Dr Steph Fuller, BA (Hons) (Cardiff University), MA (UCL), PhD (University of East Anglia)
Academic Practice Taught Programmes Manager
Email: stephanie.fuller@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: Department W
Profile
Dr Steph Fuller, PFHEA, is the Queen Mary Academy's Academic Practice Taught Programmes Manager. Steph leads the Academy’s taught programmes Certificate in Learning and Teaching (CILT) and Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP), with responsibility for managing the programmes, leading modules, teaching and supporting colleagues. She also leads curriculum enhancement support across the university with a focus on curriculum design, employability, sustainability and assessment.
Steph joined QMUL in 2014 as an Education Adviser and worked to support colleagues on the taught programmes by teaching and leading modules. She also led on dissemination of good practice through organising teaching and learning events including the Teaching and Learning Conference, and managed education grants and funding. Before coming to QMUL, Steph lectured at UG and PG levels in the School of Film, Television and Media at the University of East Anglia and previously worked in the civil service. She received her PhD in film studies from the University of East Anglia in 2013 (funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council) and had her thesis published as a monograph. She has research interests around areas of online education, employability, curriculum enhancement and co-creation and sustainability in education. She was awarded Principal Fellowship of Advance HE in 2025.
Teaching
Steph teaches on the CILT, PGCAP and MEd programmes, and leads module QMA7002 Enhancing Curriculum Design.
Research
Research Interests:
Curriculum design, internationalisation and interdisciplinarity in HE. Online and blended learning design and communities of practice in online learning.
Examples of research funding:
- 2024, Queen Mary President and Principal’s Fund for Educational Excellence. Co-lead. SustainAbility in the Curriculum: Co-creating Queen Mary’s Virtual Greenspace. (£20,000)
- 2023, Queen Mary Education Excellence Awards. President and Principal’s Prize Winner for leadership of Graduate Attributes Working Group
- 2023, ALDinHE Research Funding. Project lead. Supporting student learning and development through online portfolios for employability. (£1,000)
- 2023, ALDinHE Research Funding. Co-lead. Promoting equity in education for sustainable development through community-based learning and teaching: A case study of two collaborating universities in East London. (£1,000)
Publications
De Wilde, J., Fuller, S., & Sturgess, Z. (2025). A Conceptual Framework to Embed Sustainability in the Curricula of a UK University. Sustainability, 17 (12), 5605. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17125605
Shah, R., Preston, A., Fuller, S., & Dimova, E. (2024). Promoting equity in education for sustainable development through community-based learning and teaching. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (32). https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi32.1395
Cabral, A., Fuller, S., De Wilde, J., Khama, K., & Melsen, M. (2023). Curriculum enhancement through co-creation: Fostering student-educator partnerships in higher education. International Journal for Students As Partners, 7 (2), 111–123. https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v7i2.5280
De Wilde, J., Cavalli, G., Fuller. S. (2021). Online Communities of Practice for Academic Practice and a Sense of Belonging. Online Communities for Doctoral Researchers and their Supervisors: Building Engagement with Social Media. Julie Sheldon and Victoria Sheppard eds. Routledge.