Tunde Varga-Atkins

Tunde Varga-Atkins (alternative spelling: Tünde Varga-Atkins), SFHEA, is a Senior Educational Developer at the Centre for Innovation in Education at the University of Liverpool. She specializes in digital education and the scholarship of learning and teaching with technologies.
Education
Varga-Atkins received her PhD from Lancaster University in e-Research and Technology-Enhanced Learning in 2019. Her thesis was titled Designing curricula to develop digitally capable professionals in engineering and management: the case in two universities.
Career and research
Varga-Atkins worked as a Learning Technologist at the University of Liverpool since 2007 and was appointed Senior Educational Developer at the Centre for Innovation in Education in 2018. Tunde was Chair of ALT ELESIG, a special interest group (Evaluation of Learners' Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group) between 2018-2020 and has been the regional NorthWest co-lead since 2014 of the Group. She is also one of the editors of Research in Learning Technology and associate editor of the Developing Academic Practice journals.
Publications (selected)
She has published on digital capabilities, educational technology, curriculum design and development, focus groups, nominal group technique, multimodal research methods including drawings and diagrams in higher education and professional learning:

* Varga-Atkins, T. (2020) Beyond description: in search of disciplinary digital capabilities through signature pedagogies. Research in Learning Technology, 28: 2467 - http://dx.doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v28.2467
* Turner, J., Mason, A., Varga-Atkins, T, & Harrison, R. (2020) “Culture Club”: Experiences of running a journal club for continuing professional development in higher education. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 8(2), 81-89. https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v8i2.404
* Voelkel, S., Varga-Atkins, T., & Mello, L. V. (2020). Students tell us what good written feedback looks like. FEBS Open Bio, 1-15. Published online March 2020.
* Voelkel, S., Mello, L. V., & Varga-Atkins, T. (2018). Supporting students during their undergraduate research projects using audio recordings. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 55(4) 433-440.
* Varga-Atkins, T., McIsaac, J., & Willis, I. (2017). Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 54(1) 289-300.
* Varga-Atkins, T. (2016). A study of the role of a technology-enhanced learning implementation group in mediating an institutional VLE minimum standards policy. Research in Learning Technology, 24(1), 32815.
* Umoquit, M. J., Tso, P., O’Brien, M., & Varga-Atkins, T. (2013). The Qualitative Report. 18, article 60, pp1-12.
* Varga-Atkins, T., Dangerfield, P., & Brigden, D. (2010). Medical Teacher, 32(10), 824-829.
* Varga-Atkins T., O’Brien, M., Burton, D., Campbell, A. and Qualter, A. (2009) Journal of Educational Change, 11(3), 241-272.
* Varga-Atkins T, Qualter A and O’Brien M. (2009) Professional Development in Education. Vol. 35(3), Sep, 321-340.
* Varga-Atkins, T and O'Brien M. (2009) International Journal of Research and Method in Education, vol. 32(1), April, 53-67.
* Varga-Atkins, T; Ashcroft, L (2004) Information skills of undergraduate business students. Library Management, vol. 25(1), pp 39-55.

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