Ben would welcome enquiries on supporting education colleagues with the following:

Curricula planning and programme design in Drama, Theatre and the wider Performing Arts.

Ben has written a wide range of Drama, Theatre, Acting and Performance programmes at UG and PG levels, including the innovative Dual Degree Theatre-Performance Making MFA, delivered in San Francisco by the University of Chichester and California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). 

He aims to offer encouragement towards critical/creative/cultural ambition and innovation, alongside pragmatic insight into planning processes and quality assurance principles in relation to the arts. He has a strong focus on assessment and feedback in practice and encourages a departure from the distinctions between practice and theory, and between radical enquiry and vocational delivery.

Taught Degree Awarding Powers, particularly in response to specialist provision.

Ben has a full understanding of OfS agendas and policy in relation to TDAP, and has worked as part of AQSU within the University of Chichester to support the maintenance of powers. 

Access.

Access to HE education remains a huge issue – Ben has a lifetime commitment to widening access and participation and have developed robust strategies on inclusion working with students of colour, disability and neurodivergency, and LGBTQ+ student communities to make creative education inclusive, diverse, radical and safe.

Independent scrutiny and support for all programme approval exercises.

Ben has extensive experience of independent chairing and scrutiny of non-subject-specialism programme approval. 

As Chair of the University of Chichester’s partnership approval programmes for AQSU, he developed an understanding and appreciation of the opportunities and challenges of partnerships between University and other providers, working with:

FE partners, including Brockenhurst College, HSDC, Chichester College Group, Peter Symonds College,

Specialist providers, including Norwich Institute of Language Education, the Performers College, Thinkspace Education.

International providers, including Sonus Factory, Rome, and the European School of Economics, Florence. 

Governance and compliance issues.

Ben has extensive experience as a School Governor in primary and secondary, local authority and academy, contexts.  he has been a Chair of Governors for two OFSTED outstanding schools, was a trustee for Bohunt Education Trust, and was a Staff-member of the University of Chichester governing body.  He  can offer insight and training, as well as mentoring support for effecting chairing, holding SLTs to account, mediation processes, disciplinary processes, compliance.  

Development of HE/FE partnership provision.

Ben has worked extensively as an independent Process Panel member for Open University partnership provision:  specifically, he has supported the writing processes, before the approval provision, for the Richmond American University in London, City of Liverpool College, the American College of Greece (Athens), and the University Centre, Peterborough

Learning and Teaching strategy and delivery, specific to the ‘student life cycle’ and the NSS.

As a long-standing Head of Department, Ben has extensive experience of annual monitoring processes and strategies designed to enhance and maintain the student life cycle.  Ben has a clear understanding of the scope and parameters of the NSS: teaching, assessment and feedback and student voice.