Portsmouth Business School

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Mrs Charlotte Gladstone-Millar - BA, FCA, CTA, ATII

I trained as a Chartered Accountant with PriceWaterhouse Coopers, later taking up the post as Group Financial Accountant and Company Secretary at the head office of a multinational company. This gave me extensive experience of the treasury function, managing cash deposits in various currencies, monthly financial reporting, and consolidated accounts.

On joining the University I soon combined my lecturing duties in Financial Accounting and Taxation with Course Management of the suite of undergraduate degrees. External work as a QAA Subject Reviewer for Business and Management gave me a detailed insight into the organisation and quality management of academic departments in other universities. For the past six years I have advised the University of Wales, and in particular Glyndŵr University, on quality assurance processes and represented the University on the Quality Committee of the Open College Network, SE Region. The external focus has been useful in my more recent role at the Business School as the Associate Dean (Academic). Drawing on my breadth of knowledge from across the sector I contribute to the development, and am responsible for the implementation, of the Business School’s strategy for curriculum development and quality assurance and enhancement. I also work with other Associate Deans to formulate the University’s quality management strategy.

My early research interests focussed on accounting pedagogy, but in recent years I have been working towards a Doctorate in Education and my research now focusses on higher education policy, the impact on academics of external quality reviews, and trust and quality assurance in higher education.

Forthcoming book chapter:

2012 - An Operational Research Technique for the Formulation of a Higher Education Institutional Strategy & Future Directions (Forthcoming), in Higher Education Management and Operational Research: Demonstrating New Practices and Metaphors, edited by  G. A. Bell, J. Warwick, P. Galbraith (eds.),pp xx–xx. © 2012 Sense Publishers. All rights reserved.

Funded Research:

HEA BMAF funding for a project to investigate the support provided to new lecturers in business schools (completed June 2009)

Recent Conference Papers:

“Corporate Statistical Information for Course Monitoring” with Ann Irving and Martin Read at the Institutional Research Conference, Dublin, June 2010

 “Higher Education Policy and Standards of University Awards: an example of tensions in principal-agent relationships” at the Society for Research in Higher Education Annual Conference, Cardiff, December 2009

“Double, Joint and Dual Awards: The Continuing QA Challenge” with Ann Irving and Martin Read at the Society for Research in Higher Education Conference, Liverpool, December 2008