Dilly Fung

Professor Dilly Fung joined The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK in May 2018; at the end of July 2018 she will assume the duties of Pro-Director for Education.

Drawing on her interdisciplinary roots in English, Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Education and on her long teaching career, Dilly’s work focuses on the circle of scholarship that connects research, learning, engagement and leadership (Fung 2016). Her open access monograph, A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education (Fung 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 (UCL) and also the Academic Director for UCL Arena Centre for Research-based Education (formerly the UCL’s Centre for Advancing Learning and Teaching). A Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, she 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 (Fung and Gordon 2016). Dilly was also lead author of a position paper by the League of European Research Universities (LERU) looking at educational excellence in Europe’s leading research-intensive universities (Fung, Besters-Dilger and van der Vaart 2017). She speaks regularly in the UK and internationally on these themes.