Dr Pauline Williams

Biography

The Academic Quality, Enhancement and Innovation (AQEI) have been in existence since February 2024 and Pauline and her team ensure the academic quality and standards of our courses, the curriculum and course enhancement including our understanding and use of learner analytics to inform our practice. The team support academic staff development, technology enhanced learning and teaching as well as supporting professional recognition for our staff through the Advance HE accredited Fellowship scheme.

Pauline took a non-traditional route through her education, gaining a Higher National Diploma in 1994 from the Welsh Institute of Rural Studies, a BSc in 1995 from Essex University and gained a MSc from the University of Wales in 1998. Working in Higher Education for many years starting as a lecturer, Pauline was Associate Dean (Quality, Teaching and Learning) for four years before pursuing her Doctorate in Education with the University of Bristol (2015).

Qualifications

• EdD, Direct Entrant Chinese Students in UK Higher Education: A Case Study of Student Expectations and Subsequent Experiences Throughout a Key Period of Transition, University of Bristol, 2015
• MSc: Equine Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1998
• BSc: Agriculture, Essex University, 1995
• HND: Equine Studies, Welsh Institute of Rural Studies, Aberystwyth, 1994

Accreditation

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)