Nicola can support you with big picture, strategic thinking and has expertise in policy development and delivery, including in relation to the curriculum.
Having worked in both professional service and academic teams, Nicola understands the complexities and challenges associated with whole organisational change and can offer facilitation to support co-creation processes. She’s an experienced mentor with a commitment to active listening and building coalition across difference.
Sustainability has been the golden thread that connects Nicola’s career choices and each of these has required a pioneering and visionary approach as they have been newly established roles. Post PhD, Nicola worked for ten years in the field of sustainability and environmental management within the public sector. For the past 12 years, she has worked as an academic in a dual capacity – in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education with particular responsibility for developing postgraduate learning, teaching and research and in University’s award-winning sustainability development team with strategic responsibility for leading sustainability education and research.
How has Nicola recently supported organisations?
- Co-editor of the 2024 Routledge book ‘Good Education in a Fragile World: The Value of a Collaborative and Contextualised Approach to Sustainability in Higher Education.
- Academic Framework Review and curriculum co-design process (CCCU 2023-24)
- Developed the Paradox Model (Kemp & Scoffham, 2021) which formed the basis for the international Sustainability in Higher Education (SHE) conference I organised in 2020 and offers a framework for reflection and action in developing responses to sustainability within HE (EAUC conference, 2024)
- Co-lead for CCCU’s Advance HE Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) 2020.
Outside of work, Nicola can usually be found outdoors, in a woodland or at a beach with her family including her cockerpoo Lola.
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