Yoshi Pakalkaite
Associate Lecturer (Academic Mentor)
Yoshi is an Associate Lecturer (Academic Mentor) on the BSc Digital and Technology Solutions Degree Apprenticeship programme and joined the team in August 2023. She graduated from Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design with a BA in Graphic Design specialising in Illustration in 2009. She was awarded an educational scholarship for her second year of undergraduate studies. She received my Master’s in Communication Design from Norwich University of the Arts in 2017. She received the honour of Innovation in Excellence in her master’s project. She also was awarded a three-year Falmouth Doctoral Studentship to work on Interface Design project in 2018. She is currently enrolled in her fifth year of PhD study and writing up her thesis at Falmouth University. She joined the University of Exeter in 2018. Since then, she worked on several projects such as Study Zone Digital, TWICEASGOOD and Expert Learner game. She developed and designed online learning content as well as supported colleagues and students to achieve their academic goals. Her design work has been documented, presented, and published on THE Campus blog as well as EduExe and EVA London conferences. Since 2021, she became an annual peer reviewer for the EVA London conference. In addition, she completed the Aurora Leadership programme in June 2023, which inspired her to co-found and co-chair the WISEnet women’s leadership network at the University of Exeter. Despite her work for the University of Exeter, she also taught creative advertising, design, marketing, and business as a Research Student Teaching Associate at Falmouth University. She also was a Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art where she regularly contributed to the Information Experience Design MA course. For her achievements for teaching in HE, she was awarded the Advance HE Fellowship in December 2021. Since then, she became an assessor for the fellowship applications for the LTHE and ASPIRE programmes at the University of Exeter.