Professor Nina-Anne Lawrence
Bio:
Professor Nina-Anne Lawrence has had an extensive career in international education encompassing both academic delivery, international business development and senior management of international education programmes and centres both overseas and in the UK.
Nina-Anne’s subject specialism is EAP. She taught early on in her career at Royal Holloway, University of London where she wrote and established their Postgraduate Bridging Diploma and from there moved to Trinity College, Bristol to establish a Language Centre from scratch largely offering preparation for students progressing onto degree programmes in the main college. She successfully took this centre through British Council accreditation.
Nina-Anne lived in China for almost 5 years and in that time she worked with NCUK’s then major Chinese partner first in Centre Principal roles, running the NCUK International Foundation Programme. As the company expanded, she progressed to Head Office as Director of English Language and finally Director of Academic Affairs running 11 centres offering IFY and PMP programmes. She also later became the Academic Director/CEO and Honorary Director of DIFC, also running NCUK programmes.
Nina-Anne wrote a number of programmes and syllabi including the NCUK IFY EAP, NCUK PMP EAP and the NCUK PMP programme.
In terms of international affairs, Nina-Anne became Academic Director of the China Office for a UK university and then took on the roles of Head of International Business Development and Director of International Affairs in the UK.
Having held a range of senior academic management roles within international education and also a period as co-Director of an international charity centre, more recently, Nina-Anne was Director of International Pathway Programmes at the University of Leeds where she led the in-house IFY and also manged two key strategic external partnerships.
Also holding an MBA specialising in internationalisation, Nina-Anne’s BA and MA are in linguistics. She has authored a book on business presentations published by Longman.
She is currently the Chair of the University Pathway Alliance (UPA), an association for universities with their own international foundation programmes. She is also a member of the editorial board for the InForm Journal.
In her free time, Nina-Anne enjoys ‘world’s strongest man’ style strength training and competes in regional strongwoman competitions. As a qualified personal trainer, she coached a staff Strength4Life class at the University of Leeds for which she won the Remarkable Coach Award presented by Strength & Conditioning Education 2021.
