Experience

Regent College London

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director Of Academic Governance

  • Apr 2021 - Present

• Interim Director of Academic Governance and Quality Assurance

  • Oct 2020 - Apr 2021



General Optical Council

• United Kingdom
• Public Safety
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lay member of the Education Visitor Panel

  • Oct 2021 - Present



WRN Associates Limited

• Gloucestershire

• Director

  • Oct 2019 - Present



SUMS Consulting

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Consultant

  • Oct 2019 - Present



The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director of Colleges and Alternative Providers

  • Sep 2016 - Jul 2019

  Member of QAA Executive team, setting and implementing strategy across the business. Accountable for QAA's role as the Designated Quality Body in England on behalf of the Office for Students. Also responsible for degree-awarding powers scrutiny, licensing of Access to HE, reviews of private colleges for the Home Office and the delivery of contracts for the Teaching Excellence Framework and General Osteopathic Council. Budgetary responsibility approximately £1.5M pay and £2.5M non-pay costs.

• Director of Quality Assurance

  • Dec 2014 - Aug 2016

  Responsible for the successful delivery of QAA’s reviews of universities, colleges and alternative providers; advice to UK governments on applications for degree-awarding powers and university title; reviews of UK higher education delivered overseas; and investigations of concerns about standards and quality of UK higher education

• Deputy Director, Quality Assurance Group

  • Jun 2011 - Nov 2014

  Responsible for the operation of QAA’s principal review methods in universities and colleges in England.

• Assistant Director

  • Nov 2006 - May 2011

  Led approximately 20 audits of universities and colleges in England. Managed QAA’s contract to deliver statutory inspections on behalf of the General Osteopathic Council. Led the overseas audit of UK higher education delivered in Malaysia (2010). Managed QAA’s Concerns scheme. Devised and delivered training to reviewers in the UK and the Middle East.



Higher Education Funding Council for England

• United Kingdom
• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Policy Officer

  • Oct 2000 - Oct 2006

  Developed policy on research funding and funding for research students. Project managed the creation of the Leadership Foundation (now part of Advance HE). Developed HEFCE's first sustainable development support strategy. Secretary to the Better Regulation Review Group. Developed policy on research funding and funding for research students. Project managed the creation of the Leadership Foundation (now part of Advance HE). Developed HEFCE's first sustainable development support strategy. Secretary to the Better Regulation Review Group.