Scholarship and action research

McLean McIntosh began his career in education in 2000 teaching mathematics at Falkirk College of Further and Higher Education. Over time his role evolved and he secured a permanent post as a lecturer in the Core Skills team.  On completion of his TQFE at Dundee University in 2008, McLean secured a secondment to the role of Acting Curriculum and Quality Leader for the Access to Higher Education programmes.  It was during this phase he developed an interest and indeed a passion for Quality in Education.

More recently, he’s completed an MA in Online and Distance Education with the Open University.  This has opened up a whole new chapter in McLean’s professional development because it has both helped him to ensure that his teaching during the pandemic has been based on sound pedagogical approaches and enabled him to network with an academic community and engage in scholarship activities in a way that has opened his eyes to networking, curating, sharing and being part of a worldwide academic community.

McLean’s future interests are in the area of communities of learning and how we go about rebuilding hybrid communities following the pandemic, and he hopes that this will become the focus of his research in his upcoming Doctorate of Education research degree.