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Alison Johns

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Alison Johns
Academic background
Alma materLancaster University
Academic work
InstitutionsLeadership Foundation for Higher Education

Alison Johns is the chief executive of Advance HE in the UK.[1][2]

She was previously chief executive of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education,[3] and helped lead the LFHE into a merger with the Equality Challenge Unit and the Higher Education Academy to form Advance HE in 2018.[4] In December 2017 she was named as the chief executive officer-designate of the new organisation.[5][6]

She is also a past president of the Association of University Administrators.[7]

In 2024, she is also a non-executive member of Court at the University of St Andrews.[8]

Education

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Johns has a masters in management learning from Lancaster University where she studied part-time in the 1990s.[3][9]

References

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  1. ^ Advance HE website, Alison Johns, retrieved September 19, 2024
  2. ^ Higher Education Policy Institute website, Advance HE CEO Alison Johns: how our new guidance on protected beliefs will help on free speech issues, article dated 16 May, 2024
  3. ^ a b "Alison Johns confirmed as the new chief executive of the Leadership Foundation". heacademy.ac.uk. Higher Education Academy. 7 November 2014. Archived from the original on 14 October 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  4. ^ University of St Andrews website, Alison Johns
  5. ^ "HEA welcomes the sector agency merger". heacademy.ac.uk. Higher Education Academy. 18 December 2017. Archived from the original on 1 January 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Alison Johns named chief executive of UK's merged sector agency". Times Higher Education. 11 September 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Chief Executive-designate appointed to lead new HE sector agency". universitiesuk.ac.uk. Universities UK. 11 September 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  8. ^ University of St Andrews website, Standing Committees, retrieved 19 September, 2024
  9. ^ "Interview with Alison Johns". Times Higher Education. 21 September 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018.