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Last updated 8th June 2026

Amanda Tinker is Academic Skills Manager and Associate in the University Strategic Teaching and Learning Team.  She leads on learning development within the university, contributing widely to undergraduate and postgraduate curricula and strategic initiatives.  She actively promotes a collaborative and inclusive approach to help students make sense of academic practices and achieve their potential in higher education.  Her research interests include developing student learning, visual arts pedagogy, digital archives, information retrieval and generative artificial intelligence. 

Having a background in both teaching and research, Amanda joined the University of Huddersfield as a Research Assistant in the Centre of Database Access Research, School of Computing and Engineering, gaining her PhD in 2006. As part of this project, the research team collaborated and were invited to present at both the British Library St Pancras and Boston Spa. Whilst undertaking this research, she also worked part-time as a Senior Assistant Librarian, supporting the School of Arts and Humanities and teaching information literacy, moving into the area of learning development in 2002.

Amanda has a first-class honours degree in English Language and Linguistics from the University of York and, following this, she worked as a Graduate Trainee at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, which led to a MSc. in Library and Information Studies with Distinction from Loughborough University (1997). She was awarded the Department’s Student Prize and, later, a national prize (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) for her thesis on automatic abstracting.  She is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, member of the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education, the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  Amanda has also acted as an invited reviewer for an international online academic integrity course developed by Oxford University Press and latterly Sage Publications.