Professor Dilly Fung joined The London School of Economics and Political Science in May 2018 and since the end of July 2018, she is Pro-Director for Education.
Her work focuses on the circle of scholarship that connects research, learning, engagement and leadership. Her open access monograph, A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education (2017), explores the unity of research and teaching in curriculum design, providing a spectrum of practical applications to programme design within and across the disciplines.
Before joining LSE, Dilly was Professor of Higher Education Development at University College London and the Academic Director for UCL Arena Centre for Research-based Education. As Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, she has led a series of ambitious initiatives designed to advance research-based education at UCL, including the innovative Connected Curriculum strategy. Previously, Dilly was Senior Lecturer in Academic Practice and Head of Academic Development at the University of Exeter, where she had been awarded a PhD in Higher Education.
Recent publications include an HEA-funded analysis of ways in which job families and career opportunities are changing in research-intensive institutions, and she was also lead author of a position paper by the League of European Research Universities looking at educational excellence in Europe’s leading research-intensive universities.