Carmen Tomas Email & Phone Number

Nottingham, Gb

I am supporting edtech start-up founders in their scale-up phase. In this role I combine two of my passions, education and coaching. I am helping edtech start-up founders setting goals and keeping on track to achieve them over an acceleration period as part of the Dohe Go-Together acceleration programme.

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Engaging with the Curriculum and Assessment Transformation project to continue to assist leadership, frameworks for curriculum and assessment design transformation. I collaborate with University colleagues in the write up of frameworks and research on curriculum and assessment design.

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Managed a tech transfer programme with this Barcelona based Venture Builder. I played a key role supporting research teams from universities going through The Collider programme. The programme offers Opportunity and Business Validation stages and helps products that are in the lab reach market successfully. I have supported the onboarding and completion of the programme for sixteen projects across multiple areas in the opportunity and business validation stages.

Led partnerships working with an extensive network of universities: • I launched new partnerships with universities • I communicated, negotiated and stablished parameters and frameworks for the alliance• Negotiated best fit between institutional needs and our productChange and project management to implement online learning • Led the implementation of the online learning campuses • Managed cross-functional teams (Marketing, Academic, IT, Customer Service)at partner institutions and internally• Managed complex integrated change (policy, staff capacity building, systems, implementation of online learning platforms, customer service) Account Management: Reviewed performance with University teams and identify ongoing developments, changes and new opportunities in response to market needs.

Educational Excellence Team

Vision: I co-developed an innovative framework with key stakeholders to transform curriculum and assessment practice. Working across functions I also led the related policy, processes, and systems changes institution-wide. I worked with all disciplines. Change planning and management: I planned implementation of the vision (upskilling staff, processes, systems and policies) working with all disciplines. • Planned and managed an institution-wide programme of work • Worked with a cross-functional team (marketing, careers, alumni, registry, administration, IT, faculty, assurance, policy, student services, data and planning)• Launched pilot work with all faculties and managed the projects centrallyResource mobilising and managing • I managed internal departmental budgets (£40K) • Prepared a business case and secured internal grants (5-million-pound) to upscale transformation of the curriculum • I secured external grants (£18K, JISC) to lead and inspire developments for learning analyticsTeam building and management I line managed a team of dedicated curriculum design and research assistants.Influence, network, disseminate: I created a network of internal and external stakeholders and collaborators (employers, quality agencies, universities). Achievements: international online conference (520 participants, link); research outputs.

Teaching And Learning Directorate

Experienced leader of organisational transformation of practices and processes to enhance institutional effectiveness• Transformation project lead (external and internal projects)• Development of strategies (e.g. digital transformation of practices; organisation-level frameworks for practices and for quality assurance) • Influencing, engaging and consulting a broad range of stakeholders (Senior staff, practitioners, students, professional services)• Excellent and experienced communicator (e.g briefings, papers, press articles, academic journals, conference dissemination)• Mixed methods researcher and evaluation (e.g. digital platforms, client satisfaction, process effectiveness). Experienced in the use of a broad range of methods (e.g. questionnaires, focus groups, interviewing, business requirement gathering).• Knowledge and experience of systems thinking for change (e.g. organisational systems and technology, processes and their interconnection)• Lead on innovative methods to lead institutional effectiveness (e.g. machine learning for learner analytics).External roles* From January 2019 leading a JISC Research project on Learning Analytics (Assessment) in partnership with UCL* Associate Editor for Frontiers Journal: Assessment, Testing and Applied Measurement

My role had two main remits: institutional research and development. I worked on an extensive portfolio of institution-wide and School-based projects. The topics included: assessment and feedback practice; e-Assessment (e-submissions, e-tests, e-feedback, audio feedback); student satisfaction with assessment and feedback; course, module design and assessment reviews; best pedagogic practice; widening participation; academic quality assurance structures. Institutional research and evaluation In this capacity, my role consisted in: Keeping up to date with sector developments (policy, research) and writing literature reviews; designing evaluation instruments (interviews, observation schedules, questionnaires); collecting and analysing data (statistical, policy documents, interview data); report writing with recommendations and advice for development (policy, strategy, staff development and implementation strategies). Institutional development: project lead, consultations and disseminationThis element of my role involved influencing institutional practice in various ways: • Senior User in a technical development project to improve the institutional VLE supporting e-assessment• Project managed and led a project to transform institutional practice in relation to coursework submissions and feedback moving to electronic assessment. This involved managing: project timelines, tasks and resource, monitor progress and update senior management boards and communications. • Leading consultations in Schools on developments • Presenting to academic staff to disseminate good practice (quality committees, development days, staff conference, PGCHE sessions) • Writing working papers for senior management team committees• Resource creation and dissemination (e.g. events, workshops) for academic development purposes.

This national project evaluated the patterns of adoption of new technologies in teaching and learning in secondary schools in the UK. My duties included:• Carrying out educational research studies in schools including interviews with learners, teachers and senior managers• Collating, analysing and presenting digital data • Contributing to written publications and dissemination events • Managing the project and working in an interdisciplinary team• Development of project websites for internal and external use• Multiple regression analysis of attainment school data

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

National project working with employers and academics to embed employability in the curriculum. • Co-design and production of multimedia employability resources (all disciplines) • Impact evaluation (research, data analysis)

Phd, Education And Information And Communication Technologies

Doctoral thesis title: ‘Text Segmentation for On-screen Foreign Language Authentic Text Reading’ Through my doctoral work I gained.

Mphil In Education, Educational Research Methods, B+

Activities and Societies: Rowing clubTraining received in qualitative and quantitative research methods, basic statistics (A) and data.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs) - Completed 2 Years Of Study, Maths And Statistics

Studied Level 1 and Level 2 statistics modules on Data Analysis.

Ba (Hons), Modern Languages (Spanish And English) And European Studies, 1St Class

I gained knowledge in a range of subject areas: • Politics: European Policies and Institutions; Spanish, British and Latin American.

Ilm 5, Coaching And Mentoring, Pass