Dr Peter Fossey
Dr. Peter Fossey
Associate Professor (teaching focussed), SFHEA
Programme Lead: APP TELink opens in a new window
Pete is an Associate Professor in the Academic Development Centre (ADC), in Senate House. He has been an Academic Developer since 2018, and is a Programme Lead on APP TE. He earned his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick in 2015.
Contact
Email: p.j.fossey@warwick.ac.uk
External tel: 024765 73568
Internal ext: 73568
Academic Development Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 8UW |
Pete completed his BA (2006-09), MA (2009-10) and PhD (2010-15) in the Philosophy department, at the University of Warwick. After his PhD, he moved to St Mary's University, Twickenham, where he was Lecturer in Philosophy for a year, before taking up a permanent post as Senior Lecturer, and secondment as Programme Director for Philosophy and Politics. In the following two years at St Mary's, he was lead proposer on a suite of three undergraduate degree programmes in politics which were successfully validated in May 2018; contributed to development of two postgraduate degrees, and collaborated with colleagues to design new interdisciplinary philosophy modules.
Pete returned to the University of Warwick in October 2018 as an Academic Developer with the ADC, and became a Senior Academic Developer in 2019, and Associate Professor in 2023. He is co-lead on the APP TE programme Link opens in a new windowfor staff new to Warwick; led the PGA in Curriculum Development for HE Link opens in a new windowin 2021-22 and 2022-23; and was a member of the CATE-award winning LDCU Link opens in a new windowteam. He is a mentor on the APP EXP programmeLink opens in a new window, and an assessor on all of ADC's Pathways to accreditation.
Interests
Pete's interests include curriculum design; academic integrity as an academic virtue and a design consideration; philosophical theories of teaching, learning and education; pedagogical reasoning, and affective/emotional dimensions of education from both staff and student perspectives. His PhD thesis Link opens in a new windowis on the relationship between wanting to do something and having a reason to do it, and his focus has subsequently broadened out to include philosophy of emotions and philosophy of education.