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, and contributed to development of two postgraduate degrees; as well as collaborating with colleagues to design new 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; is a member of the LDCU Link opens in a new windowteam; and contributes to CultivateLink opens in a new window. 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 development, especially underlying theories of curriculum design; academic integrity as an academic virtue and a design consideration; philosophical theories of teaching, learning and education; and affective/emotional dimensions of education from both staff and student perspectives. His PhD thesisLink 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, some issues in normative ethics and meta-ethics, and philosophy of education.