Katharine Hubbard is a National Teaching Fellow and Principal Fellow of the AdvanceHE, and the winner of multiple institutional and national teaching awards. She is currently Director of Learning Enhancement and Academic Practice at Buckinghamshire New University.

Katharine trained as an experimental plant cell biologist, doing her PhD in the laboratory of Alex Webb, and postdoctoral research with Julian Schroeder. She then chose to develop an education focussed career, starting with roles at Churchill College Cambridge and in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.

She then moved to the University of Hull, being promoted a Reader in Biological Sciences Education and Director of Education for the School of Natural Sciences. She was also a Senior Fellow of the University of Hull Teaching Excellence Academy, where she was institutional lead for addressing Awarding Gaps and lead author of a cross-institutional Inclusive Education Framework funded by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA). The framework underpinned the University of Hull TEF Gold Award in 2023, and was highlighted as excellent practice in the QAA ‘Evaluating Excellence’ report, 2024 and AdvanceHE TEF 2023: Patterns of Excellence report.

Katharine was a member of the QAA Subject Benchmark Statement working group for the Biosciences in 2023, and has worked with the Royal Society of Biology and Society of Experimental Biology to raise the profile of education focussed work, including as a founder of the Bioscience Educators Network and judge for the Royal Society of Biology Higher Education Teacher of the Year Award. 

Katharine has an extensive publication record in pedagogical research and scholarship, and is regularly invited to give keynotes addresses and seminars.