Education Committee
Education Committee Members 2025-26
Chair: Elizabeth Pender (Leeds) (elected November 2021)
Kate Gilliver (Cardiff) (second term 2021)
Jamie Wood (Lincoln) (second term 2021)
Jason Davies (UCL) (second term 2021)
James Robson (Open University) (August 2024)
Franco Basso (Cambridge) (August 2025)
Shelley Hales (Bristol) (August 2025)
Max Leventhal (Edinburgh) (August 2025)
Sophie-Ann Schoess (St Andrews) (August 2025)
Our purpose is to support higher education pedagogy, including curriculum delivery and development, in Classical Studies and related disciplines across the UK.
· We contribute to regular meetings of CUCD across the year: the three meetings of the Standing Committee, where Education Committee is represented by its Chair, and a plenary Council meeting in November, at which all UK Classics Departments and affiliated members are represented.
· The Education Committee hosts its own wordpress blog: Teaching Classics and Ancient History in HE, available at https://cucdeducation.wordpress.com/. The blog is open to all members of CUCD, for posts to promote dialogue on specific issues of pedagogy, and for longer articles on individual themes relevant to teaching Classics, Ancient History and cognate disciplines in HE.
· We run an annual grant scheme to fund pedagogical projects and events, to respond to current challenges in Classics HE teaching and to reflect on and improve teaching practice in our subject community. Small grants support academics, postgraduate and other researchers in a range of pedagogical activities, for example, developing new approaches to teaching, producing new training materials, hosting smaller-scale events or contributing to larger educational initiatives in the various disciplines of Classics.
· We liaise with the editor of CUCD Bulletin to generate and publish articles on live pedagogical issues, including reports from the projects funded by our grant scheme.