Dr Panna Karlinger PhD, BSc, PGCTHE (Aberystwyth), SFHEA

I came to Aberystwyth in 2016 after finishing high school in Hungary and went on to gain the Colin Easthope Award (2017), VC Morton Prize (2018) and Pennington Prize in Pure Mathematics (2019) for academic excellence during my undergraduate studies. I graduated in 2019 with a first class degree in Mathematics / Education (BSc Joint Honours), and proceeded to pursue a PhD in education from 2019 to 2024. My PhD research focused on cyberbullying and online abuse in higher education. My other research topics include technology-enhanced learning and teaching, AI in education and mathematics teaching, learning and teaching in HE, autism, play and play therapy. I have been a lecturer in the School of Education since 2021, primarily teaching on the UG provision (since 2019) and now on the PGR and National MA provision also (since 2024). Besides my teaching and research in Education, I also deliver the mathematics equivalency courses in the Lifelong Learning department for the ITE and Nursing Partnership. During my time here as an educator, I have been given the Mentor of the Year (2019), Postgraduate Teacher of the Year (2020) and Lecturer of the Year (2021) awards and was further nominated for Academic Representative of the Year (2019) and Creative Marker (2020). I recently also won the Exemplary Course Awards (ECA, 2023 and 2024) for my module, Making Sense of the Curriculum. I worked as one of the central coordinators of the Peer Guide Scheme at the university located in Student Support (2020/21), taught in the Further Mathematics Support Program for Wales (FMSPW) with Swansea University (2018-2021), and spent a term teaching mathematics in the Lifelong Learning Department of the University of Sheffield (2021).

Module Coordinator

• ED20820 - Making Sense of the Curriculum
• ED14520 - Children's Development and Learning
• ED13620 - Key Skills for University

Coordinator

• ED14520 - Children's Development and Learning
• ED20820 - Making Sense of the Curriculum
• ED13620 - Key Skills for University

Tutor

• MP11010 - Further Algebra and Calculus

Lecturer

• ED13720 - Play Matters: Understanding and Supporting Learning and Play
• ED33640 - Major dissertation

Moderator

• ED34820 - Emotional and Social Development
• ED14320 - Language Development in the Early Years
• ED24320 - Safeguarding and Professional Practice
• ED20120 - Psychology of Learning and Thinking
• ED20320 - Research Methods
• ED30120 - Assessment and Education

I teach a range of UG and MA modules, and undertake moderator and marker duties on a variety of provisions both UG and PGT as outlined below.

Modules taught on UG provision:

• ED13620 - Key Skills for University
• ED13720 - Play and Learning: Theory and Practice
• ED14520 - Children's Development and Learning
• ED20820 - Making Sense of the Curriculum
• ED24320 - Safeguarding and Professional Practice
• ED30320 - Mathematical Development in the Early Years (as seminar leader)
• ED33640 - Major dissertation

Marker and moderator:

• ED20620 - Working with Children
• ED30620 - Children's Rights
• ED20120 - Psychology of Learning and Thinking
• ED20320 - Research Methods
• ED14320 - Language Development
• ED30120 - Assessment in Education
• ED20420 - Education, Diversity and Equality
• ED38420 - Emotional and Social Development
• ED29520/ED39620 - Learning Literacies (Coleg Cambria)

Modules taught on PGT provision:

• EDM2720 - Equity and Diversity
• EDM3820 - Responding to the effects of poverty and disadvantage in education
• EDM3320 - Advanced Research and Enquiry Skills (marker only)

My further research areas include Technology Enhanced Teaching and Learning, role of AI in HE teaching and learning, Autism Spectrum Disorder, play and play therapy, mental health in HE, and I am part of the Wales Collaborative for Learning Design (WCLD), exploring VR and 360-deg technology learning labs and AI in education, delivering professional learning to educators across Wales (early years to HE). My further research includes HE learning and teaching, andragogy, cyberbullying and online abuse, particularly in an HE context and personality traits including the Big Five and Dark Tetrad.

My responsibilities beyond teaching and research are as Year 1 tutor, personal tutor, PGR (PhD and DProf) and UG supervision, marketing lead, outreach and charity coordinator, and departmental peer guide coordinator.

• Wednesday 3pm-4pm