Mick Healey is a HE Consultant and Researcher and Emeritus Professor at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.  Until 2010 he was Director of the Centre for Active Learning, a nationally funded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Gloucestershire.  He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland and an Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University.  He was one of the first people in the UK to be awarded a National Teaching Fellowship and to be made a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  Mick is an experienced presenter.  Since 1995 he has given over 450 educational workshops, seminars and conference presentation in Australasia, Europe and North America.  He has written and edited around 150 papers, chapters, books and guides on various aspects of teaching and learning in higher education.  He is often asked to act as an advisor to projects, universities and national governments on aspects of teaching and learning in HE.  For example, he has advised the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, the Canadian Federal government, the Higher Education Authority for Ireland, the HE Academy and the League of European Research Universities on research-based teaching and learning.  He was a founding member of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and the first VP for Europe.