Professor (Katherine) Leni Oglesby

Appointment: 1 December 2008 to 30 November 2011; 1 December 2011 to 30 November 2014

Professor Oglesby previously held academic and senior management posts at Leicester, Sheffield, Lancaster, Surrey and Manchester Metropolitan universities, and a secondment to the Policy Division of the Higher Education funding Council for England. She has wide experience of international, European, national and regional agencies, including the International Council for Adult Education, the European Bureau of Adult Education, the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning and the Society for Research in Higher Education.  Leni has been a member of HEFCE and QAA panels, variously concerned with the recognition of centres of excellence in teaching and learning, HE in FE, institutional degree awarding powers, and quality assurance and employer engagement provision.   She is a graduate of Cardiff University, and undertook postgraduate studies at Leicester University. She is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.   She is currently a member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s Strategic Advisory Committee on Widening Participation.