Departmental Advising

Each academic department at the LSE has its own dedicated Eden Centre Departmental Advisers (one Academic Developer and one Learning Technologist) who offer evidence-based guidance and expertise on:  

  • academic staff development  

  • curriculum enrichment  

  • the effective use of educational technologies in teaching and learning.  

Go to list of Departmental Advisers

What are the aims of Departmental Advising?  

  • To work in partnership with LSE’s academic departments to facilitate educational development, enhancement and innovation that is aligned to School-wide priorities. 

  • To provide high-quality, evidence-informed and tailored educational guidance and consultancy that is equitable across departments.  

  • To facilitate connections and the sharing of best practice between departments and across the School.  

How will we do this?  

  • By using departmental data to inform department-specific educational development priorities and gaps.

  • By communicating to departments cross-university and sector-wide trends in good educational practice, and advising on their applicability to individual disciplinary practices.

  • By offering tailored educational enhancement and development activity where appropriate. 

Department advisers will:  

  • Be a named point of contact for individuals and teams. 

  • Support the development and implementation of department educational plans, drawing on data (e.g., NSS, School surveys) and School-wide priorities. 

  • Annually, agree in partnership with the department what educational development activity is appropriate.  

  • Offer regular updates on Eden Centre activity.  

  • Report trends and good practices back to Eden.

  • Be available to attend Departmental meetings and DTCs as required.  

Some examples of recent work 

  • Departmental Advisers for the Department of Health Policy helped a colleague to refine the course, including the use of game design as assessment, to obtain departmental and School approval, and advised on creating videos for assessment.  

  • The Department of Media & Communications investigated student responses to emotionally distressing teaching topics, with funding from Catalyst to support student focus groups. Students generated constructive ways to work with distressing content, touching on both teaching design and delivery, and peer interactions.  

  • With support from their departmental adviser, the Department of International Development explored ways to standardise the marking and feedback process and make it more efficient. The collaboration resulted in a bespoke Moodle marking workflow that improved consistency for students and greatly reduced the time required to mark and administer assessments. 

  • Department advisers collaborated with colleagues from the Management, Sociology and Media & Communications departments to develop and deliver bespoke training sessions for their faculty on the use of AI in education. Faculty were given the opportunity to experiment with AI tools and explore how they might be used in their teaching and research. 

Below you can find details for your two departmental advisers - click through to their bios or contact them by email. We look forward to working with you! 

Department

Academic development adviser

Learning technology adviser

Accounting

Yang Yang 

y.yang170@lse.ac.uk

Eoin Meade

e.a.meade@lse.ac.uk

Anthropology

Dr Ellis Saxey

e.saxey@lse.ac.uk

Darren Moon

d.p.moon@lse.ac.uk

Data Science Institute

Yang Yang 

y.yang170@lse.ac.uk

Abigail Myers

a.a.myers@lse.ac.uk

Economic History

Dr Alex Standen

a.m.standen@lse.ac.uk

Zahra Clarke-Johnney

z.clarke-johnney@lse.ac.uk

Economics

Mark Baltovic

m.p.baltovic@lse.ac.uk

Darren Moon

d.p.moon@lse.ac.uk

European Institute

Dr Claire Gordon

c.e.gordon@lse.ac.uk

Sonja Grussendorf

s.grussendorf@lse.ac.uk

Finance

 

Dr Alex Standen

a.m.standen@lse.ac.uk

 

Aurèlia Puigdomènech

a.puigdomenech@lse.ac.uk

Currently on maternity leave, please contact Darren Moon (d.p.moon@lse.ac.uk) in the interim

Gender Studies

Dr Ellis Saxey

e.saxey@lse.ac.uk

Darren Moon

d.p.moon@lse.ac.uk

Geography and Environment

Dr Jenni Carr 

j.carr4@lse.ac.uk

Abigail Myers

a.a.myers@lse.ac.uk

Government

 

Dr Alex Standen

a.m.standen@lse.ac.uk

 

Aurèlia Puigdomènech

a.puigdomenech@lse.ac.uk

Currently on maternity leave, please contact Kris Roger (k.roger@lse.ac.uk) in the interim

Health Policy

Yang Yang 

y.yang170@lse.ac.uk

Eoin Meade

e.a.meade@lse.ac.uk

International Development

Lee-Ann Sequeira

l.sequeira@lse.ac.uk

 

Aurèlia Puigdomènech

a.puigdomenech@lse.ac.uk

Currently on maternity leave, please contact Eoin Meade (e.a.meade@lse.ac.uk) in the interim

International History

Marina Franchi

m.franchi@lse.ac.uk

Laurence Horstman l.horstman@lse.ac.uk

International Relations

Dr Claire Gordon

c.e.gordon@lse.ac.uk

Darren Moon

d.p.moon@lse.ac.uk

Language Centre

 Dr Alex Standen

a.m.standen@lse.ac.uk 

Abigail Myers

a.a.myers@lse.ac.uk

Law

Lee-Ann Sequeira

l.sequeira@lse.ac.uk

Kris Roger

k.roger@lse.ac.uk

LSE100

Dr Ellis Saxey

e.saxey@lse.ac.uk

Laurence Horstman 

l.horstman@lse.ac.uk

Management

Yang Yang 

y.yang170@lse.ac.uk

Eoin Meade

e.a.meade@lse.ac.uk

Mathematics

Mark Baltovic

m.p.baltovic@lse.ac.uk

Kris Roger

k.roger@lse.ac.uk

Media and Communications

Dr Ellis Saxey

e.saxey@lse.ac.uk

Sonja Grussendorf

s.grussendorf@lse.ac.uk

Methodology

Mark Baltovic

m.p.baltovic@lse.ac.uk and

Marina Franchi

m.franchi@lse.ac.uk

Kris Roger

k.roger@lse.ac.uk

Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

Marina Franchi

m.franchi@lse.ac.uk

Eoin Meade

e.a.meade@lse.ac.uk

Psychological and Behavioural Science

Dr Jenni Carr 

j.carr4@lse.ac.uk

Zahra Clarke-Johnney

z.clarke-johnney@lse.ac.uk

School of Public Policy

Lee-Ann Sequeira

l.sequeira@lse.ac.uk

Laurence Horstman 

l.horstman@lse.ac.uk

Social Policy

Dr Jenni Carr 

j.carr4@lse.ac.uk

Sonja Grussendorf

s.grussendorf@lse.ac.uk

Sociology

Dr Claire Gordon

c.e.gordon@lse.ac.uk

Zahra Clarke-Johnney

z.clarke-johnney@lse.ac.uk

Statistics

Mark Baltovic

m.p.baltovic@lse.ac.uk

Kris Roger

k.roger@lse.ac.uk