Claire is the university’s pro vice chancellor for growth and development. She has responsibility for oversight of the university's growth agenda including ensuring that the university's portfolio responds to and is integrated into regional and national need. Claire's portfolio also includes collaborative provision partnerships (including transnational education), international student recruitment and leading on the university's international college development.
Claire has worked in higher education for over thirty years, first as a lecturer and senior lecturer in law, running Law and Business Studies pathways at Bolton Institute of Higher Education and teaching at the Open University. Latterly, she was Dean of the Off Campus Division at the University of Bolton, managing the university's partnership operations, and Head of Academic Partnerships at Ravensbourne University, London. Claire also worked for 13 years as a communications consultant, specialising in new media for the public sector; a diversity of clients leading to expertise in the operation of public sector organisations in the northwest.
With a degree in Law from the University of Cambridge and a Master's in Development Education and Global Learning from UCL, Claire has an academic interest in Global Learning and sustainability, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and acts as co-chair of the university's Athena Swan initiative. Claire is also on the Board of Carlisle College.
