Claire works in the intersection between teaching and learning and academic operations, helping Universities bring innovative curricula to the market and successfully deliver it to cohorts of students. She understands the complex system of academic resources required to deliver an excellent student learning and assessment experience: curriculum, academic staff, space and academic resources, student choice and time. She can summarise data to provide actionable insights and articulate complex multidimension resourcing challenges to provide clarity for senior managers.
Before joining SUMS in 2006, Claire was a semi-professional international cricketer for 4 years. Prior to that her graduate job was with Procter and Gamble as a Systems Analyst, then Manager, working with P&G Pharmaceuticals in Europe, supporting their in-country salesforces. Through her cricketing experiences and achievements, she has a practical understanding of high-performance environments and marginal gains theory. Through her systems background, she has a good understanding of data architectures, business requirements, process improvement and evidence-based decision making.
How has Claire recently supported universities?
- University of Southampton: reviewing the academic calendar
- University of Birmingham: reviewing the module credit framework
- Bournemouth University: bringing together sector good practice from a range of HEIs on different perspectives of curriculum transformation to inform an internal project leading to briefing papers on academic calendar, curriculum structure and complexity, delivery modes and models and portfolio size and shape.
- Higher Education Authority in Ireland (covering all publicly funded teaching HEIs in Ireland): large scale space utilisation survey
- Holistic reviews of timetabling and teaching space management at a range of UK and Irish HEIs.
Outside of work, Claire enjoys playing her violin with the Westmorland Symphony Orchestra and loves spending time outdoors, on foot, two-wheels or on the water. At home, she like cooking and reading.