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Annie Weir is a Research Fellow at CES. She first joined CES in March 2009 as a Contract Researcher working with Professor Jenny Ozga on a Scottish Funding Council project looking at the Feasibility of Quality Assurance of Knowledge Transfer. She recently completed a short contract working on an education project as part of the large European Commission 6th Framework Integrated project ‘Knowledge and Policy. Currently Dr Weir is with working Professor Ozga and Professor Kate Niven (University of Stirling) on a project funded by the Chief Nursing Office on Building Knowledge Exchange: Clinical Academic Posts for Nursing and Recognition of Knowledge Exchange between Health and Higher Education Systems. Before joining CES, Dr Weir was the Education Quality Manager for a large New Zealand institution.

Annie Weir’s main research is in the quality assurance of further and higher education, which includes education policy. Other research interest include knowledge transfer in higher education; interface between health and higher education systems; higher education and globalisation; higher education policy in UK devolved context; programme reviews; critique of qualifications frameworks.