Shirley Bennett is Head of Academic Practive at the University of Northampton, leading the institutional CPD Scheme, which is accredited by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) for the award of HEA Fellowships. She is also a member of the team of national HEA Accreditors and a UKPSF Consultant for the HEA. Her research interests lie especially in aspects of professional development for HE Teaching, and most particularly in the field of Peer Review and Online Peer Observation. She previously worked in the University of Hull, where I was Programme Director for the MEd in eLearning, delivered entirely online, and various Senior Advisor roles focusing on Peer Support for Learning & Teaching, Assessment and Feedback and eLearning. She is an HEA Senior Fellow, and has worked abroad both in Sudan, as a VSO volunteer in Shambat College of Agriculture and the University of Khartoum, and in China, in Xian Jiaotong University as a British Council-recruited Professional Developer.