This is a University-wide leadership role, with responsibility for the quality assurance of all taught undergraduate and postgraduate programmes awarded by the University, including those offered through collaborative partnerships. As part of these responsibilities, Dr Haddleton chairs the University’s ‘Academic Standards and Audit Committee’. Prior to his appointment at University level, Frank had lectured in Engineering at the University of Hertfordshire since 1987, along with associate lecturing positions at The Open University and The University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg. He remains active in his discipline, as a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Academic Standards Committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Council of Validating Universities (CVU, an organisation that specialises in good practice in the management of collaborative provision) and has been a QAA reviewer since 2001. His national experience in quality assurance of Higher Education led to him being invited to be a member of the QAA Advisory Groups for the development of Chapter B7 (External Examining) and Chapter B10 (Managing Higher Education with Others) of the UK Quality Code. In 2016 he was invited to become a member of the Higher Education Academy’s Grade Point Average (GPA) National Implementation Steering Group, and an external reviewer for the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), Dubai. His sector-wide experience of learning, teaching and assessment in Higher Education has recently been recognised through the award of a Principal Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.