Dr. Zeenat Soobedar de Villeneuve

Speech Title: Too Late to Help? Rethinking When Student Voice Enters Assessment Design

King's Foundation, King's College London

keynote Speaker

She is a Lecturer in Maths Education at

King’s Foundation, King’s College London, where she teaches Maths for

Business and Economics and leads curriculum and assessment design for a

new transnational maths and data analytics module. She holds a PhD in

Economics from the University of London and spent over a decade teaching

economics, econometrics, and quantitative methods across some of

London’s most international classrooms, at Queen Mary University of

London and Coventry University – an experience that convinced her most

“student voice” initiatives rarely let students see the difference their

voice made. She built the SHARP Assessment Cycle (Strategic, Holistic,

Adaptive, Reflective, Process), an original framework for real-time

student voice in assessment, to close that gap. This has now been

piloted across mathematics, economics, and national security studies

modules at King’s. Her research also centres on co-creative and

inclusive assessment design, student belonging, and the use of

generative AI in quantitative disciplines.