Our people
The Stirling Curriculum Centre is led by Professor Mark Priestley.
Other members of the leadership team are:
International Advisory Board
SCC is supported by an International Advisory Board.
- Christine Downie, Advisory Board Chair, Secondary Headteacher, East Renfrewshire Council
- Daniel Alvunger, Professor and Vice-Rector, Linnaeus University, Sweden
- Rowena Arshad, Professor Emerita, University of Edinburgh
- Andrew Bailey, Secondary Teacher
- Ollie Bray, Strategic Director, Education Scotland
- Billy Burke, Head of Development and Innovation, SAMH
- Kathy Hibbert, Professor, Teacher Education, Western University, Ontario
- Mary James, Professor Emerita and Fellow Commoner, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge
- Kathleen Johnston, Independent Advisor and Researcher
- Sian Jones, Senior Lecturer, Queen Margaret University
- Stephen Kelly, Head of Education, Edinburgh City Council
- Tracy Kirk, Lecturer in Child and Family Law, University of Stirling
- Gillian MacCallum, Principal Primary Teacher at Falkirk Council
- Cathy MacKenzie, Primary Headteacher, Orkney Islands Council
- Lyndsay McRoberts, Director of Education, South Lanarkshire Council
- Stavroula Philippou. Associate Professor in Curriculum and Teaching, University of Cyprus
- Alan Sherry, Chair, CLD Standards Council
- Pauline Stephen, Chief Executive and Registrar, GTC Scotland
Associate Fellows
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Name |
Expertise |
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Dave Gregory |
Senior HMI (History) and strategic director with Education Scotland |
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Stuart Farmer |
Experienced in supporting curriculum making (physics) and very well-connected in Scottish science education. PhD in professional learning. |
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Lauren McKechnie |
Experienced science teacher, currently QIO in Falkirk (responsibility for probationer CPD) |
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Jennifer Hutton |
Sustainability, outdoor education, primary PT |
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Jane Arthur |
LA Officer, Professional Learning |
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Steph Thomson |
Primary teacher, Curriculum making |
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Lety Riddell |
Secondary DHT, Curriculum making |
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Liam Mason |
Sustainability education |
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Sharon Kean |
National Adviser Humanities Education Scotland |
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Hermione Miao |
Geography curriculum making |
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Linda Burke |
Special education, literacy, school refusers, Indigenous communities |
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Jennifer M Knussen |
Compassionate leadership and classroom management. |
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James Stewart |
Maths education and additional provision within mainstream |
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Nuzhat Uthmani |
Citizenship education, antiracism, decolonial pedagogies, and racial literacy |
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Tom Colquhoun |
Peace Pedagogies |
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Stuart MacFarlane MacAlpine |
Ontologies of curriculum within the Curriculum Improvement Cycle |
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Andy Brown |
National Specialist Mathematics Adviser to the Scottish Government |
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Katie Hunter |
Anti Racist Education. Secondary History |
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Diana Firth |
Global Citizenship/Rights/Peace Education/LfS/Decolonial/Anti-Racist |
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Charlotte Dwyer |
Global Citizenship Education and anti racist education |
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Jonathan Cordiner |
Virtual senior phase and CIC implementation |
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Christine Downie |
Whole school curriculum innovation. Leading professional learning in region. |