Meet the team

Lucy Krebs MA, BA (Hons), Norland Diploma - Deputy Head of Learning and Teaching and Student Engagement Manager

Lucy Krebs is Deputy Head of Learning and Teaching and Student Engagement Manager. She teaches on both the BA (Hons) and Norland diploma. As Student Engagement Manager, Lucy works with a team of Student Representatives to discuss feedback, potential changes to the course and/or student experience and to plan social and charity opportunities for students. She also oversees Widening Participation and the Anti-Discrimination Innovation Team, and the ‘Change Agents’ programme which provides students with the opportunity to suggest, implement and run new clubs or opportunities for their peers.

Lucy is involved with both the academic and practical elements of the course, using a variety of different teaching, and learning methods. Lucy trained at Norland and since then has worked as a private nanny, an early years practitioner at the Norland Nursery and worked with the Newly Qualified Nanny (NQN) team that involves preparing and supporting students in their first year of employment.

Lucy gained her BA (Hons) studying part-time with the Open University in 2016 and an MA in Integrated Working with Children and Families in the Early Years from Pen Green in 2021. Lucy has published research in student engagement, working with fathers, and presented papers on her theory – mutual-scaffolding – at the EECERA Online Conference 2021. She is currently undertaking a PhD with Anglia Ruskin university.