Professor Susan Orr joined York St John in November 2020 and leads on the delivery of the University’s Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Strategy shaping the enhancement of authentic assessment, student partnership, employability, pedagogic excellence and inclusive curriculum. She is also the Executive sponsor for the University’s Race Equality Charter and Athena Swan Charter, driving forward engagement and change towards race and gender equality. Before coming to York St John, Professor Orr was Dean of Learning and Teaching Enhancement at the University of the Arts in London (UAL), a post she held since 2013. In this role she led the Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange, which comprised Arts Education, Careers and Employability, the Academic Enhancement Team and Digital Learning. Prior to this she held roles at Sheffield Hallam University as Assistant Dean and Acting Pro Vice Chancellor in their Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences. Professor Orr was Principal Lecturer and then Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Arts at York St John from 2003-2011. In 2017 Professor Orr was a member of the main Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Panel for TEF 2 and in 2018 she was appointed Chair of the Arts Panel for the first subject-level pilot of the TEF. She currently chairs the European League of Institutes of the Arts’ Teachers Academy. Professor Orr is a Principal Fellow of the HEA and a National Teaching Fellow whose published research focuses on creative education. Susan co-authored with Alison Shreeve the Routledge book Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education: Knowledge, Values and Ambiguity in the Creative Curriculum in 2018. Professor Orr edits the international journal Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education.