If you are looking for guidance or delivery in any of these areas, then please get in touch:

Strategy:

• Education strategy, particularly in relation to employability, skills and experiential learning
• Employability strategy
• Experiential Learning strategy
• Careers Education strategy
• Careers Service strategy

Shared Skills and Attributes language:

• Creation of a skills and attributes framework or taxonomy at institutional or subject level, and/or for extra-curricular purposes
• Consultancy on embedding and applying shared skills and attributes language across the institution, including in curriculum design

Learning design:

• Approaches to learning gain and measuring the impact of careers and employability education
• Creation of learning content
• Experiential learning, including in the Humanities
• Inclusive careers and employability education

Staff mentoring and development:

• Individual mentoring and career coaching for academic and professional services staff
• Career coaching for staff facing redundancy or taking voluntary severance
• Careers Service leadership team development
• Careers Service team training and development
• Guidance for Careers professionals on Senior and Principal HEA Fellowship submissions

Careers service reviews:

• Reviews of Careers service strategy, structure, resourcing and delivery

My experience and expertise includes:

• Former academic and published researcher in film musicology, Editor of series of film musicology books
• Qualified in teaching and learning in higher education (1999)
• Qualified in digital education (2021)
• Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2020)
• Peer-reviewed research and wider publication on employability, skills and curriculum
• Senior professional services leader and manager: ran two UK university careers services (Chester, King’s College London) and led a federation of university careers services (The Careers Group)
• Reviewed UK university careers services against the national professional Quality Standard (AGCAS – 2020-2024)
• Review international university careers services
• Advise on education, careers and employability strategy for UK and international universities in Europe, the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand
• Create skills taxonomies for UK universities
• Advisory Board Member for Practera, the virtual experiential learning provider
• Qualified Careers Professional (Level 6, 2015) and Registered Career Development Professional with the Career Development Institute
• 10 years of management experience
• Over 20 years of mentoring and careers guidance experience, including of senior academic and professional services staff