Professor Harriet Dunbar-Morris

Lifelong Learning Visiting Fellow, Hilary term and Trinity term 2026

Biography and research

Professor Harriet Dunbar-Morris is Provost and Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic and Professor of Higher Education, at the University of Buckingham. She provides strategic leadership for learning, teaching and research and is widely recognised for her work on student experience, student–staff partnership and evidence-informed educational change. Among other cross-institutional initiatives, she is currently overseeing work on her institution’s approach to the Lifelong Learning Entitlement, exploring its implications for curriculum design, pedagogy and flexible provision.

Harriet’s research and practice focus on learning and teaching, assessment, student belonging and institutional approaches to enhancing student success. She has led major cross-institutional and sector-wide initiatives, published extensively in higher education pedagogy and leadership and is a Principal Fellow and National Teaching Fellow of AdvanceHE.

Earlier in her academic career, Harriet was a researcher at the University of Oxford, where she worked on funded projects examining assessment, student learning and the student experience and taught on postgraduate programmes in learning and teaching in higher education. She has since held senior roles at UCAS, the 1994 Group, and the universities of Bath, Bradford and Portsmouth.

Working with Oxford Lifelong Learning

As a Visiting Fellow, Harriet looks forward to contributing to Oxford’s academic life through research, lectures and scholarly exchange. She plans to engage with colleagues to shape collaborative activity that reflects shared interests in lifelong learning and educational practice.