Ms. Helen Pokorny

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  • Ms. Helen Pokorny
    • Country: United Kingdom
    • Title: Principal Lecturer in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education
    • Organization: University of Westminster

  Helen is the Course Leader for the MA in Higher Education. This is flexible online course in professional development for staff in Higher Education  (HE) which provides multiple exit awards and a direct entry route to a Professional Doctorate with  extensive opportunities for prior learning credit.  Helen is an experienced educational developer with a range of learning and teaching activities and curriculum development projects undertaken during the last decade. She is currently researching students’ sense of belonging in HE and the implications for academic practice. Her work on APEL derives from over a decade working with students and staff in higher education to facilitate the process (guidance site http://apel.londonmet.ac.uk/index.html). She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Prior Learning International Research Centre (PLIRC) in Canada  http://www.tru.ca/distance/plirc.html  and a member of the Executive Board of SEEC the South of England Credit Consortium http://www.seec.org.uk/ . Helen is Co-chair of the SEEC APEL Network which is a community of prior learning practitioners working in Higher Education. In 2011 Helen was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship Award for her achievements in Learning and Teaching.

  Recent Publications

  • Pokorny, H. (2012), ‘Assessing Prior Experiential Learning: issues of authority, authorship and identity,’ Journal of Workplace Learning, Special ‘Edition Learning through Experience: Developing Synergies between Research and Practice in Workplace Learning, Work-based Learning and the Recognition of Prior Learning.’ Vol 24, No 2.
  • Pokorny, H. (2011) ‘APEL research in English Higher Education’ in Harris, J., Breier, M. and Wihak, C. (eds) Researching the Recognition of Prior Learning, PLIRC/NIACE.