Academic Enhancement, Research & Regional Engagement

This service area, led by the Pro Vice Chancellor Professor Diana Burton, comprises the Academic Enhancement Unit, the Research Support Office, the Development Funding Office, the Professors and Readers Conferment function and the LJMU Scholarship Board.  The Liverpool Comino Centre also operates from the PVC office.

The Pro-Vice Chancellor is a member of the University’s senior strategic leadership team along with the Vice-Chancellor, other PVCs and Deans. This group provides leadership and strategic direction to the University’s activities.

The departments within the ARR PVC area are responsible for:      

1. Supporting faculties to provide high quality student learning experiences with a focus on continuous improvement and sharing of best practice, for instance, in technology enhanced learning methods;
2. Ensuring that all programmes operate within internal quality assurance and academic framework regulations and are consistent with relevant regulatory frameworks such as the QAA’s codes of practice;
3. Supporting institutional research development, faculty research endeavour and postgraduate research programmes;
4. Leading and monitoring the conferment of professorships and readerships;
5. Leading the regular review  of professorial pay enhancement;
6. Interfacing with city and regional policy development groups focused on the knowledge economy;
7. Supporting faculties and departments to secure income from a range of European, international and national sources for a variety of projects developed within the university. 

The PVC and colleagues within the departments work closely with the Liverpool Students’ Union to ensure that common goals are met through a productive partnership mode of working.

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