Professor Mark Allinson
Academic Director
Mark is responsible for overseeing the development and quality of academic provision in the London campus, aligned to the University’s Education and Curriculum strategies. He works closely with both academic and professional services teams and collaborates with students to co-create an excellent learning experience.
Current modules taught:
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Preparing to Learn in London
Career biography:
Mark has nearly three decades of experience in leadership in higher education. Before coming to University of Portsmouth London, Mark was Director of Student Experience at the LSE. His broad remit included work on community, communications, students' voices and feedback, data analysis and evaluation, academic support and opportunities.
He was the senior university lead for relations with the Student Union. Mark started his career at Royal Holloway, London where he created a new department in the 1990s before moving to the University of Leicester as Professor of Spanish and Head of the School of Modern Languages.
More recently he was Associate Provost at Regent’s University London, leading on student experience and educational development. His disciplinary research was in the area of Spanish culture, literature and film, on which he published three books and numerous chapters and articles.
His more recent work and publications are focused on distributed educational leadership, and collaborative design.
Research Interests:
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Curriculum design, especially active, blended learning
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Collaboration and creative tools for learning design
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Distributed leadership in HE
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Simulation in leadership and management education
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Developing teachers in higher education
Recent Publications
‘Modelling transdisciplinary pedagogy: a method for collaborative curriculum design’. (with Kieran Mahon), Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 19 (3), 2022. ISSN 1449-9789
‘The Global Perspectives Project: building shared leadership through curriculum design’ (with Kieran Mahon), in Delivering Educational Change in Higher Education eds Jackie Potter and Cristina Devecchi. London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 167-185.
Published Books
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A Spanish Labyrinth: The films of Pedro Almodóvar. London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2001, 258pp.
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Un laberinto español. Las películas de Pedro Almodóvar. Madrid: Ocho y Medio, 2003, 347pp.
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¡Te toca!: A New Communicative Spanish Course (with Richard Pym). London: Arnold, 2002, 285pp.
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Spanish Cinema: A Student’s Guide. (with Barry Jordan), London: Arnold, 2005, 229pp