Associate Dean, Education (Arts and Divinity)

The Associate Dean acts with full authority on behalf of the Assistant Vice Principal Dean of Learning and Teaching.

Responsibilities

• Convener of the Entrepreneurial Education Working Group.
• Convener of the Sustainability in the Curriculum Committee and advisor to the Environmental Sustainability Board.
• Contributing to student progression reviews and the resolution of appeals.
• Approval of module results and Study Abroad grade conversions.
• Representing the Assistant Vice-Principal (Dean of Learning and Teaching) on academic appointment panels.
• Academic leadership of the Laidlaw programme in collaboration with the Associate Dean (Science).
• Responding to issues raised by External Examiners.
• Fostering expertise in Learning and Teaching among academic colleagues.
• In consultation with the Proctor's Office, leading academic open fora and dissemination events.
• Academic monitoring and approvals.
• Policy development and review.

Lenia has a BA Hons (Archaeology and Art History) from the University of Athens, Greece, as well as an MLitt (Late Medieval and Renaissance Italian Art) from St Andrews, where she also completed her PhD in 2009. She has worked as a Neil Macgregor scholar at the National Gallery, London, doing research for the National Inventory Research Project, and has participated in a number of archaeological excavations in Greece.