Yvonne Simpson

Yvonne Simpson was appointed as PA to the Dean of Teaching and Learning Development and Administrator to the TLD Unit in July 2006.  Yvonne joined Edge Hill in October 1994 where she began her career in the Academic Quality Unit as an Administrator. Her responsibilities involved the administration of Research Students, External Examiners, Institutional Committees and Validation events. 

In the summer of 2000 Yvonne was appointed as PA to the Head of School of Humanities and Arts where she gained a wide range of experience in all aspects administrative/secretarial duties, policies and procedures and the systems of Edge Hill. 

In her current role Yvonne has personal assistant responibilities to the Dean which involves the co-ordination of diaries, appointments and gate-keeping, time management and local and foreign travel arrangements for conferences and consultancies. Administrative duties include preparation, implementation and monitoring/recording of the TLD budget and all finance related tasks, minute-taking, generation, collation and distribution of papers for in-house committees and working groups, administering the University Learning and Teaching Fellowship Scheme and the general day to day running of the Unit.