Confident Assessment in Higher Education

About Rachel Forsyth

Rachel Forsyth is an educational developer who currently works at Lund University in Sweden as a project manager. She was previously Head of the University Teaching Academy at Manchester Metropolitan University where she was involved in major institutional change projects particularly in relation to inclusive learning communities and assessment in higher education. She is a Principal Fellow of the HEA and has taught on postgraduate programmes for teaching in higher education for twenty years including leading a specialist module on assessment. She has been a member of the Degree Standards Project team which has explored sector-owned processes for professional development of external examiners in the UK. As Editor-in-Chief of the Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal for five years she is an active member of the Researching Advancing Inspiring Student Engagement (RAISE) network.