Professor Ray Land

Ray Land is Professor of Higher Education at Durham University and Director of Durham's Centre for Learning, Teaching and Research in Higher Education. He previously held similar positions at the Universities of Strathclyde, Coventry and Edinburgh. Earlier in his career he worked at the University of Greenwich in London and Napier University in Edinburgh. He has been a higher education consultant for the OECD and the European Commission and is currently involved in two EC higher education projects. He has published widely in the field of educational research, and is particularly known for his research into 'threshold concepts' and 'troublesome knowledge' on which he published a series of books and organised four international conferences. He is also known for his studies of academic development and learning technology. He has given keynote presentations in over twenty countries.