Majan University College, Institutional Quality Audit, Feb 2009
 
Prof. Joelle Fanghanel
 
Joëlle Fanghanel is Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Institute for Teaching, Innovation and Learning at the University of West London. She has been leading academic development centres for over 10 years, at the University of Leicester between 2001 and 2003, at City University London between 2003 and 2009, and now at the University of West London. Her research is focused on academic identities and disciplinary cultures; academic work; and education for a globalised world. She has held leading positions in national and international organisations including as Convenor of the London SoTL International Conference and Chair of the editorial board for the London Scholarship of Teaching and Learning International Conference. She is a former Vice President (Europe) of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), and a current re-elected Member and Trustee of the SRHE Governing Council. She is also a member of SRHE Publications Committee, and Co-Convenor of the Academic Practice Network. She was selected as National Teaching Fellow in 2011. She is an active reviewer for Studies in Higher Education, Higher Education Quarterly, Teaching in Higher Education and Perspectives in Education, and co-editor of the London Scholarship of Teaching and Learning International Conference Proceedings.   Recent publications include a chapter on teaching excellence, a chapter on socio-cultural approaches to teaching, learning and assessment, a chapter on departmental leadership and publications on professional development, disciplinary identities, and local interpretations of policy. A monograph on conceptions of teaching and learning based on her PhD was published in 2009. Her recent book Being an Academic examines the impact of higher education policies on academic practices (Routledge, 2012). 

 
Professor Mairead Browne
 
After an early career in Ireland at University College Dublin, Emeritus Professor Mairéad Browne held positions at University of Sydney, Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education and University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). She was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS from 1991-1996 and Dean of the University Graduate School from 1997 until commencing as a freelance consultant in 2001.   Other appointments in quality assurance have included chairing and membership of audit/review panels as well as provision of training and consultancy services for: Australian Universities Quality Agency;  Higher Education Review Unit, Bahrain;  National Council for Academic Accreditation and Assessment, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia;  Oman Accreditation Council; and  Irish Universities Quality Board.   Mairéad has also assisted individual universities with projects and development of their quality assurance arrangement, for example: Flinders University; University of Technology, Sydney; Queensland University; and Witwatersrand University (South Africa).   Other appointments in quality assurance include editor for the 2009 suite of modules in the Graduate Qualification in Quality Assurance sponsored by the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education and delivered by University of Melbourne and New York University.   Earlier appointments include Senior Consultant for the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (now Australian Learning and Teaching Council), 2007-2008; member of the Australian Research Council Appeals Committee 2005-2007; Member of the Council of the National Library of Australia 1992-98, President of the Australian Library and Information Association 2000-2001 and Convenor for 2000 of the Deans and Directors of Graduate Schools.  Awards include Fellow of the Australian Library and Information Association and Emeritus Professor of University of Technology, Sydney. 
 
Dr Rahul Arora
 
Dr Rahul Arora is Dean of Oman Dental College in Muscat and was appointed in 2006 when the College was formed.  He came to the Sultanate of Oman in 1994 and also works as a dentist with a special interest in Endodontics on a part-time basis. Dr Arora graduated with a BDS degree from The Royal London Hospital, University of London and gained his LDS from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He subsequently completed an MSc degree in Endodontics as the first indigenous student to graduate from the pioneering programme at the Institute of Dental Surgery, Eastman Dental Hospital, University of London.  Following this he joined a referral practice in Harley Street, London whilst continuing as a research assistant at the Institute of Dental Surgery.  Dr Arora was awarded the MFGDP and subsequently the FFGDP from the Royal College of Surgeons of England and .   is a Founder Fellow of the College of General Dentistry, UK. He is registered with the UK General Dental Council as a Specialist in Endodontics. Dr Arora was Chairman of the British Dental Association Metropolitan Branch Study Circle and lectured as an invited speaker for the British Postgraduate Medical and Dental Federation.  He is a past member of the international faculty at the joint faculties of Manipal & Bapuji Medical and Dental Schools in India where he is was involved with endodontic teaching to postgraduates preparing for the UK General Dental Council International Qualifying Examination. Dr Arora has been invited to speak and conduct hands-on courses in endodontics in the UK, India and the Sultanate of Oman and is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate dental education and continuing professional development.  He has authored endodontic articles, presented papers and held workshops at several international conferences. Dr Arora currently has served for a number of years as a board member of the American British Academy school in Muscat, an IB World School, where he was also involved with quality assurance and accreditation.