Dr Lucie Pollard

Dr Lucie Pollard is Director of Academic Operations at the ��, School of Medicine. Prior to joining ��, Lucie was Director of the London Campus of the University of the West of Scotland, supporting the educational journey of its international students. She also held senior positions at the University of Greenwich in both a strategic and an operational capacity.

Research Interests

Lucie’s research endeavours to understand student experiences in culturally diverse classrooms, student engagement and belonging. In 2013 Lucie was awarded a Higher Education Academy Teaching Development Grant in collaboration with London Metropolitan University for a project looking into student engagement in culturally diverse classrooms in urban Higher Education Institutions. In 2019 Lucie co-authored ‘Cultural Journeys in Higher Education’.

BSc (Hons) Human Nutrition, Kings College London, 1989

PhD Human Nutrition, Kings College London, 1995

Executive MBA University of Greenwich, 2015

Publications

Papers

Pollard, L. & Bamford, J. 2022. Lost in transition: Student journeys and becoming—Deliberations for a post‐COVID era. The Curriculum Journal, 33, 346-361. doi:o110.1002/curj.132

Bamford, J. & Pollard, L. 2018. Developing relationality and student belonging: The need for building cosmopolitan engagement in undergraduate communities. London Review of Education, 16, 214-227. doi:o10.18546/LRE.16.2.03

Bamford, J., Djebbour, Y. & Pollard, L. 2015. “I’ll do this no matter if I have to fight the world!”: Resilience as a learning outcome in Urban Universities. Journal for Multicultural Education, 9, 140-158. doi:o10.1108/JME-05-2015-0013

Jackson, C., Dempster, S. & Pollard, L. 2015. “They just don’t seem to really care, they just think it’s cool to sit there and talk”: laddism in university teaching-learning contexts. Educational Review, 67, 300-314. doi:o10.1080/00131911.2014.910178

Zand, N., Chowdhry, B. Z., Pollard, L. V., Pullen, F. S., Snowden, M. J. & Zotor, F. B. 2015. Commercial ‘ready‐to‐feed ’infant foods in the UK: macro‐nutrient content and composition. Maternal & child nutrition, 11, 202-214. doi:o10.1111/j.1740-8709.2012.00445.x

Books

Bamford, J. & Pollard, L. 2019. Cultural journeys in higher education: student voices and narratives, Emerald Group Publishing.

Conference Presentations

Bamford, J., and Pollard, L.V. (2016)"We take care of her - they don't!": an exploration of students' relationality in culturally diverse higher education classrooms’, British Educational Research Association Annual Conference

Bamford, J., and Pollard, L., (2015) Developing cosmopolitan engagement – a challenge for culturally plural higher education institutions? Inequality of active citizenship: LLAKES/AMCIS Conference, UCL Institute of Education.

Bamford,J., Djebbour, Y., Pollard, L. (2014) An exploration of student engagement in culturally diverse classrooms in urban, cosmopolitan higher education institutions in the UK, Individuality and Resilience in Learning and Education ELSIN Annual Conference, University of the West of Scotland

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