| Member, Prime Minister's Initiative Higher Education Advisory Group | Member, QAA Development Group for Masters Level Benchmarking | Member, British Council, Education and Governance Advisory Group | Member, Research Information Network (RIN) Research and Libraries Working Group | 2007--: Director and Trustee, CARA (Council for Assisting Refugee Academics) | Member, Comité International de Consultation en Sciences Humaines et Sociales de l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French National Research Council) | Centre for Education and Industry Diploma in Humanities Steering Group | Appointed Higher Education Advisor to the British Council | Member of the Advisory Board for the Programme of Artistic Research of the Austrian Research Council (FWF). Publications Typical Men Women's Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990s National Healths: Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-cultural Context' Liberating Learning: Widening Participation'' References 1951 births Living people Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of University College London Historians of French literature Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Officiers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques Fellows of the Chartered Institute of Linguists People from Luanshya Academics of the University of Liverpool Recipients of the President's Medal (British Academy)