Professor Clare Furneaux
Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education and Student Experience)

Professor Clare Furneaux works with the Pro-Vice-Chancellors (Education and Student Experience) to provide leadership for education and the student experience across the University.

As a member of the senior Teaching and Learning executive team, Clare is responsible for:

• providing inspirational leadership for the University’s Teaching and Learning community
• providing leadership, supporting and overseeing teaching, learning and the student experience (in collaboration with the relevant Schools Director of Teaching and Learning (SDTL) and the School Director of Academic Tutoring (SDAT) within the cluster of schools which she represents
• developing, leading and driving forward the University’s strategic priorities in Teaching and Learning, aligned to the overall University Strategy, within her school clusters
• securing enhancements in Teaching Excellence and the student experience through data-driven school and institutional improvements.

She is the Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education and Student Experience) working with the School of Humanities, School of Arts and Communication Design, and the International Study and Language Institute.

Room G89 Edith Morley
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Whiteknights, Reading
RG6 6EL

• +44 118 378 6343
• c.l.furneaux@reading.ac.uk

For diary matters, contact/copy:

Rachel Goodwin 

education-ego@reading.ac.uk 

Clare’s first degree was in English and history from the University of Bristol; she has a postgraduate diploma and PGCE from Manchester, a Master’s in Applied Linguistics from Reading and a Doctorate in Education from the University of London.

Clare’s background is in teaching English as a foreign language, having taught at schools and universities in China, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Portugal and Nepal.

At Reading, Clare joined what is now the International Study and Languages Institute (ISLI). She later transferred to the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, in the School of Humanities (SH), where she still teaches and conducts research into academic literacy.

Her previous roles have included Departmental and School Director of Teaching and Learning, School Director of Internationalisation, Academic Director of the University's first wholly distance MA programme in English Language Teaching, and MA programme director.

She is a member of CeLM – the University's Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism, the University Board for Teaching and Learning (UBTL), and the Teaching and Learning Strategy Board (TLSB).

She was appointed as Teaching and Learning Dean in 2015, and started a new six-year term in August 2021. Clare became Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education and Student Experience) on 1 August 2024.

Clare was one of our first University Teaching Fellows and was made a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2009.