Christopher Payne has more than ten years’ senior management experience in a variety of HEPs, during which time he has developed an advanced understanding of national policy developments in UKHE and their particular application to the Buckingham context. With significant senior contacts across the sector, Chris is currently the University’s AHUA representative and regularly contributes to debate with sector commentators through his active LinkedIn profile.
As a University administrator, Chris’ philosophy is that academic governance and management is best led by people and guided by process rather than the other way around, and that a healthy workplace culture is best fostered by means of an engagement and outcomes-driven, rather than rules-driven, approach.
Chris is currently undertaking a Doctorate in Political Economy and Public Policy at Buckingham, with a particular focus on the impact of the Office for Students’ Regulatory Framework on organisational dynamics in general and institutional autonomy in particular.
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