Howard Wickes
MA, BA
Principal Lecturer in History; Programme Director
Fellow of the CETL
Director of Student Employability, School of Arts & Social Sciences
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Contact details: School of Arts and Social Sciences Northumbria University Lipman Building, room 402A Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST phone: +44 (0) 191 227 4923 fax: +44 (0) 191 227 3696 howard.wickes@northumbria.ac.uk |
Biography
Howard’s teaching career at Northumbria University spans a period of more than 20 years. During that time he has been responsible for the design, delivery and assessment of a very broad range of individual modules and programmes. He has also occupied a variety of academic and School management roles. As a Fellow of the Northumbria Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), Howard is involved in the promotion and dissemination of good practice in ‘assessment for learning’. This has involved establishing links with other History CETLs nationwide and with the Higher Education Academy History, Classics and Archaeology Subject Centre. He is also currently leading a CETL funded project to compile a database of coursework as a learning resource for History and English undergraduates. Besides his, teaching and committee work and his CETL role, Howard’s chief responsibility at present is as Director of Student Employability across the School of Arts and Social Sciences. He regards making our students more employable - and helping them to secure higher quality employment - as an exciting challenge. It involves issues of curriculum development and of networking both inside and outside the University. There is of course much common ground between this project and the CETL agenda.
Qualifications
MA, Oxford University, 1986
BA (Modern History and Modern Languages), Oxford University, 1977
Teaching Interests
At undergraduate level, Howard teaches intellectual and cultural history on the History, and History-Joint degrees. He also contributes to historiography modules and to postgraduate teaching. Whilst his interests cover a broad chronological and geographical range, his specialism is early-modern (and particularly seventeenth century) English and European thought and culture. He is currently module tutor for the following modules:
HI0403 Culture and Civilisation in the Western Tradition (level 4)
HI0515 Medieval Thought and Culture (level 5)
HI0514 Early-Modern Thought and Culture (level 5)
HI0610 Intellectual Revolutions in the Seventeenth Century I (level 6)
HI0611 Intellectual Revolutions in the Seventeenth Century I (20 credits) (level 6)
Research Interests
Howard’s research interests are in intellectual and cultural history, especially the intellectual and cultural history of early-modern Europe; the history of natural philosophy, with a particular focus on 17th century France; the history of early-modern epistemology, metaphysics and logic. Howard has also taught these subjects extensively at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Although based in the History subject area, he has always tried to promote interdisciplinary work, teaching on the English degree and on joint programmes.
Research Students
Currently supervisor for a PhD project on Sir Isaac Newton and intellectual and religious networks in late-17th and early-18th centuries; part of the supervision team providing historical input into a project based in Sociology and Criminology.
Affiliations and Memberships
Member (formerly Newsletter Editor) of the British Society for the History of Philosophy
CETL Fellow
Publications
Howard's publications to date focus mainly on the work of Descartes. He is also a co-author of a Northumbria University ‘Red Guide’ on ‘Assessment for Learning’.
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