explicit by Design. In Lochtie, D., Stork, A. and Walker, B.W. (eds) The Higher Education Personal Tutor’s and Advisor’s Companion. St Albans: Critical Publishing.

Brown, E., & Thomas, L., 2022. Dissonant discourses: Constructing a consistent personal tutoring experience across the whole university. In: The Higher Education Personal Tutor’s and Advisor’s Companion. Critical Publishing.

Brown, E., & Acevedo, B., 2022. Interdisciplinary Design for Ambiguity: work in a wicked world. Advance HE Case Study Series RE: 3E’s for Wicked Problems. AdvanceHE