Kristen Schuster (they/them) | Lecturer in Digital Humanities | University of Southampton

Teaching

TEACHING STATEMENT


As a lecturer, my goal is to foster cutting edge technical practices that promote engagement with research across the humanities and social sciences. My experiences developing practice-based modules and managing creative forms of assessment has afforded me with skills and insights into good practices for collaborative teaching and research led teaching.

At both undergraduate and post graduate levels, I teach modules on metadata, knowledge representation and critical debates in cultural heritage. A hands-on approach to understanding workflows, technologies and infrastructures affecting data management reflects my commitment to conceptualizing data science as a framework for critiquing understandings of knowledge, culture, and technology, and I am confident I can scaffold develop inclusive forms of curriculum that blend a broad range of information science and humanities subjects .

I have actively worked to summarize and share my pedagogical practices, my co-authored article Using Constructive Alignment to support Metaliteracy in International Classrooms was published in the Journal for Library and Information Science Education, and I have also I submitted a co-authored article titled Better Inter-Disciplinary Education through a Pedagogy of Translanguaging, which is under review for publication in the International Journal of Digital Humanities. Contributing to interdisciplinary curriculum grounded in philosophical inquiry would be an exciting opportunity to use my existing knowledge and skills to develop inclusive teaching practices that promote creative forms of critical thinking and explorations of logic as an iterative and collaborative negotiation of meaning.


CURRENT SUPERVISION & TEACHING 

Teaching:

University of Southampton