Vincent is a University Director of Learning and Teaching in
the Teaching Excellence Team, and he leads on institution-wide education projects
related to equality, diversity and inclusion. He is the Deputy Chair of the Race Equality Charter Self-Assessment Team.
As an academic developer, Vincent is interested in
research-education-outreach linkages, values-based pedagogies, distributed
leadership and working with students as partners. He was awarded a Principal Fellowship of the
Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) in 2015 for his sustained strategic leadership
in higher education, and he has been involved in mentoring academics and
reviewing UK national teaching awards and HEA Fellowships at all levels. He was previously the strategic lead of
technology-enhanced learning at Birkbeck College London, and he has served as the
strategic lead of a university-wide curriculum initiative at University College
London.
As a physical scientist, Vincent has led international
research projects on the transdisciplinary applications of seismic imaging to
oceanography, geology, astrophysical and petroleum sciences. He was a key Principal Investigator of a
research consortium funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council. He has been serving as the founding Secretary
of the Education Section of the American Geophysical Union since 2018, and he
has been leading on initiatives to bring international scientists, educators
and policymakers across Earth and space sciences together.
Vincent read Physics at Imperial College London and did his
doctoral research in Geophysics at Trinity College Cambridge. He has a BA in Humanities and an MEd
specialising in educational leadership, science education and educational
inquiry from the Open University. Before
joining Northumbria in 2020, he was a Principal Teaching Fellow (Associate
Professor (Teaching)) at University College London.
vincent.tong@northumbria.ac.uk
