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Gillian King has worked in teaching and research in paleontology, as Assistant Curator at the Zoological Collections at Oxford University Museum, and a Fellow and Tutor as St Hilda's College, Oxford. She spent 15 years at Oxford and five years at the South African Museum in Cape Town, where she specialised in dicynodonts. She also has degrees from Oxford and a qualification in training and development.
She moved to Cambridge, and worked from 1998 to 2007 as an administrator at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College. From 2004-2007 she was Head of the Education Section in the Academic Division. She also worked with staff and undergraduates as a trainer for the national Springboard women's development programme.
In 2007 she left Cambridge to join the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education as Deputy Director (Audit). Her responsibilities included planning, co-ordinating and managing all operational activities for institutional audit and collaborative provision audit in England and Northern Ireland and overseas audit for the UK.
She left QAA in 2011 to pursue a career as an independent consultant in quality assurance of higher education. She specialises in developing and implementing systems for the assurance of quality of learning and teaching in Universities and Colleges in the UK and overseas. She regularly delivers training for review panel members, and serves on review panels. She has worked with various overseas quality assurance systems, including agencies in Malaysia, Pakistan, Oman, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Russian Federation, Armenia, Estonia, Lithuania and the UK.