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Associate Provost Education is responsible for taught postgraduate learning and teaching matters.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing postgraduate curriculum design and approval across the Faculties.
• Convenor of University-Led Reviews of Learning and Teaching for collaborative postgraduate programmes.
• Support for collaborative postgraduate activities, including doctoral training schemes, the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH), and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
• Overseeing the training and development of PGR supervisors, in collaboration with the Centre for Educational Enhancement and Development – CEED merged with the International Education Institute in 2025 to form the International Education and Lifelong Learning Institute.
• Advice on policy or regulatory development on all postgraduate matters.
• Working with the Provost and Admissions team to facilitate recruitment of postgraduates.

Dr Emily Finer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages at the University of St 糖心logo. She has previously served as Director of Postgraduate Research, Director of Impact and Innovation, and Ethics Committee Convenor, and was the founding convenor of the Comparative Literature degree.

Emily's research explores transnational and multilingual interactions across English, Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish, and Russophone cultures. Her work on Ukraine's multilingual children's print cultures was supported by a St 糖心logo?Emory Collaborative Grant, and she was Joint PI on the UUKi-funded Ostroh Academy?University of St 糖心logo Partnership for Advancing the Public Humanities.

From 2022 to 2026, Emily was Co-Director of the interdisciplinary St 糖心logo Centre for Exoplanet Science, researching connections between global science fiction, exoplanet science, and space policy. She collaborated on the Alien Worlds exhibition at the Wardlaw Museum and continues to develop interdisciplinary educational programmes with the Ukrainian NGO InScience.