Professor Louise Hague
Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education and Student Experience)

Professor Louise Hague works with the Pro-Vice-Chancellors (Education and Student Experience) to provide leadership for education and the student experience across the University.

As a member of the senior Teaching and Learning executive team, Louise is responsible for:

• providing inspirational leadership for the University’s Teaching and Learning community
• providing leadership, supporting and overseeing teaching, learning and the student experience (in collaboration with the relevant Schools Director of Teaching and Learning (SDTL) and the School Director of Academic Tutoring (SDAT) within the cluster of schools which she represents
• developing, leading and driving forward the University’s strategic priorities in Teaching and Learning, aligned to the overall University Strategy, within her school clusters
• securing enhancements in Teaching Excellence and the student experience through data-driven school and institutional improvements.

She is the Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education and Student Experience) working with the School of Law, School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Henley Business School, and the Institute of Education.

Louise is a Professor in the School of Law and has held a number of key posts including Senior Tutor, School Director of Teaching and Learning and Deputy Head of School (2019). She had responsibility for the Legal Skills module on the LLB degree programme and led the School of Law’s ‘Streetlaw’ programme for many years, which involved students widening and disseminating legal knowledge in the local community. Her teaching interests include constitutional and administrative law, history of English law and legal skills. Louise is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

Louise is an alumna of the University of Reading, completing both her LLB and postgraduate degrees at Reading. She joined the School of Law in September 2007 after working for the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA) and took on the role of School Director for Teaching & Learning (SDTL) in 2018.

Louise started her six-year term as a Teaching and Learning Dean in August 2021. Louise became Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education and Student Experience) on 1 August 2024.