Professor Ruth Healey
Professor
Biography
Ruth Healey is a Professor of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, a University Innovation Fellow, and a lecturer in human geography at the University of Chester, UK. As an University Innovation Fellow she provides leadership for educational change, the enhancement of academic practice, and sharing good practice at Subject Area, School, Faculty and University levels. As Programme Leader for the BA Geography she works with colleagues in Geography & Environment to organise, manage, develop and promote the programme.
Teaching and Supervision
Professor Healey teachers human geography and is module leader for: HU4200: Changing the World HU5204: Society and Space HU6207: Excluded Peoples She also teaches on HU4203 People and Places, HU4204 Researching Environments, HU5200 Geographical Research: Methods and Geomatics and supervises students undertaking HU6200 Going Places: Dissertation. Ruth has supervised the following PhDs - Andrea Todd: ‘Towards Social Justice for Student-Parents: Learning from lived experiences to address social injustice for undergraduate students with parental responsibility in the UK’ (Awarded 2025). Secondary supervisor - Sophie Cowell: ‘The use of positive action within football coaching’. (Awarded 2021). Secondary supervisor - John Morrow: ‘The experience students with Dyslexia, have of academic assessment, whilst studying for a qualifying law degree in small northern university’ (Awarded 2017). Secondary supervisor
Research and Knowledge Exchange
Professor Healey's research is in learning and teaching. Her pedagogic research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning, teaching for social transformations, debates, ethics, and students as partners. Ruth has written over 50 pedagogic publications and led workshops and presentations on learning and teaching over 70 times including 50 invited keynotes, workshops, and seminars. She was on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education (2009-2024) and is one of the inaugural Editors of the International Journal for Students as Partners (2016-).