Catherine Cobbett

Lead Consultant

Catherine has worked in Higher Education administration for over 33 years culminating in the role of Academic Registrar at Leeds Trinity University with intervening Faculty Quality and Registrar roles at Leeds Metropolitan University. Most of her career has been in leadership and management roles having responsibility for all areas of student academic administration, quality assurance and standards, regulatory frameworks and academic governance. Catherine specialises in process design and review, always with a view that policies and procedures are geared to aid quality assurance and enhancement; and she loves looking at academic regulations! 

During the course of her career Catherine was an active member of QAA engaged in Institutional Audit, Review and Degree Awarding Powers and likewise a member of AUA (previous inception of AHEP) and particularly enjoyed acting as mentor for participants on its CPD award ‘Certificate in Higher Education and Leadership’. Catherine is also a School Governor for a Primary School with special interest in SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disability).