Dr Andrew Holmes

Andrew has worked in higher education for over 20 years, including working with a wide range of external partner organizations, both public, NHS, private and not-for-profit sectors to develop, accredit and/or directly deliver work-based learning.

Andrew is a keen, friendly and enthusiastic facilitator with extensive experience and expertise in/of the design, development and delivery of higher education courses. He is passionate about encouraging every learner's development of applied skills, theoretical and tacit knowledge for the workplace and life and encouraging independent learning.

He was a seconded Senior Fellow of the University's Teaching Excellence Academy, from 2023-2025 working collaboratively on an institution and sector-wide competence based curriculum development framework C-BAss. The project outputs are available on the university website.

Andrew's research is primarily in HE assessment, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and HE pedagogy.

Andrew is a Senior Fellow of the HEA, an International Entrepreneurship Educators Programme Fellow, member of the IQA, an NGCE Enterprise Educator and holds the D32/D34 NVQ assessor/internal verifier qualifications.

Formally the Director of teaching in learning in the School of Education and former network convenor for the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL https://www.uall.ac.uk/) Administration Network

Andrew has managed externally funded research projects, including European Social Fund and, YHELLN ones. He was responsible for developing and implementing the University Foundation Award (UFA progamme) of accreditation for part-time courses, which ran for over 20 years and allowed thousands of people in our region to access part-time higher education courses and become students of the university of Hull.

Andrew is a Director and Trustee of the charity Hull and East Yorkshire Children's University https://www.hullchildrensuniversity.com/ and has worked with and supported their work for over 15 years.

He is a member of the University's Enactus Steering Group https://enactus.org/

From 2021-2024 he was an elected Faculty representative on Senate representing the Faculty of Arts, Culture and Education.

From 2026 onwards he is one of the two FASE Green Champions for research.