Claire Hughes

I am a part-time Postgraduate Research Student studying an MPhil in Higher Education in the Curriculum and Educational Development Team (CEDT); my research area is intrapreneurship and enterprise education.

To date my studies have included MA (Distinction) Business Studies, PG Cert (Distinction) Management Studies, BA (Hons) History and Sociology and the PRINCE2 Foundation Certificate. In addition, I have professional business and teaching accreditations as follows:

• Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy/Advance HE
• Fellow Chartered Manager of the Chartered Management Institute
• Chartered Management Business Educator of Chartered Associations of Business Schools

I have worked across operations/project/event management roles across a varied portfolio of business, including private and public sector, for market leaders such as Nike, Manchester United Football Club, Right Management, NHS/Council and Anglia Ruskin University. Currently, I work at Solent University as Course Leader in Business; alongside this I am also an Advisory Board Member of UNLOC, a social enterprise group, and Lead University Advisor to ENACTUS, a social enterprise SU society.

Professional Practice

Having worked in Higher Education for over 10 years I am passionate about developing learning environments that provide an excellent student experience and building students as business professionals and future leaders. I have taught across a full range of courses and subject areas including personal professional development, global challenges, leadership and management and enterprise and innovation amongst many others. I have taught across standard, non-standard, blended, work based learning and online platforms/pedagogies. I was also the inaugural Apprenticeship Programme Manager for the Chartered Management Degree apprenticeship, supporting and delivering to experienced professionals and entrepreneurs through the taught degree and apprenticeship elements.

In support of sharing pedagogic best practices I am one of the internal assessors for AFHEA, FHEA, SFHEA peer applications and the University’s Internal HEA/Advance HE Moderator and member of the Professional Recognition Committee too. To support wider pedagogic practices and curriculum enhancements, I am also an external at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, and University of Leeds; I have also been an external panel member at a wider variety of course validations both internally for Solent and at other UK HEIs, including reviewing their overseas provision.

Whilst my current MPhil research is on Intrapreneurship and enterprise education, I have a range of other research interests too, which have allowed publications of conference presentations, papers and chapters in books, which focus around providing an excellent student experience, apprenticeships, student support and enterprise education. I have also presented on these at national conferences and a range of teaching and learning events.

Current papers/book chapters include:

• Due to be published 2021 a chapter around the changing nature of student support in the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association’s book series around 'Pandemic Pedagogy - preparedness in uncertain times' published by Emerald Group Publishing.
• Lead author on book chapter on the ‘Journey of Higher Degree Apprenticeships’ to be published as an open access book published by Palgrave MacMillan. The book is titled Applied Pedagogies in Higher Education: Real World Learning and Innovation across the Curriculum. Published 2020.
• Claire Jennifer Hughes, Gillian Saieva, (2019) "Degree apprenticeships – an opportunity for all?", Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, https://doi.org/10.1108/HESWBL-10-2018-0113
• Paper Published January 2017 – Claire Hughes and Dr Helen Thomas (2017) “Collaborative provision quality assurance isn’t just red tape…” http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13603108.2016.1235623.