Associate Non-Executive Directors

Dr Charmagne Barnes

Dr Charmagne Barnes is Pro Vice Chancellor for Education and Student experience at the University of Hertfordshire. The remit includes health, AHP and social work, amongst a host of other subjects and disciplines, including subjects related to medicine and the opening of a medical school in the near future. Prior to this new role, she was the Pro Vice-Chancellor Dean of the University of West London’s College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare. As a health care practitioner, Charmagne’s specialist area is Nursing – encompassing both Adult and Children’s Nursing – which has been a passion in her career both, as a clinician and as an educator.

Charmagne has worked extensively in the arena of learning and teaching, widening participation and access, student success, quality assurance and enhancement, academic partnerships and stakeholder engagement and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI). Her commitment to, experience and understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion would contribute to the focus on inclusive, equal and equitable processes and outcomes for patients and staff within the Trust.

Prior to joining the University of West London in 2012, she was the Director of Curriculum of Middlesex University and worked there from 1995 to 2012.

Charmagne graduated from the University of Hertfordshire in BSc Nursing and has a Doctorate in Education from the University of Nottingham.