Harriet Jones was Professor of Student Learning in the School of Biological Sciences, the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation at the University of East Anglia. She was a Senior Fellow of the HEA and was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2019 for her work on the holistic approach to the school-to-university transition. She specialised in teaching first year students in the School of Biological Sciences and researched the problems students face in making the move into HE for over 20 years. She worked with UCAS, Ofqual, OCR, AQA and IB, and contributed to conferences and workshops with educators on both sides of the school-to-university transition.
