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Centre Manager - Jane Gawthrope

Current responsibilities

Jane was the Centre Manager. She was responsible for its operational management, including planning, commissioning, reporting, evaluation, personnel, marketing and financial control. She also led the Subject Centre's work in employability and enterprise and on education for sustainable development.  Jane was involved in most of the Centre's publications and edited the Subject Centre Report series. Jane is now working as the Arts Faculty Manager at Royal Holloway, University of London.

jane.gawthrope@rhul.ac.uk

Biography

Jane completed her first degree in Management Sciences at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1982. After completing her MA in Librarianship at Sheffield University in 1984, she pursued a career in university libraries, becoming Deputy Head of Library Services at Brunel University. She joined the English Subject Centre in 2001.

Jane has substantial experience of project management varying from library relocations and refurbishments to questionnaire and interview-based surveys.

Publications

Survey of the English Curriculum and Teaching in UK Higher Education, English Subject Centre Report Series no.8, Halcrow Group Limited with Jane Gawthrope and Philip Martin, English Subject Centre, 2003

The study of English and the careers of its graduates in Learning, Curriculum and Employability in Higher Education, Peter Knight and Mantz Yorke, RoutledgeFalmer, 2004

Here be Dragons? Enterprising Graduates in the Humanities, Karina Croucher, John Canning and Jane Gawthrope, Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, 2007

Survey of the English Curriculum and Teaching in UK Higher Education, English Subject Centre Report Series no. 19, Alexandra Cronberg and Jane Gawthrope, January 2010

Professional achievements

BSc (Hons) 1st Class, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 1982
MA Librarianship, Sheffield University, 1984
Associate of the Library Association, 1986

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy