| ChairProfessor Sibrandes Poppema was born in the
Netherlands and studied Medicine at the University of Groningen. He
specialized in Pathology and defended his PhD thesis on the Immunopathology
of Hodgkin’s disease in 1979. He obtained postdoc positions at the University
of Kiel (Germany) and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
In 1985 he was appointed on the J.K. de Cock chair in Immunopathology at the
University of Groningen. From 1987 till 1995 he was Professor of Pathology at
the University of Alberta and Director of Laboratory Medicine at the Cross
Cancer Institute in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In 1995 he returned to Groningen to become the
chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. In 1999 he
was appointed dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of
Groningen. He introduced the problem based, competency-oriented curriculum
G2010 in 2003, forged the merger of Faculty and Academic Hospital into the
University Medical Center Groningen in 2005 and became vice-president of the
UMCG. In 2006 he started the Healthy Ageing focus with the flagship projects
LifeLines and ERIBA. In 2008 he was appointed president of the University of
Groningen and in 2014 re-appointed till 2018. Under his guidance the
university introduced the three focus areas Healthy Ageing, Energy &
Sustainability, and Sustainable Society, improved the study success rate of
the students by more than 20 percent and progressed into the top 100 in the
three major university rankings. Professor Poppema is an expert on Hodgkin’s disease
and published around 250 articles. He was awarded a Knighthood in the Order of the
Netherlands Lion for his scientific achievements in 2007. Professor
Poppema is a member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and
Innovation. In 2011 he received an
appointment as Honorary Consul General for the Republic of Korea in the
Northern Netherlands. Professor Poppema serves on a wide range of
committees and boards, such as the advisory board of the Institute for
Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin, the international scientific advisory board of
the Berlin Institute of Health, the executive board of the European Medical
School Oldenburg/Groningen, the supervisory board of the health care group
TREANT and the Council of Confucius Institute Headquarters.
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| Coordinating
Reviewer
Dr
Claire Carney is Associate Vice-Principal (Education) for the University of the
West of Scotland. As a member of the University leadership Team, she
contributes to the strategic leadership of the University and supports the
overall achievement of the Corporate Strategy with specific responsibility for
the Student Success Education Enabling Plan, UWS Academy, Education Futures and
Quality Enhancement. Prior to this, Dr Carney was Head of Quality
Enhancement and laterally Interim Director at the Quality Assurance Agency
Scotland where she was responsible for leading the design, development and quality of provision of the Quality Enhancement programme
of activities across
the Scottish Higher
Education sector. |
| Irish Representative
Professor Linda Hogan is an ethicist with extensive experience in research and teaching in pluralist and multi-religious contexts. Her primary research interests lie in the fields of inter-cultural and inter-religious ethics, human rights and gender. In 2015 she established the Trinity Ethics Initiative and is founder of Trinity EthicsLab. From 2011-15 she was Vice-Provost/Chief Academic Officer and as such had overall responsibility for education and research at the university, where she coordinated strategic planning, research, undergraduate and postgraduate education, quality and the student experience. Professor Hogan has lectured on a range of topics in ethics and religion, including Ethics in International Affairs; Ethics of Globalisation; Biomedical Ethics; and Comparative Social Ethics. She has held posts at Trinity College Dublin and at the University of Leeds, where she was a member of the Centre for Business Ethics. She has been a member of the Irish Council for Bioethics and a Board member of the Coombe Hospital, Science Gallery Dublin and the Marino Institute of Education. She is currently Chair of the Governing Body of Marino Institute of Education. She has also been appointed to the Editorial Boards of international journals including Feminist Theory; the Journal of Religious Ethics and the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics and Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal. She has worked on a consultancy basis for a number of national and international organisations, focusing on developing ethical infrastructures. Her most recent monograph is Keeping Faith With Human Rights, Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2016. |
| External RepresentativeKen Finnegan is CEO of Tangent, the innovation centre at Trinity College Dublin, since February 2019. Prior to this Mr Finnegan was the Chief Technology Advisor to IDA Ireland where he provided insight and advice in relation to research, development and innovation. He was the single point of contact for Research Centres, Third Level Institutions and Academia for the technology Multinational community in Ireland. Mr Finnegan was responsible for cluster development and developed national value propositions for A.I., Internet of Things, Data Analytics, Cyber-Security etc.
Mr Finnegan regularly contributes to a variety of business and industry journals, including Silicon Republic, Irish Tech News, and Dublin Globe and has Chaired the Smart City IoT World conference in Singapore and has presented about technology innovation around the world. He holds a degree in Information Technology and Telecommunication from The University of Limerick and a Master of Science from The Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin.
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| Learner
Representative Dr. Morgan Cawley Buckley is a MA student in
Higher Education at the Technological University of Dublin. He holds a PhD
from Magdalene College, Cambridge, a Masters degree from the Royal College of
Music, a Fellowship of Trinity College, London and a Bachelors degree from
the Dublin Institute of Technology. Dr. Cawley Buckley currently lectures on
Social, Political and Community Studies (SPCS) and Applied Social Studies
(Professional Social Care) Programmes at Carlow College, having taken up
previous posts at Newcastle University, the Royal College of Music, London
and the Mater Dei Institute of Education (now part of the DCU Institute of
Education). He played a small part in Programme Revalidation in his current
post and is a member of the SPCS Programme Board. |
| International
Representative Appointed director of
AEQES in 2008, Caty Duykaerts is responsible for designing and implementing
external evaluation procedures in Belgian French-speaking higher education
(universities, university colleges, art schools and conservatories, and adult
education centres). AEQES underwent external reviews in 2011 and 2016. Both
reviews contributed to the further development of the agency and granted it
ENQA membership. Committed to the field of quality assurance (ENQA Board
member and Vice-President, member of EURASHE Working Group on Quality, member
of the Steering Committee of the European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF),
co-founder of the French-speaking network of QA agencies), she was previously
a language teacher in adult education and ran a large adult education centre
in Brussels. Since 2016, she is the ENQA representative in the Harmonisation
of African Higher Education Quality Assurance and Accreditation (HAQAA)
Initiative, where she has been drafting the African Standards and Guidelines
for Quality Assurance (ASG-QA) and a review methodology for agency reviews. |
