Dr Jason Snelling

Qualifications:

BA(Hons), MSc, NIAT I, PGcHE, SFHEA, PhD

Position:

Director - Partnerships

Department:

School of Architecture and Environment

Telephone:

+441173287382

Email:

Jason.Snelling@uwe.ac.uk

About me

As Director of Partnerships within the School of Architecture and Environment, I lead the development, growth and delivery of complex partnership, professional education and internationalisation activity across the College of Arts, Technology and Environment and beyond. My work spans international partnerships, transnational education, professional education, degree apprenticeships, enterprise activity and institutional growth initiatives, bringing together academic, commercial, regulatory and operational considerations to deliver sustainable value for UWE Bristol.

I currently lead and develop partnership activity spanning all Colleges across the University through transnational education partnerships and emerging developments in China, Africa, the Middle East and Hong Kong. This includes creating and mobilising new partnership opportunities, developing business cases, overseeing international collaborative provision, supporting staff development and CPD activity, and translating strategic ambitions into practical delivery.

A recurring theme throughout my career is working across organisational boundaries to create institutional rather than local value. I founded the Directors of Partnerships Network and the Transnational Education Learning and Teaching Forum to strengthen collaboration, multidirectional learning and knowledge exchange across UWE and its global partners. I am particularly interested in creating sustainable partnership ecosystems that connect people, disciplines, Schools, Colleges and external partners, ensuring the University's collective expertise is aligned behind shared opportunities and delivers educational, social and economic value at greater scale.

Alongside my partnership portfolio, I contribute to School leadership as a member of the Executive Team and regularly represent the School, College and University in engagement with senior academic leaders, employers, professional bodies, governments and international partners. I am often engaged in opportunities involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities or complex implementation, reflecting a leadership approach centred on connecting people, creating momentum and translating institutional ambition into delivery. 

As a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, I remain actively engaged in educational enhancement, pedagogic innovation and leadership development. My professional interests include international partnership development, communities of practice, leadership in complex organisations, institutional growth and change, and the relationship between operational delivery and strategic success.

Area of expertise

• International partnerships and transnational education (TNE)
• Strategic growth and business development
• Online, hybrid and professional education
• CPD and workforce development
• International quality assurance and regulatory frameworks
• Partnership governance, risk and portfolio management
• Degree apprenticeships and employer engagement
• Institutional change and matrix leadership
• Educational enhancement and academic leadership
• Staff development, coaching and mentoring
• Cross-sector collaboration with employers, government and professional bodies
• Building communities of practice and institutional capability
• Risk management and decision-making

Research and professional interests

• Pedagogic innovation, educational enhancement and communities of practice
• Transnational education and international partnership development
• Leadership, organisational change and strategy implementation
• Research methods and the analysis of complex behaviour across the life course
• Global migration, mobility and travel behaviour
• Risk, decision-making and structured analytic techniques
• Counter-terrorism, transnational organised crime and modern slavery

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