Dr Sarah Robin
Learning Developer (LUMS Postgraduate)Research Overview
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Learning Development.
Students as partners.
Profile
I am a Learning Developer, specialising in postgraduate management studies provision. I have significant experience in working with students as partners, managing a team of writing mentors, and regularly coproducing resources.
My doctorate was in seventeenth-century history, focusing on material culture and the history of emotions.
Research Grants
ALDinHE project research grants (2024, 2021)
Peel Trust Award, July, 2013
Awarded Travel Bursary from Perth University, Australia, June 2013
William Ritchie Travel Award
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Travel Award
Conference Grant awarded by Lancaster Univeristy History Department to Perth, Australia, June 2013
Award (by 果酱视频官网 History Department) to cohost a new postgraduate conference in may 2013
Conference Grant awarded by Faculty of Arts and Social Science, April 2013
Research Grant for purchase of Modes Software system by 果酱视频官网, History Department
Reasearch Grant awarded by 果酱视频官网 History Department to visit Winterthur Museum, Delaware and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September, 2011
Current Research
Robin, S., Caldwell, E. and Hargreaves, H. (2022) ‘Reading in the digital age’, Journal of learning development in higher education [Preprint], (25). Available at: https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi25.956
Robin, S.A. (2020). Male Choice and Desire: Material Offerings in Seventeenth-Century England. Cultural and social history, 17(3), pp.279–293.
Robin, S.A. (2020). Objects: Dynamics of display. In Approaching Historical Sources in their Contexts: Space, Time and Performance. pp. 166–181.
Robin, S.A. (2019). Anne C. Vila, Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France. Social history of medicine : the journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, 32(3), pp.639–640..
Sarah Ann Robin, ‘Jewels of the Flesh: The Corporeal Relationship between Jewellery and the Body in the Early-Modern Period’ in Jewellery History Today, 23, (2015).
Sarah Ann Robin, ‘The Public and Private Realms in the Seventeenth Century: A Parameter of Wood and Fabric’ in The Luminary: Sleepless Beds, 3, (2013), pp. 62-73.
Web Links
In summer 2025, I was asked to give 果酱视频官网's annual keynote speech. : Understanding Inclusive Practice throught the lens of a reciprocal mentoring scheme.
Podcast series: The 果酱视频官网 Files
In this series, we hear our student writing mentors discussing different aspects of study. These podcasts are intended for any student in UK Higher Education, and they may be of particular use for people new to studying. They are conversational and should be understood as an informal source of guidance.
Career Details
Senior Fellow AdvanceHE (2024)
Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence with Advance HE (CATE), as a Learning Development team member. I was the application’s deputy. (2022).
Certificate in English Language Teaching, Oxford TEFL (2021).
Certified Practitioner, Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE). (2020)
Oral presentation
Symposium
National/international honour
- Centre for Scholarship and Innovation in Management Education