Janet Carton

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About Janet Carton

Strategic academic development, creativity in provision of graduate research support frameworks and bespoke management models, with a demonstrable history in innovation, leadership and mentoring. Passion for ongoing, lifelong professional development and skills enhancement in graduate education. Partnership building, sustainability and stakeholder management in all initiatives. Substantial experience in designing and delivering training programmes with impact. Dedication to experience enhancement for both students and supervisors in doctoral education. Consultation on same internationally. Development of support initiatives, quality assurance mechanisms and governance structures for broad disciplinary fields in higher education and in biomedicine and health (ORPHEUS). Chair of QA and Training working groups. External reviewer of Graduate Education programmes and Graduate Schools (RCSI and Uni of Aarhus).Strong advocate for fostering collaborative solutions to common higher educational challenges through partnership building. Skilled in strategic planning, policy development, public speaking, research and networking, Succesful project developer, through creation, management, implementation and review. Management of culturally significant change initiatives, across multi-disciplinary and diverse environments. Recipent of National Forum and Erasmus Mundus funding. Strong training background in science and education with a first in class, top 10% in year (and 1.1) Honours Degree in Zoology and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Human Immunology from St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, under Prof. Cliona O'Farrelly, TCD. Certified in Training (IITD) and Professional Development Management (Dip Prof Mgt).