Office staff and contact details
Tessa Harrison
University Registrar
Role: Executive Assistant | Name: Philippa Kirk | Tel: 023 8059 7582 | Email: p.kirk@southampton.ac.uk
Main responsibilities
Tessa provides leadership to seven professional services, plus the University’s eight Faculty Operating Officers, and works alongside Chief Operating Officer Malcolm Ace to ensure that our professional services play a key role in enabling the University to realise its ambitious educational, research and enterprise strategic aims.
Research, achievements and external responsibilities
In her previous role as Academic Registrar and Clerk to Governors at the University of West England (UWE)‚ Tessa led a number of cross–institutional projects including a substantial change programme to deliver a new‚ integrated Academic Registry. She is a Fellow and member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of University Administrators‚ a member of the Academic Registrar’s Council, a member of the Association of Heads of University Administration, and a member of the Board of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.
Tessa holds a BA (Hons) in Sociology and English from Lancaster University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Women’s Studies from Anglia Polytechnic University. In 1993 she joined Lancaster University as Head of the Undergraduate Registry and from 2000 was Head of the Teaching Quality Support Office before joining UWE.