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• I led on student experience, learning and teaching across the University. • Swansea University was 12th in the UK for overall satisfaction for NSS in 2021, 21st in the UK for teaching and 18th in the UK for student voice. In 2019 we were Best University in Wales and runner up for Best University in the UK in the Times, Sunday Times Good University Guide.• I initiated and led a STEP4Excellence programme involving the whole university in a conversation around student engagement. I led on the University’s Employability Strategy, and I led a project on curriculum reform across the University refocusing our programmes on research led teaching, professional development, technology enhanced learning, student mobility and inclusivity.• I led on widening access and chaired the regional Reaching Wider Partnership. I worked closely with Swansea County and City, and major employers in the region and I developed a Civic Mission strategy.• I chaired the EDI committee of the University. Swansea achieved an Athena Swan Silver Award and consistently appears in the top 100 of the Stonewall Equality Index. I also led a project to raise the profile of conversations on race across the institution.• I have played an active role in the increase in student numbers at Swansea University, regularly leading one of the largest Clearing Campaigns in the UK. Swansea saw an increase of 16% in international applications from 2019/20 to 2020/21 despite the COVID crisis.• I have been active in a range strategic partnership and TNE development programmes.• For five years I had strategic oversight of the College of Arts and Humanities and the College of Law. I also had strategic responsibility for Social Science across all seven Colleges in the University and co-led on the successful reapplication of the ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership. • I was a key member of the senior management team that won the Times Higher Education Outstanding Leadership and Management Team award for 2016.

• I was Deputy to the Provost and Vice Principal and had responsibility for a number of areas relating to staffing and planning. • I prepared the University Employability Strategy winning £3.5million investment over five years. The strategy is still considered to be a sector leader and the model for a number of other Universities. Graduate employability figures rose from 74% in 09/10 to just over 83% in 13/14 making Birmingham one of the top five for graduate employability in the country. • I developed a strategy for student employment and a bespoke temping agency (Worklink) within the University for current students, working very closely with the Birmingham Guild of Students in the development of this agency. • I was the academic lead on an HEA RARE project on Valuing Teaching @ Birmingham exploring how we develop continuing professional development in learning and teaching for all academic staff across the University. The outcomes of this strategy included the establishment of a Teaching Academy within the University and the advertising for International Teaching Fellows alongside the Birmingham Research Fellows.• I was responsible for the University Communities Strategy.• I had responsibility for the University Single Equality Scheme. The role involved the development of strategy, implementation and oversight, including setting Codes of Conduct re Equality and Diversity for both staff and students. Birmingham moved from a position where equality and diversity was not on the agenda through to the designation of 2013/14 as a Year of Equality in Employment. Recruitment and the promotion of women and BME staff to senior professorial positions also increased over this period.• I developed an Africa Strategy for the University in association with the International Office.