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Dr Elizabeth Hidson

Senior Lecturer in International Initial Teacher Training, SCITT PgCert Programme Leader, Research and Knowledge Exchange Fellow

Email:

elizabeth.hidson@sunderland.ac.uk

Pronouns:

she/her

About Dr Elizabeth Hidson

My teaching background began in UK secondary education. Having completed my PGCE with QTS in Information Technology (11–18) 1999–2000, I spent 14 years in London schools. I held a range of school leadership roles up to and including Deputy Headteacher.

Strategic projects that I worked on include the SSAT Specialist Schools programme, Building Schools for the Future (BSF), academy conversion, and setting up a new sixth form. I have also been an SSAT Lead Practitioner, an Advanced Skills Teacher (AST), and a Chartered London Teacher, dedicated to raising standards in teaching and learning.

I moved to the north-east in 2014 to study full-time for my doctorate at Durham University. I worked as a post-doctoral Research Associate at Newcastle University on a range of funded international educational technology research projects and taught Sutton Trust supported progression, PGCE, MA, and doctoral training courses at Durham University and Newcastle University before joining the University of Sunderland's International Initial Teacher Training Team in 2018.

As a Senior Lecturer, I lead the 60-credit PgCert Education (SCITT), working with school-centred Initial Teacher Training partners in the north of England. I am module leader for core Level 7 MA modules EDPM01: Development of Learning (PGCE Education) and IQSM01: Professional Learning in International Secondary Education (PGCE with iQTS).

I was appointed as a Research and Knowledge Exchange Fellow in 2023.