As Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic at the University of Buckingham, Harriet is responsible for providing leadership for the academic and research strategies of the university. She is a leading expert in innovative and effective support for Learning, Teaching and Student Experience. To ‘make a significant difference to students’ experience of higher education’, she provides the environment for positive institutional change, and works with academic and professional services staff and the student body in an evidence-based, inclusive and egalitarian way.   

After completing her Higher Education in France, culminating in a PhD from the University of Toulouse, and following a postdoc in Psycholinguistics, Harriet returned to the UK and undertook research in Higher Education at the University of Oxford. Post-Oxford, Harriet held positions at UCAS, the 1994 Group, and the universities of Bath, Bradford and Portsmouth.