Bob Glass
Course Leader –Common Undergraduate Programme, Departmental Disability Advisor
Tel: 0161 247 6140
E-mail: n.r.glass@mmu.ac.uk
Room: 438 Geoffrey Manton Building
Responsibilities
- Course Leader – Common Undergraduate Programme
- Departmental Disability Advisor
- Departmental Dyslexia Support Tutor
- Personal Tutor – first year students
- Student Placements Officer for Undergraduate and MA/MSc courses
- MMU Co-ordinator for the WISE Online Learning Consortium
Teaching
- First Year -Information Literacies for the digital Age (ILDA)
- Second Year – Community Information
- Second Year – Network Technologies
- Third Year – Learning & Professional Development
- Third Year – Final Project & Dissertation supervision
- Masters - Dissertation supervision
Research activities
Learning Area Co-ordinator for research & development into Information Literacy at MMU as part of the HEFCE funded collaborative LearnHigher CETL. This is a very active and progressive national research project and the only CETL project in the University. Funding is currently running at around of £250,000.
Further details about UK CETLs are at: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/learning/TInits/cetl/
More information on MMU LearnHigher CETL can be found at: http://learnhigher.ac.uk/
Biography
Bob Glass (BA, ALA, FETC, Dip MST& Fellow of the Higher Education Academy) has worked with the department since 1991, initially on a part-time and consultancy basis and latterly as a full-time member of staff. Bob teaches on Common Undergraduate Degree routes and MA/MSc courses.
Bobs career has included work with libraries, bookshops, publishers, software houses, IT training companies and management training companies. Whilst at MMU he has been involved in student support and guidance, web site development and course development/planning. Bob has worked in further and higher education including sessional work at Wirral Metropolitan College and Liverpool John Moore’s University. He has extensive experience in teaching/ training technical subjects and library based competencies. He has taught and presented extensively at Universities and Conferences in the UK, Europe, Africa and the USA.
Bob lives on the Wirral, has three (large) children and enjoys music, playing guitar, walking and travel.