Amanda Jane Corrigan

Amanda Corrigan is Principal Teaching Fellow in the School of Education. She joined the University of Strathclyde in 2005.  In June 2017 she was awarded Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

Amanda leads an undergraduate programme that was developed with the Omani Government to produce English teacher for Oman - BA (Hons) Education & TESOL. She has developed placement modules on this programme using asset-based approaches that allow international students to make a unique contribution to Glasgow schools. 

Much of Amanda's work focuses on working alongside marginalised communities to strengthen teacher education. She has hosted research projects with young people in prison, young people excluded from mainstream school, and with adults who had poor experiences of education, using the findings from each project to support teachers' learning. These projects are collaborative in nature, positioning the participants as experts in helping teachers to look at some of education's wicked problems from a new perspective.  Amanda is a founding member of the Strathclyde Hidden Voices Network. Running since 2020, the network aims to amplify the voices of families affected by imprisonment and has organised a wide range of conference events, professional development sessions and partnership projects with charities and third sector organisations.  

Amanda leads the Strathclyde Institute of Education's Engaged Scholarship Hub in the East End of Glasgow. This has created a space in which university staff and community members can work and learn together. Projects like Glasgow Street Games and Learning about the Lungs have allowed adults in the community to take on the role of teaching local children and promoting learning from within the community. In 2025-26 a Children's Learning Hub has been established to offer opportunities for local children to learn alongside the university within their own community outwith the confines of school. 

Amanda was Deputy Head of the School of Education with responsibility for taught courses from 2019 to 2022, leading over forty programmes with 3k students through the Covid pandemic. She was Associate Dean (Student Experience) in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences from 2015-18.  In 2017-18 Amanda was Director of Quality Assurance in the School of Education following on from her time as Director of Student Experience from 2015.