Pro-Vice Chancellor for Quality and Development at Manchester Metropolitan University.Penny initially worked in clinical practice in the NHS but has worked for most of her career in health professional education. At the University of Huddersfield she was responsible for a large multi disciplinary department where interprofessional education was a key strategic driver. This was supplemented by the provision of a wide ranging clinical service provided from within the University. In 2005 she joined MMU as the Associate Dean for the Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care with key responsibility for continuing professional development and academic enterprise.This involved close partnership working with a range of professionals across health and social care.
Within Manchester Metropolitan University Penny takes a strategic lead for employability and developed and implemented a Student Employability Strategy that is raising the profile for employability through a number of wide ranging initiatives including the embedding of employability within all undergraduate programmes through the Employability Curriculum Framework.Externally, Penny is active within the field of quality assurance working as an institutional reviewer for the QAA and is a registrant member of the Health Professions Council where she has been closely involved in the work to bring social workers into a new regulatory framework.In her current role Penny takes a strategic responsibility for the quality of the university’s programmes and is engaged in a number of initiatives that seek to drive improvement and enhancement in the student experience.
