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The Pedagogy and Practice of Active Learning in Diverse Learning Environments

Dr Samuel Adu-Amankwah is a lecturer in Civil Engineering and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). He has worked in the higher education sector since 2011. During this period, he has taught modules in advanced concrete technology, materials engineering, construction technology, and surveying related subjects drawing from over 5 years’ industrial experience. Before joining University of Leeds, Sam worked as resident engineer on major civil engineering schemes including construction of the Baba Yara Stadium for the 2008 African Cup of Nations and remodelling of commercial centres. As project engineer at RecordRSS, York, he worked on a number of design and build recreational schemes for councils across Yorkshire and the Midlands.

Tim joined the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 2017, initially to work on the SWJTU-Leeds Joint School project, based in Xipu, China. During his time on the project, he was instrumental in establishing and developing the laboratories and teaching capabilities for the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Programme delivered at the Joint School, and was a key contributor to the programme's successful IET accreditation in 2021.

I teach and research in Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining and Text Analytics, in the School of Computing at Leeds University. I also work 40% (2 days a week) at LITE Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence as a LITE Fellow, on research in AI for Decolonizing Reading Lists. I am also a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and a member of LIDA Leeds Institute for Data Analytics and LATL Language At Leeds