Liz Thomas

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About Liz Thomas

Liz Thomas Associates provides higher education research and consultancy to higher education institutions and sector-wide bodies in the UK and beyond. We employ a research informed approach to improving the student experience in higher education. Further details are available from Professor Liz Thomas is an independent researcher and consultant for higher education. She is Director of the What works? Student retention and success change programme on behalf of the Higher Education Academy, working with Action on Access and funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. She is also Professor of Higher Education at Edge Hill University and Visiting Professor of Academic Development at Staffordshire University. Liz has over fifteen years’ experience of undertaking and managing research about widening participation, student retention and success and institutional approaches to improving the student experience. She is committed to using research to inform national and institutional policy, practice and evaluation, and has developed and led institutional change programmes involving 86 higher education institutions, which have resulted in changed policies, processes and practices.