Yvonne Hillier is Professor of Education in the Education Research Centre at the University of Brighton.

She is a founder member of the national Learning and Skills Research Network. Her teaching background covers working with children with learning difficulties, working with adult basic skills learners and tutors, training trainers. She has researched issues of teaching and learning in post-compulsory education including basic skills practice, national vocational qualifications, initial teacher training, and work based learning. She published three books in 2006, one on FE policy (All you ever wanted to know about FE Policy, Continuum, 2006), Adult Basic Skills – Changing Faces of Adult Literacy, Language and Numeracy: A Critical History with Mary Hamilton, (Trentham, 2006) and Adult Literacy, Numeracy and Language:  policy, practice and research (edited with Mary Hamilton and Lyn Tett) (Open University Press – McGraw Hill, 2006). She undertook an ESRC funded project with Professor Mary Hamilton, Lancaster University on the history of adult basic skills policy since 1970.  She has published a second edition of Reflective teaching for adult and further education with Continuum in 2005 along with Empowering Researchers in Further Education (Trentham Books) with Jill Jameson in 2003.


SRHE Committees:
Chair of the Governing Council
(All Committees)

George Gordon is the founding Director of the Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement at the University of Strathclyde and a former Dean of Arts and Social Sciences and Head of the Department of Geography.

Primary research interests
George's primary research interests are: higher education policy and development; developing researchers and managers; quality assurance and enhancement; staff and student wellbeing. Recent projects include Developing Researchers over the Career Lifecycle, Enhancing and Embedding the Development of Contract Research Staff and their Managers, Capacity Building for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and various Quality Enhancement projects for QAAHE (Scotland). He has contributed to initiatives and development programmes in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Hungary, Sweden, South Africa and the USA.

George has been Chairman of the Council of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and a former Vice-President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He was Academic Consultant to the Teaching Quality Enhancement Committee, chaired by Sir Ron Cooke, and worked on the business prospectus for the Higher Education Academy. He has been an evaluator for various projects funded by HEFCE and JISC.

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council (Immediate past Chair 2006 to 2009)
Chair of the Governance & Appointments Committee
Member of the Finance and Management Committee

Bruce Macfarlane is Professor of Higher Education and Head of Academic Development at the University of Portsmouth (UK). He has held previous academic positions at three UK universities and has worked as a researcher and teacher in Japan and Hong Kong.  He is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and a member of the editorial board of a number of higher education journals including Teaching in Higher Education and Higher Education Quarterly.

His research interests are in the ethics of academic practice and leadership and his single authored publications include Teaching with integrity: the ethics of higher education practice (RoutledgeFalmer, 2004), The Academic Citizen: the virtue of service in university life (Routledge, 2007) and Researching with integrity: the ethics of academic enquiry (Routledge, 2009). In previous work Bruce has written extensively about business and management education and the teaching of business ethics, in particular. He has also researched the management of dual-sector (FE-HE) institutions resulting in the publication of Challenging Boundaries: Managing the integration of post-secondary education (co-edited with Neil Garrod, Routledge, 2009). He is currently writing a book about intellectual leadership in higher education, to be published in 2011.

SRHE Committees:
Vice Chair and Member of the Governing Council
Chair of the Research & Development Committee (2010)
Member of the Governance & Appointments Committee
Member of the Finance & Management Committee
Past Chair of the SRHE Conference 2009 Challenging Higher Education: Knowledge, Policy and Practice.

David Palfreyman, MA MBA LLB, FRSA, Bursar and Fellow, New College, Oxford, has previously worked at the Universities of Liverpool and Warwick, and has written numerous articles on university management.

He has co-edited a book for the Open University Press entitled Higher Education Management: the key elements (1996), and other books include Oxford and the Decline of the Collegiate Tradition (2000) and The State of UK Higher Education (2001). Two further books: Higher Education and the Law and How to Manage a Merger or Avoid One were published in 1998; the second edition of the former is entitled Higher Education Law (2002, Jordans). David Palfreyman and David Warner are the General Editors for the fifteen-volume Open University Press-McGraw Hill series: Managing Universities and Colleges (within which they contribute a volume on Managing Crisis) – this Series is now being translated for publication in China. With Ted Tapper, in 2005 David has co-edited a book on the politics of access to higher education in major OECD countries (Understanding Mass Higher Education: Comparative Perspectives on Access). He has also edited a book on The Oxford Tutorial (2001 & 2008 – the second edition will be available as a Chinese translation from Peking University Press) and written The Economics of Higher Education (2004). His latest work is (with Dennis Farrington) The Law of Higher Education (Oxford University Press, 2006); and his next academic project is a comparative study of elite universities as the first of a dozen volumes in a new series on comparative international higher education (2008 onwards, Series Editors: Palfreyman/Tapper/Thomas, Taylor & Francis).

David is a (Joint) Director of the UUK Management Development Course for Higher Education Administrators. He is also a Member of the Editorial Board of the AUA’s journal Perspectives, and is the Joint Editor of the journal Education and the Law. He is a non-executive Director of OXIP (the Oxford Investment Partnership) that manages c£200m of funds, and a Trustee of the Bedford Charity.

With David Warner, David established OxCHEPS (The Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies), details of which can be seen at its web-site on http://oxcheps.new.ox.ac.uk. OxCHEPS offers a ‘HE Mediation Service’, ‘UCELNET’ as a legal awareness service for HEIs/FEIs, and an online ‘HE Law Updating Service’ for the HE Law text along with an online ‘HE Law Casebook’ linking to the HE Law textbook.

SRHE Comittees – Ex Officio
Member of the Membership Committee
Member of the Governing Council
Member of the Finance and Management Committee
Member of the R&D Committee

Jill Armstrong is Dean for Learning Development at York St Johns University. The Directorate for Learning Development covers a wide range of professional support and the various teams work in close collaboration with the Faculties to enhance the student learning experience.

Starting in a Research Assistant’s post at the University of Liverpool in the 1980s Jill went on to work at all three HEIs on Merseyside, teaching and researching in Sociology.  More recently she had the privilege of working with colleagues in Universities across the UK as a Senior Adviser for the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) Generic Centre, which later became part the Higher Education Academy.  Jill was invited back to Liverpool Hope University in 2005 after having led and won a CETL bid to run LearnHigher, the largest collaborative CETL involving 16 universities in England. She returned to York in 2008 to take up a senior leadership role at York St John University.

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council
Member of the Membership Committee
Networks’ Convenor
Member of the Finance and Management Committee
Member of the R&D Committee

Professor Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.  He has an international reputation as an authority on the conceptual basis and theory of higher education and the university, his work being quoted extensively around the world.  For nearly 30 years, his intellectual work has been identified, in particular, with one question: What is a University?

Professor Barnett joined the Institute of Education in 1990 from the former Council for National Academic Awards.  At the Institute, he has served, from 1994-2001, as Dean of Professional Development and, 2005 to 2008, Pro-Director, Longer Term Strategy.  Among other recent positions he has held have been those Chair of the Research Degrees Committee of the University of London, Chair of the Meeting of Professors, IOE, Chair of the Academic Advisory Council, American InterContinental University, London, and member of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Steering Group.

Professor Barnett's publications include:
The Idea of Higher Education (1990)
The Limits of Competence (1994)
Higher Education: A Critical Business (1997)
Realizing the University in an age of supercomplexity (2000)
Beyond All Reason: Living with the Ideology in the University (2003)
Engaging the Curriculum (with Kelly Coate) (2004)
A Will to Learn: Being a Student in an Age of Uncertainty (2007)

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council
Past Chair Governance & Appointments Committee (2007 to 2009)
Past Chair of SRHE (2004 to 2006)
Member of the Finance & Management Committee

Paul Blackmore joined King’s College London in November 2007 as Professor of Higher Education and Director of King's Learning Institute and is currently Deputy Vice-Principal (Education) at the College.  Before this he established and directed a Centre for Academic Practice at the University of Warwick from 1995 for over ten years before becoming Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at Coventry University.  Paul is co-convenor of the SRHE’s Academic Practice Network and is also co-convenor of the Standing Conference on Academic Practice.

Paul’s research is in the conceptualisation and exploration of professional expertise, including its social dimensions, particularly leadership roles in academic settings. He has published widely in the field. In 2003 he co-edited “Towards Strategic Staff Development”, exploring ways in which development in all its forms could be strategically effective. He has recently completed funded studies on interdisciplinary leadership, approaches to development in UK institutions and the professional learning of course and module leaders in Higher Education.

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council
Member of the Research & Development Committee

Richard Blackwell works for the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Currently he is undertaking a project on assurance issues, having just returned from a one year sabbatical career break. Previously he was head of learning and teaching and south east regional consultant at HEFCE.  These roles involved Board level representation, frequent dealings with vice chancellors, strategic project and policy development and acting as regional lead on knowledge transfer and exchange.

Before joining HEFCE, he worked for the Learning and Teaching Support Network (now part of the Higher Education Academy) and was director of staff development at University of Nottingham.  For 10 years he taught and researched human resource management in both pre and post 1992 universities.  He is a fellow of both the Higher Education Academy and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Richard has published widely on HE, focussing mainly on quality enhancement, including a co-edited book in the SRHE/OUP series. In 2007 he achieved a PhD by published works.

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council
Member of the Finance and Management Committee

Rebecca Bunting is Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Portsmouth.  She has responsibility for a number of areas with significant policy and research implications, including strategic and academic planning, internationalization, widening access, the skills and employability agenda and research degrees.

Rebecca holds a number of Director positions including the Higher Education Academy, where she is also a member of the Academic Council and the Audit Committee.  She is also a member of the Leadership Foundation’s advisory panel and the Higher Education Funding Council’s Widening Participation Strategic Advisory Board.

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council
Member of the Finance & Management Committee
Chair of the Membership Committee
Member of the Governance & Appointments Committee

Sue Clegg is Professor of Higher Educational Research and Heads the Centre for Research into Higher Education, and is Director of Research Students. The research centre is a pan-university centre that supports the work of colleagues in the disciplines and professions and acts as a focus for higher educational research. Her personal research includes close-to-practice research, often in collaboration with practitioners, and theoretical work for example in her work on the social and pedagogical significance of the gendering of information technology, her analyses of information technologies in learning and teaching, and her critique of the debate about the nature of ‘evidence-based’ practice. She has written about the importance of critical distance and work which scrutinises higher education as well as serving it. In her recent work she has taken seemingly mundane pedagogical practices, such as those involved in personal development planning, and explored how these are understood by staff and students and the ways in which they are reframed in policy discourse. She has also taken a critical look at institutional practices designed to improve teaching, analysing the rhetorical repertoire of learning and teaching strategies and exploring how these strategies are mediated in practice. She is Editor of Teaching in Higher Education and serves on theBoards of Studies in Higher Education and Higher Education Quarterly.

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council
Chair of the Publications Committee
Member of the Finance & Management Committee

Kelly Coate is a lecturer in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the National University of Ireland, Galway.  She co-ordinates the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and the Postgraduate Diploma/MA in Academic Practice. Kelly’s research interests are focused on changes within higher education systems, particularly around such issues as teaching and learning, policy, internationalization and gender. She previously worked at the Institute of Education, University of London, as a researcher and lecturer, where she taught on the MBA in Higher Education Management programme and on the research training programme in the doctoral school. She has published on a wide range of topics, including her research on the history of women’s studies, and on international student recruitment. In 2005 she co-authored (with Ronald Barnett) Engaging the Curriculum in Higher Education (Routledge) and in 2009 she contributed a chapter on curriculum to the Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education.  She is on the International Advisory Board of the journal Gender and Education and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Education Policy

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council (Jan 2010)

Vaneeta D’Andrea is currently an Associate of Global Higher Education Consulting.  Most recently she was Director of Academic Affairs and Operations and Professor of Higher Educational Development at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London (2005-2010).  She was formerly Director of the Educational Development Centre (EDC) and Professor of Higher Education Development at City University, London (2000-2005). She has held secondments as Co-Director of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund, National Coordination Team for the Higher Education Funding Council for England, as a Fellow of Kellogg College and Lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies at Oxford University (1998-1999), and as Assistant Director of Quality Enhancement at the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (1997-1998), the former Higher Education Quality Council. She has been a Dana Faculty Fellow while at Guilford College (USA) (1985-1987) and was a Fulbright Scholar in India (1990).  She has received numerous awards for her work as an educator, and was selected to be a Carnegie Scholar (2000). Her primary research and teaching interests include: scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), higher education policy, educational development, quality enhancement of teaching and learning, and issues of gender and ethnicity.  She has published widely on a range of higher education issues and is a consultant to universities and governments on her research and teaching interests in Africa, Central Asia, Europe, Middle East, and North America.

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council

Miriam E. David, AcSS, FRSA is Professor of Sociology of Education and Associate Director (Higher Education) of the ESRC’s Teaching & Learning Research Programme at the Institute of Education University of London. She has a world class reputation for her research on social diversity, gender and inequalities in education, including lifelong learning and higher education. She is chair of the Council of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS), a member of the ESRC’s Research Grants Board and the governing Council of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE).  She chaired the conference organising committee for the SRHE’s annual conference in 2007. She is co-editor (with Peter Glasner) of 21st Century Society a journal of the Academy of Social Sciences and an executive editor of British Journal of Sociology of Education. Her most recent publications include (with Pam Alldred) Get Real About Sex: the politics and practice of sex education (2007, London: McGraw Hill/Open University Press) (with Diane Reay and Stephen Ball) Degrees of Choice: Social class, race and gender in Higher Education  (2005, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books). A review essay on Equity and Diversity towards a sociology of higher education for the 21st century? British Journal of Sociology of Education vol 28, no 5 pp 675-690 and she has recently edited a special issue of Research Papers in Education based on the TLRP’s work on widening participation in Higher Education.

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council

Linda Evans was appointed to a readership at Leeds University’s School of Education in 2007. She has previously worked at the University of Warwick and before that had an earlier career as a primary school teacher. She is the convenor of the SRHE’s International Research and Researchers’ Network, set up in 2009. A former student of modern foreign languages, she is particularly interested in European issues in HE and is a member of the European Educational Research Association’s Higher Education Network. She enjoys European travel and still speaks fluent French and reasonably fluent German. A displaced Mancunian, she is a passionate, lifelong, Manchester United supporter.

Linda’s research interests lie in the broad field of working life in education contexts, and incorporate the compulsory education sector as well as HE. She is interested in academic practice, professionalism, professional development (including researcher development) and work-related attitudes, including morale, job satisfaction and motivation. Much of her recent work is theoretical, involving conceptual analyses and theoretical models, but she has undertaken several empirical studies. She is also a published qualitative research methodologist. She sits on the editorial board of the International Journal for Researcher Development.

Linda is the author of around 50 articles and five books including: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (1998); Teacher Morale, Job Satisfaction and Motivation (1998); and Reflective Practice in Educational Research: developing advanced skills (2002).

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council (Jan 2010)

Joëlle Fanghanel is Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Institute for Teaching, Innovation and Learning at Thames Valley University. She advises on academic matters across the university and leads a team of academic and administrative colleagues engaged in teaching enhancement and research. She is Convenor and Chair of the editorial board for the London Scholarship of Teaching and Learning International Conference and Vice President (Europe) of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL). Her research interests include academic roles and identities, pedagogies for the 21st century, HE policy and change management.

Recent publications include a chapter on teaching excellence, a chapter on socio-cultural approaches to teaching, learning and assessment, a chapter on departmental leadership and papers on professional development, disciplinary identities, and local interpretations of policy. A monograph on conceptions of teaching and learning based on her PhD has just been published. She is a reviewer for Studies in Higher Education, Higher Education Quarterly, Teaching in Higher Education and Perspectives in Education, and co-editor of the London Scholarship of Teaching and Learning International Conference Proceedings.

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council
Member of the Publications Committee.

Lesley Gourlay is a Research Fellow in the Learning Innovation Applied Research Group, Coventry University, where she is running a Leverhulme-funded research project  investigating the pedagogies and  practices surrounding the use of Immersive Virtual Worlds (such as Second Life) in UK higher education.

Her background is in Applied Linguistics, with her doctoral study focusing on emergent norms in adult language classroom discourse. She has worked at Edinburgh University, Edinburgh Napier University, and King's College London. Her more recent roles have been in Academic Development, and she continues to pursue her interest in the limits of criticality in the 'developer' role. Her research work focuses on aspects of meaning-making, textual practices, digital literacies  and multimodality in higher education. She also works in the area of boundaries, transitions , trajectories and 'liminal spaces' in the academy, looking at issues such has internationalisation, support staff, practitioner-lecturers and 'non-traditional' staff and students.

Recent publications include a critique of 'reflective portfolios' in PgCert courses (co-authored with Bruce MacFarlane), an examination of the limits of the 'communities of practice' model in higher education, and a chapter on uses of visual methodologies in higher education research.. She has played an active role in the SRHE Academic Practice Network, and is regularly invited to contribute seminars at various higher education research networks . She is a member of  the editorial board for Teaching in Higher Education, and also regularly reviews for Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education.

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council

Professor Sue Law is Director of Academic Practice at the Higher Education Academy (HEA), where she has strategic responsibility for the Academy’s work in relation to ‘Raising the status of teaching’, ‘Sharing effective practice’ and ‘Institutional strategy and change’. Specific areas of focus include:

• Professional Standards Framework (PSF), professional recognition, fellowship, and programme accreditation
• National Teaching Fellowships Scheme (individual awards and projects)
• Student Engagement
• Evidence-Informed Practice (including ‘Evidence-Net’ developments)
• Internationalisation
• Evaluation, research and survey work
• Utilising National Student Survey (NSS) outcomes for enhancement purposes
• Inclusion and Widening Participation
• ‘Change Academy’ and Institutional Partnerships
• Employee Learning and Employability

Before joining the Academy, Sue held various roles in universities, including that of Director of the Centre for Academic Practice (CAP) at the University of Warwick; Head of Research in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) at Coventry University;  and Professor of Education and Head of a large Education department at Nottingham Trent University.

Sue has also been a QAA Auditor and Subject Reviewer and, more recently, was a Specialist Adviser to MPs in the House of Commons Select Committee Inquiry into ‘Students and Universities’, which reported inJuly 2009. She is currently Chair of the national Staff Development Forum (SDF), which comprises 12 regional groupings.

She believes she has benefitted from having a ‘portfolio’ career in education. After teaching in schools and FE/Tertiary colleges as far apart as London, Glasgow, Manchester, Ayrshire and Staffordshire, she went on to work in six very different universities (Keele, Staffordshire, Liverpool, Nottingham Trent, Coventry and Warwick), and in roles which have ranged from part-time lecturing through to senior management.

Sue has co-written three books and numerous articles and her research interests, consultancy and publications have focused predominantly around continuing professional development (CPD) and educational leadership/management, with a particular emphasis on the ways in which effective leadership development can help to create and sustain productive learning environments – for both students and staff.

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council (January 2010)

William Locke is Principal Policy Analyst and Assistant Director of the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information (CHERI) at The Open University in the U.K. He is directing the U.K. part of the international study of the Changing Academic Profession which is investigating the nature and extent of the changes experienced by the academic profession in recent years in more than twenty countries.  William is co-editor, with Ulrich Teichler, of The Changing Conditions for Academic Work and Careers in Select Countries, and is currently co-editing a book on governance and management to be published by Springer in 2010.  He has published and co-written several journal articles on the academic profession, higher education policy, and institutional management; chapters on the impact of ranking systems on higher education institutions, the marketisation of U.K. higher education and the academic profession; and policy reports on league tables, graduates’ retrospective views of their courses, student engagement, excellence in teaching and learning, and the academic profession.

William has spoken at international conferences in Australia, China, Japan and North America and throughout Europe.  He is also a member of the SRHE Publications Committee, the U.S. Association for the Study of Higher Education’s Report Series Advisory Board, and the Association of University Administrators’ (AUA) Editorial Board of the journal Perspectives: policy and practice in higher education.  He is Academic Advisor to the AUA’s Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice (Higher Education Administration and Management).  William was Deputy Director, Policy Development at Universities UK until 2006.

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council (Jan 2010)
Member of the Publications Committee

Janice Malcolm is Senior Lecturer in the Academic Practice Team at the University of Kent. She came to Kent in 2004 after many years as a lecturer at the University of Leeds, and is also Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University.  Her principal research interest is in the construction and practice of academic, disciplinary and pedagogic identity in higher education. In addition to exploring teacher education processes, this work has also focused on academics' workplace learning, and on the impacts of systems of regulation and of disciplinary practices upon academic identity. Janice sits on the Governing Council of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) and is a member of the Editorial Board of Teaching in Higher Education. She teaches on the PGCHE and works on the development of academic practice with both new and experienced academics.

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council
Member of the Research & Development Committee

Malcolm Tight is Professor of Higher Education at Lancaster University, where he directs the Doctoral Programme in Educational Research. He previously worked at the University of Warwick, Birkbeck College and the Open University. He has been Editor of the leading international research journal, Studies in Higher Education, since 1999. His current research interests are in the development of higher education in the United Kingdom since 1945, and the state of higher education research in the UK and internationally.

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council (Jan 2010)
Publications Committee
Editor of Studies in Higher Education and Member of the Publications Committee

Denise Whitelock is a Senior Lecturer in Information Technology working in the field of new technologies for learning at the Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology. She has expertise in the use of interactive multimedia for teaching, computer supported collaborative learning, virtual reality systems for conceptual learning, electronic assessment and monitoring systems. She is also co-convenor of the Educational Dialogue Research Unit at the Open University and is interested in building electronic feedback systems. One of these is eMentor, which won an Open University Teaching Award for their innovative work on eMentor. This is an electronic system which provides tutors with feedback on the comments they have made on their students’ assignments and coursework. Her research has received international recognition since she currently holds a visiting Chair at the Autonoma University, Barcelona and an Honorary Research Fellowship at The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand.

SRHE Committees:
Member of the Governing Council