Professor Roni Bamber is Director of the Centre for Academic Practice at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. She has worked as an educational developer for 13 years, and has contributed to numerous national initiatives and projects, including the Scottish Enhancement Themes.  Roni has also been involved in significant international work, including in Greece, India, Jordan, Morocco, Nepal, Saudi Arabia and Siberia. Prior to working in educational development, Roni was a lecturer in Spanish for 18 years, teaching in four different universities around the UK.

Roni’s current research is in universities as organizations, the development of academic staff, enhancement of learning and teaching, and the evaluation of development programmes.  Recent publications include three books with co-writers Professor Paul Trowler and Professor Murray Saunders on Enhancing Learning, Teaching, Assessment and Curriculum in Higher Education (2009); Reconceptualising Evaluation in Higher Education (2011) and Tribes and Territories in the 21st-century: Rethinking  the Significance of Disciplines in Higher Education (Jan 2012).