Paul Trowler

Paul Trowler is Professor Emeritus, Lancaster University. He is an elected Fellow of the Society for Research into Higher Education and previously of the Academy of Social Sciences. Paul was Director of two PhD programmes at Lancaster University for many years.

Paul has supervised around 50 doctoral researchers to successful completion of their PhD, has taught PhD programmes for 25 years and helped launch the 100% online PhD programme in 2013. He has been internal examiner for very many candidates and external examiner for over 20 candidates in 16 different universities around the world.

He has research interests which include: enhancing student engagement; academic 'tribes' and their disciplinary territories; planning and managing change in universities; the implementation of planned change particularly related to the enhancement of the curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment; higher education policy-making and environmental change; cultures in universities; and approaches to evaluation.