Prof Norbert Pachler is currently Pro-Vice-Provost: Digital Education at UCL. He works closely with the Vice-Provost Education and Student Affairs on UCL-wide initiatives with a particular focus on academic oversight of digital education across the university.

In his previous role as Pro-Director: Teaching, Quality and Learning Innovation at the UCL Institute of Education from 2013-2020, Norbert had overall strategic responsibility for the UCL Institute of Education’s teaching and learning portfolio comprising a large teacher education, undergraduate and postgraduate taught portfolio, leading change, managing quality and supporting curriculum and pedagogical innovation.

Between 2018-2020 Norbert also served as Vice-Dean: Enterprise for UCL IOE across consultancy, knowledge exchange, entrepreneurship and other third stream activities and he has lead and contributed to a number of large-scale international teacher education and development projects.

Norbert has been involved in a number of complex, multi-national, multi-year, EU-funded research projects and has been PI on and participated in a number of research and consultancy projects for UK and international governments, quasi non-governmental organisations and (pan-European) research bodies, including the Higher Education Funding Council as well as the European Commission.