Auditor

Sophie Hayman is a higher education consultant currently working with the Association of Tertiary Education Management (ATEM). Sophie has extensive experience of tertiary education strategy, governance, quality assurance and operational management. This experience includes policy development; the accreditation of academic qualifications; academic audit and departmental reviews. Working for nearly thirty years at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) she held leadership roles across a range of portfolios including staff development, learning & teaching, and equity. She was also a member of the University Council for eight years.  In her time at AUT Sophie was involved in all four of AUT’s Academic Audits.

Ashalyna Noa is currently a Pacific Academic Lead at the University of Canterbury (UC). In her role, she has actively contributed to CUAP proposals, programme reviews and various university boards and committees. With 14 years’ experience working at UC, she has held a variety of roles engaging with learners, including pastoral care support. From late 2016 - 2018, she coordinated a collaborative Ako Aotearoa research project on Pacific learner success at UC, Ara Institute of Canterbury and Lincoln University. She is completing a PhD at UC, where she also attained a Master of Arts and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours. Ashalyna is also a passionate member of the Pacific community in Christchurch, with over 10 years’ experience serving on local and national committees.

Amanda McKenzie, MA, is the Director of Quality Assurance (Academic Programs) and oversees both the Quality Assurance Office and the Office of Academic Integrity at the University of Waterloo.

Amanda became involved in quality assurance in 2015 and was charged with building the Quality Assurance Office for the University of Waterloo. She has volunteered on several working groups and special projects for the Ontario Universities Council on Quality Assurance (Quality Council). More recently, she has provided consultation on quality assurance and academic integrity for the American Councils for International Education and the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (NAQA) in Ukraine.

She is involved in academic integrity initiatives on a provincial, national and international level. Amanda is an active subject matter expert in this area and has spoken around the world. She has also published a number of articles and book chapters in this field and serves on the editorial team for the Canadian Perspectives on Academic Integrity journal.

Amanda was part of the transition team for the International Center for Academic Integrity since 2016 and has been an Officer on the Board of Directors since 2018. She also serves as a representative & co-founder of ICAI Canadian Regional Consortium (ICAI Canada) which was established in 2014. Amanda is the former Chair of the Academic Integrity Council of Ontario (AICO) and currently serves as the Secretary/Outreach Coordinator. Her current focus in the field is on contract cheating and the intersection of academic integrity and quality assurance.

Amanda has given a number of talks about quality assurance and academic integrity: Connecting Academic Integrity and Quality Assurance - YouTube; How to raise the profile of academic integrity through quality assurance. - YouTube.

Dan Derricott is Head of Academic Policy and Quality Assurance at University College London (UCL), where he leads on the development of the University’s academic regulations and policy, quality assurance and enhancement frameworks, and academic governance. He serves on the Quality Assessment Committee of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, having previously served on the equivalent committee for the English HE regulator, the Board of the Quality Assurance Agency UK and as Chair of the European Quality Assurance Forum. Dan is an experienced reviewer and review manager for quality assurance agencies across Europe and currently manages reviews of agencies themselves for ENQA, the European Association of Quality Assurance.

Mark Davies is Emeritus Professor of Bioscience at the University of Sunderland, UK. He is a Principal Fellow of the HEA and a UK National Teaching Fellow. He has been a reviewer with the QAA, UK, for over twenty years, including reviews in India, Malaysia and the UAE. In addition to reviewing this activity has included – across a large range of different provider types – participation in appeals, investigative responses to whistleblowing, developing new review methods, scrutiny for taught and research degree awarding powers, and the production of confidential reports to government. He has also reviewed and chaired reviews for national agencies in Albania, Croatia, Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia.  He has acted as a consultant in quality assurance, governance, staff development and accreditation to 33 UK providers and others in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and China.

Dr Hamish Cochrane is the Director, Student Administration, Student Heath, and Accommodation at Lincoln University and was one of two COVID-19 incident controllers for the University. He has previously held roles as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Dean of Engineering and Forestry, Chair of the Forestry Board of Studies, and University Proctor at the University of Canterbury and was a member of the Committee on University Academic Programmes (CUAP) for six years. 

In his Lincoln University role, Hamish has served on Committee on University Student Pastoral (CUSPaC) since its inception, and also has experience of international quality review (at the University of Western Sydney) and quality review under the NZQA system (review of Waiariki ITP degree programme).

He was a member of the Cycle 6 academic audit panel for Massey University Te Kunenga Ki Pūrehuroa

Professor Marion Jones is Professor of Interprofessional Learning and Professor in the DVC Office, Auckland University of Technology (AUT); a Director of the National Centre for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice in New Zealand and Professor of Interprofessional Education at the University of Derby in the United Kingdom. A significant focus of her academic career has been the development of postgraduate study, interprofessional education and practice, researcher development, research supervision and mentoring of new supervisors. 

For ten years she provided her expertise as Dean of the Graduate Research School at AUT and prior to that as Associate Dean Postgraduate to the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences for some years. Her area of research expertise and publication is interprofessional practice and education, postgraduate supervision and perioperative nursing. Her latest publications include co-editing four books on interprofessional leadership with the 4^th book published June 2020. She is author or co-author of more than 40 articles and 10 books on these topics.

Her PhD examined the shaping of interprofessional practice in the context of health reform. Some of her national and international activities include being the Representative for the Australasian Interprofessional Practice & Education Network (AIPPEN) on the Confederation of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (Interprofessional Global), Member of the Professional Education Committee for the Perioperative College of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation(NZNO and member of the NZNO along with being a life member of the Perioperative College, past Member of the New Zealand Deans and Directors of Graduate Research group and past Associate member of the Australian Council of Graduate Research.

During a seventeen-year career in the IT industry, Sharon established and managed large customer service teams supporting internal and external customers in New Zealand and internationally. Sharon then spent seven years as a student at Lincoln University, where she completed a Bachelor of Viticulture & Oenology degree, a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree, and a PhD in Marketing. Sharon was subsequently employed as an academic for eleven years at Lincoln University, where she progressed to the Associate Professor level. Over that period, Sharon won several teaching awards and some international research awards, and she was also an active member or Chair of various Faculty and University Committees. Sharon left Lincoln University at the end of 2019 and started her own consultancy business; she continues to work for clients in the tertiary education sector. 

Dugald Scott is a professor emeritus of Victoria University of Wellington where he was Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of Education from 2005 until his retirement in 2013.

Since 1996 he has been a member of the Committee on University Academic Programmes (CUAP), the body which approves all university qualifications in New Zealand and was appointed as Deputy Chair of CUAP in 2006, a position he still holds. He chairs the CUAP Subcommittee on University Entrance, which considers matters relating to the entrance standards for New Zealand’s eight universities and has represented Universities NZ and the New Zealand Vice Chancellors’ Committee on several local and international working parties and groups considering aspects of quality assurance and the use of performance indicators in higher education. He was an auditor for the Academic Audit Agency for New Zealand Universities (Cycle 5), and has been a Chair of the University of Auckland Human Participants Ethics Committee (UAHPEC) since 2015. In 2019 he was appointed as a lay member of the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal.