We are thrilled to welcome Professor Stephanie Marshall as our new Senior Non-Resident Fellow in the Global Education and Innovation section.
Stephanie is the Vice-Principal (Education) at Queen Mary University of London and the former CEO of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in the United Kingdom – the main body for advancing higher education teaching qualifications and trainings in the UK and beyond. In addition, she is an appointed member of the Learning and Teaching Steering Committee of the European University Association and served as a member of the Advisory Board of the European Network on Teaching Excellence (E-NOTE). Stephanie brings an unparalleled wealth of experience and expertise in strategic management and leadership related to evidence-based approaches to advancing teaching excellence in higher education from a European and Global perspective. She has developed, and oversees, the delivery of Queen Mary’s Education Strategy. Queen Mary is a unique university, combining excellence in research and education with an unparalleled commitment to social mobility and engaging with its communities. It is ranked 14th in the world for the quality of its research, and no 1 in England for social mobility, and was the first university in the UK to receive the platinum watermark for public engagement. It has a long history of attracting students under-represented in research intensive universities: more than 93 per cent of UK students are from state schools; 72 per cent are BAME, and 46 per cent are first into higher education and 36 per cent from households where the annual taxable income is less than£35k. Queen Mary also has over 170 nationalities on its campuses. Such a diverse student population needs tailored support, and the development of that support has been led by Stephanie.
Before she joined Queen Mary, Stephanie was CEO of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), positioning the HEA as a global leader in teaching excellence. She has led HEA’s transformation from a government-funded organisation to a highly successful, sustainable organisation with extensive global reach and membership spanning 45 countries worldwide, advised the German and Norwegian governments on teaching excellence initiatives and as a member of the group working upEngland’s Framework to assessing Teaching Excellence - the TEF.
Stephanie Marshall will reinforce GGI’s growing policy initiatives, research and training activities in the realm of European and Global Approaches to Higher Education Teaching Excellence, including the advancement of comprehensive training frameworks for strategic leadership for agile, innovative and impactful teaching approaches in a context of rapid change and transformation.
Upon her appointment with GGI, Professor Marshall commented “I am absolutely delighted to join the Global Governance Institute’s Global Education and Innovation section as a Senior Fellow at a crucial moment of transformation of many higher education systems inside and outside of Europe. I am looking forward to cooperating on a variety of transnational initiatives on teaching excellence. I have very much enjoyed the work with the European Network onTeaching Excellence during the last three years and I am excited to now further build on its success in order to advance impactful and truly international approaches to reinforcing teaching excellence. Many thanks for the very warm welcome at GGI!”
Silviu Piros, Managing Director of the Global Governance Institute: “We are extremely excited to welcome Professor Stephanie Marshall as a Senior Fellow at GGI and to work with her on a wide range of initiatives in our Global Education and Innovation section and the further institutionalisation of the European Network on Teaching Excellence. Stephanie brings unmatched experience, insights and ideas to the Institute and we look forward to working with her on some of the most pressing challenges related to higher education from a European and global perspective!”.
For additional information on Professor Marshall, see her profile page.
Read Professor Marshall’s GGI Briefing Commentary on “The On-Going Quest for Teaching Excellence"
References
[2] Sutton Trust/Institute of Fiscal Studies 2021
[3] Awarded by National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement
Photo courtesy of the Queen Mary University of London
