Professor Mark Allinson

Professor Mark Allinson

Academic Director 

Mark is responsible for overseeing the development and quality of academic provision in the London campus, aligned to the University’s Education and Curriculum strategies. He works closely with both academic and professional services teams and collaborates with students to co-create an excellent learning experience. 
 

Current modules taught: 

• Preparing to Learn in London 
   

Career biography: 

Mark has nearly three decades of experience in leadership in higher education. Before coming to University of Portsmouth London, Mark was Director of Student Experience at the LSE. His broad remit included work on community, communications, students' voices and feedback, data analysis and evaluation, academic support and opportunities. 

He was the senior university lead for relations with the Student Union. Mark started his career at Royal Holloway, London where he created a new department in the 1990s before moving to the University of Leicester as Professor of Spanish and Head of the School of Modern Languages.

More recently he was Associate Provost at Regent’s University London, leading on student experience and educational development. His disciplinary research was in the area of Spanish culture, literature and film, on which he published three books and numerous chapters and articles.

His more recent work and publications are focused on distributed educational leadership, and collaborative design. 
 

Research Interests: 

• Curriculum design, especially active, blended learning 

• Collaboration and creative tools for learning design 

• Distributed leadership in HE 

• Simulation in leadership and management education 

• Developing teachers in higher education