Professor Howard Green, founding Senior Partner of Postgraduate Directions, has over twenty years experience in the management of and research about doctoral education in particular in positions of PVC at Staffordshire University, Dean of the Staffordshire Graduate School and Head of Research Development at Leeds Metropolitan University. In addition, he set up and chaired until 2003 the Modern Universities Research Group and between 2000 and 2006 was Chair of the UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE). He has worked on a range of projects for individual universities, the HEFCE and ESRC.