Adam Bancroft
- Senior Lecturer in Paramedic Science
- BG-506,
Biography
My eclectic professional experience has informed my educational practice in unique and innovative ways. My enthusiasm to teach others was initiated from my experience as a seasonal multi-activity instructor at PGL Adventure (1994-1995). Engaging children in outdoor pursuits across national parks in Wales and Scotland, innovating fun educational practice, whilst championing experimental learning methods. This complimented my overseas adventures in New Zealand & Australasia, through their beautiful nature classrooms in various outdoor education roles. My overseas travel cumulated at the celebration of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, managing hundreds of local and international catering staff, across key venues.
Returning to London, I focused my professional journey and start my healthcare career with the London Ambulance Service, based in central London (2002). I vocationally progressed to Paramedic registration, with the wide role incorporating clinical response, placement education and mentorship of the future workforce... New additions to my family prompted relocation to rural Hampshire and South Central Ambulance Service. Starting a new chapter embracing change, promotion opportunity and complimentary CPD, sparking an interest in Emergency Preparedness, Resilience, and Response. This catalyst saw a return to academia after a 20 year hiatus, completing a Diploma in Health Emergency Planning (2014). That influential cohort of my peers inspired an enrolment into an MSc in Emergency Planning & Management at Coventry University. This undertaking spiralled my professional, communication, and education experiences, establishing foundations for professional change.
A chance meeting with fellow RNLI volunteer crew in the changing rooms of Tower Lifeboat station, started my pathway to an Accidental Academic. Since joining BU (2016) I have embraced opportunities to innovate my educational practice. During my PGCert Educational Practice I expanded my professional network creating multiple collaborations. Continuing my passion for novel educational methods and technologies and how they complement my work and the student experience. The pandemic accelerated change in all our lives, including my educational practice. Facilitating our programme curriculum, outputs and expectations, tangential to project managing the build of our ambulance simulation suite, whilst appraising and evaluating virtual technologies, was really informative driver during this period. I continue to embrace change as a constructive disruptor working our collaborations in fused networks of educational practice across the region. I am a Senior Lecturer in Paramedic Science, and a PG student, Doctor of Education Creative Media.
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Attended BU Research Conference 2023: Embracing Failure, Building Success. Inspire Lecture Theatre, BU Fusion Building, Talbot Campus - 14th June 2023.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:
Good health and well-being
"Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages"
Quality education
"Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all"
Partnership for the Goals
"Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development"
