Karen Marriott (BSc Hons)

Head of Student and Academic Services

  • School of Health in Social Science
  • College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Contact details

Availability

  • Mon: 08.30-16.45
    Tues: 08.30-16.45
    Wed: 08.30-17:00
    Thurs: 08.30-16.45
    Friday: alternates between 08:30-16:00 and a non-working day

Biography

Background

I am a career administrator within the higher education sector and enjoy the challenges that working in higher education brings. My key strengths are people skills and data analysis/management

I joined the School of Health in Social Science in September 2024 as the Head of Student and Academic Services, after 4 years as the Teaching Service Manager in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.

As a senior member of the School's professional services team, I am responsible for matters related to Undergraduate, Postgraduate Taught, and Postgraduate Research academic and student support services. I provide professional advice and guidance and am accountable for the quality of services delivered across all aspects of teaching, learning, supervision, and student support within the school, including professionally accredited programs in Clinical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, and Nursing. I also manage the integration of policy and regulatory requirements into the activities of each of the three professional service teams I oversee (Student Support & Experience, Teaching Office, Postgraduate Research Support) I work closely with the School Director of Learning & Teaching, Director of Students and Director of Quality on matters relating to learning and teaching, and student support.  

Previous Career History

Immediately prior to joining the University of Edinburgh I had covered a number of short term contracts at the University of Stirling within the Academic Registry and the Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport. Before working at the University of Stirling I worked at Heriot-Watt University over a 15 year period in the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure & Society and the Academic Registry. In my early career I also worked at Queen Margaret University College, now Queen Margaret University, and briefly as a statistician at the Scottish Government.

 

Qualifications

BSc Hons Statistics with Mathematics, University of Leeds

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