Nominated By: Pamela Abbott

Family Names(s): Abbott

Office Telephone: +44 (0) 1224 273250

Office Fax: +44 (0) 1224 272552

Email: p.abbott@abdn.ac.uk

Nationality/Citizenship: British

Current Position: Honorary Professor

Current Employer: Retired

Fluent in Reading: English

Fluent in Writing: English

Fluent in Speaking: English

1. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: BSc Sociology,University of london,1970

2. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: PGCE (Secondary),University of London,1972

3. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: MSc Sociology with Politics,University of London,1975

4. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: PhD,CNAA ,1982

1. Brief Description: Memner of the Sociology Panel for the 2001 and 2008UK Research Assesment Exercises
On panel to review UK reseach degree programmes training provision

Institution/City/Country: Higher Education Funding Council for England

Date: 2001 - 2008

2. Brief Description: Vice Principal Academic Vice Rector Academic

Institution/City/Country: Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, Rwanda Kigali Institute iof Education Rwanda

Date: 2000 - 2006

3. Brief Description: Establishment of the National council for Higher education Rwanda . worked with sector to develop from 2005 - 2007 and moved to set up Council in 2007.
Trained reviwers for instituional accreditation, instituional audit and subject review. chaire 9 accreditation visits and 1 subject review.

Institution/City/Country: National Council for Higher Education, Rwanda

Date: 2005 - 2008

4. Brief Description: Consultancy on developing quality enhancement policies and strategies for higher education in small states. Rwanda as a case study

Institution/City/Country: UNESCO

Date: 2007

Professional Summary Description: Professor Pamela Abbot has worked in the higher education sector in the UK and Rwanda for over 30 years and has also been employed as a secondary school teacher and further education college lecturer. She is a Sociologist by training and was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2002. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has excellent interpersonal and communication skills. She can communicate effectively to a wide range of audiences orally and in writing, including governments and other stakeholders, external higher education agencies, colleagues and staff, students and parents, the general public and the media. She has extensive experience as a senior manager in higher education and as a researcher in communicating with this wide range of audiences

She has worked at all levels in higher education from lecturer to Vice Principal (Deputy Vice Chancellor) as well as being the Foundation Executive Director for the National Council for Higher Education in Rwanda. She is currently working as an honorary professor at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Amongst other activities she is advising on the setting up of a consultancy company and on developing a research ethics policy.

During her career she has had experience of all aspects of quality assurance and enhancement and the maintenance of standards from examining through programme validation, subject review, institutional audit, institutional accreditation and setting up a quality assurance agency. She was involved in the development and implementation of the Scottish Qualification Framework. She has expertise in the evaluation of research degree programmes and research as well as of taught programmes. Her experience comes from being a practitioner, a manger and an auditor. She continues to both teach in higher education and to be research active.

During her career she has been an external examiner for a number of universities for undergraduate and taught post graduate programmes and examined PhDs and Professional Doctorates. She is currently the external examiner for undergraduate and taught post-graduate education programmes at the University of Makerre, Uganda. She has been a subject reviewer for taught programmes in England and Wales and was a member of the special review panel set up to review research degree provision in the UK by the Higher education funding councils. She has been responsible for leading the preparations for external subject reviews and institutional audits in the UK. She was a member of the 2001 and 2008 Sociology Panels for the UK Research Assessment Exercise.

Other relevant experience includes leading the development and implementation of, Equal Opportunities Policies, Quality Enhancement Strategies, Learning Teaching and Assessment Strategies and Research Policies and Strategies. She has been responsible for academic planning at departmental, faculty and institutional levels. Her experience as a senior manager and board member has given her a good understanding of all aspects of running a higher education institution including corporate governance and human relations and risk management. She has developed and delivers training programmes for PhD supervisors and designed and led the development of instruments for evaluating the student academic experience.