HARRY J. MACE

• Combined teaching and leadership roles to develop and implement innovative curriculums, enhancing student engagement and recruitment.
• Managed international partnerships and logistics for study abroad programmes, ensuring streamlined operations and successful student experiences.
• Acted as academic mentor for students, fostering a supportive learning environment and promoting well-being.

• Led a strategic review of research operations and institutional development across the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, introducing further EDI initiatives.

Strategic planning and insight:

• Delivered a comprehensive report on research culture, policies, and performance following an internal audit lasting six months.
• Designed long-term planning tools with government frameworks and future funding models (e.g., the Research Excellence Framework, which requires competitiveness for funding).
• Applied competitive intelligence techniques to benchmark against national and international peers.

Organisational development:

• Designed and launched a faculty-wide mentoring scheme, with EDI initiatives and planning, to drive career progression and skill development.
• Authored a university-wide policy on research time allocation, specifically Buy Out policy, later adopted beyond the Faculty.
• Ran horizon scans of HE trends and advised leadership and strategic working groups on positioning and resilience.

Stakeholder and change management:

• Regularly briefed executive leadership and external stakeholders.
• Facilitated workshops, strategy days, and implemented meetings across departments (restructuring ineffective committee groups).
• Collaborated with the British Council to build institutional and global partnerships, notably in Morocco.

• Delivered research-led teaching across ten colleges.
• Played a key role in academic mentoring, student wellbeing, and developing inclusive learning practices.

• Commissioned to develop accessible, curriculum-aligned historical resources for UK schools and visits based on government archives.