Joanna Renc-Roe

Joanna Renc-Roe has been the development manager and one of the CRC instructors at CEU since 2003. Joanna holds a PhD in education from Keele University, UK, and an MPhil in gender studies from the Open University, UK.
Joanna has been responsible for developing and implementing a range of programs for visiting academics at the Curriculum Resource Center since 2003.  Currently, Joanna is the lead instructor for two courses run by the CEU Center for Teaching and Learning.
Her main professional focus has been teacher development, teaching and learning and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
She has taken part in institutional research of both CRC and CEU programs, she has served in many professional associations and she has often presented her work and research internationally.
Her current research interests include internationalisation, higher education policy and practice, higher education pedagogies and the scholarship of teaching and learning, gender and higher education.

In her professional capacity Joanna has developed a two semester training program in teaching in higher education (TiHE) for doctoral students. She had also designed a course portfolio project for academics participating in a course design grant program (CDC) and she has developed and implemented a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Fellowship Program (SOTL Fellowship), a one year faculty research program in teaching and learning (since 2007). Further to that, she has designed and taught a management workshop on strategic academic development for senior university leaders. As part of the CRC working group on institutional effectiveness and outcomes, Joanna has contributed research and development materials for the CEU’s own internal policy and for its US accreditation process.  She has also been coordinating CEU’s involvement in the Carnegie Academy’s Institutional Leadership Program (CASTL) between 2006-2009, in which CEU was the only selected continental European institution.

Joanna has regularly presented her work and research in many international conferences (in US, UK, Canada, Ireland, Palestine), and at particular institutions, she has served on the review board of the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (IJ-SOTL), the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSOTL) and on the International Advisory Board of the Irish National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NARTL). Joanna has provided consulting in teaching and learning support for other universities in Hungary, Palestine, Slovakia, and elsewhere.