Tanya Ovenden-Hope

Professor (Dr) Tanya Ovenden-Hope is Provost and Professor of Education at Plymouth Marjon University and Marjon University Cornwall, UK. Tanya is a committed and enthusiastic educationalist with over three decades experience in schools, colleges and universities in England as a teacher, teacher educator, educational leader and educational researcher. She is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Society of Education and Training, Fellow of the Chartered College of...See more

Professor (Dr) Tanya Ovenden-Hope is Provost and Professor of Education at Plymouth Marjon University and Marjon University Cornwall, UK. Tanya is a committed and enthusiastic educationalist with over three decades experience in schools, colleges and universities in England as a teacher, teacher educator, educational leader and educational researcher. She is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Society of Education and Training, Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and was awarded the National Enterprise Educator Award in 2014. Tanya values the importance of collaboration and has elected, invited and voluntary roles that enable her to share research and support evidence informed practice. She is a Council Member of the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET); Board Member of the International Council for the Education of Teachers (ICET); a Special Interest Group (SIG) Convenor and Council Member of the British Educational Research Association (BERA), an invited member of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Advisory Board for the Teacher Development Fund and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Teaching Profession SIG on Teacher Supply. She is also a Trustee for a number of Education Trusts. The author of over 75 papers, reports, articles and books, Tanya is dedicated to exploring social inequity and educational disparity and has spent the last ten years focusing on the challenges for coastal, rural and small schools, including issues of teacher recruitment and retention and access to funding and professional development. Tanya has used the findings of this research to inform interventions for early career teacher retention and effective mentoring in schools and colleges. Projects she has developed and led include the Education Endowment Funded RETAIN programme and the Education and Training funded Pedagogical Mentoring Programme. Tanya is co-editor of the recent book, Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention: Contextual Challenges from International Perspectives. See less