Middle East College, Institutional Quality Audit, Nov 2010
 
Prof. David Palfreyman
 

Prof. David Palfreyman teaches in University College at Zayed University, UAE, contributes to faculty and curriculum development for the university, and edits an online journal, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives http://lthe.zu.ac.ae. He holds a PhD in Language Studies and is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Before joining Zayed University, he worked with students and educators in Turkey and in the UK, as well as teaching in Italy and Spain. His current research interests include student learning styles, e-learning and the contributions of sociocultural context to university learning. He has published several articles in the field of language and university education, and co-edited two collections, Learner Autonomy Across Cultures and Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education, both published by Palgrave Macmillan.


 
Dr Philip Westbury Cardew
 
Phil Cardew’s academic career began as a lecturer in medieval English and Icelandic literature, working at the universities of Leeds, Hull and Southampton before becoming Programme Director for the undergraduate programme at the University of Winchester. During this time, he also became extensively involved in quality assurance, both at faculty and institutional level and in work as an institutional auditor for the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA).Phil left Winchester to become Assistant Director in the Reviews Group of the QAA, returning to an institutional role in 2005. In 2006 he was appointed Pro Vice Chancellor at London South Bank University and moved from there to become Deputy Vice Chancellor at Leeds Beckett University in 2015, where his role encompasses leadership of quality and standards, as well as all student-facing services. He continues to undertake audit work for the QAA, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Australia) and the Hong Kong Council for the Validation and Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications, as well as acting in an advisory capacity for other universities and external agencies, both within the UK and internationally.