Kate Bridgeman

Kate Bridgeman is a dedicated and innovative Educational Developer at the University of Hull, where she has worked for over a decade. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), she holds a Master of Arts in Education and a BA (Hons) in Electronic Business and eCommerce. Kate brings a strategic, evidence-informed, and friendly approach to enhancing learning, teaching, and assessment across disciplines.

She teaches Postgraduate Researchers and sessional staff through programmes such as Passport to University Teaching and Professional Practice in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, fostering reflective practice and transferable academic skills.

Kate is involved with institution-wide initiatives in inclusive education, authentic assessment, and student engagement. Her expertise spans curriculum design, academic development, and digital pedagogy. Contributing to national conversations, she has presented at Jisc, HEA and AHE conferences as well as working on a collaborative QAA-funded enhancement project on competence-based assessment frameworks, available at: https://competencebasededucation.hull.ac.uk/

More recently she has co authored a chapter in 'Creating a Framework for Developing Sessional Teachers in Higher Education available at: https://lnkd.in/ecciBvDQ https://lnkd.in/ecciBvDQ.

Lillie, C., Zaheerali, A. S., & Bridgeman, K. (2026). The importance of adopting a person-centred approach for sessional teachers who are experiencing ambiguity and uncertainty. In N. Sutherland & A. Standen (Eds.), Creating a Framework for Developing Sessional Teachers in Higher Education: A practical guide for education leaders (pp. 187–200). UCL Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.38720061.21