Miss Tracey de Beer

My role as Senior Manager Teaching & Students (Policy, Planning & Governance) in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences supports the portfolio of the Associate Dean, Student Success and.Scholarship.  The work aims to enhanced the way we teach and the student experience.  I work on a diverse range of projects, for example bringing insights from my former role as the faculty's senior manager responsible for research post award and postgraduate research students, I worked with the FASS Associate Dean, Teaching & Students, DIrectors of Teaching and others to develop the faculty's framework for ethical research for taught postgraduate and undergraduate modules, and continue the work to ensure that it remains fit-for-purpose.  I also worked with the Faculty's Deputy Associate Dean Teaching and Students, and Sharon Xuereb to development of a programme of student support sessions to improve student learning around academic conduct issues and academic training related to teaching in 2023/24.

I work with employability leads and others in the employability space to strategically enhance and develop the faculty's engagement with the university's employabilty strategy.   This includes oversight of the faculty's mapping of modules both in presentation and in production against the OU's employability framework, leading the work of the employability working group around developing KPIs and promoting the use of FutureYOU.  I am currently working with colleagues on student retention, tuition and assessment reform, large modules, and 'future of ...'.  I hold the faculty's register of external examiners and am the faculty's QME data champion, supporting colleagues in the faculty through the QME process.​