Wayne Turnbull is Head of Academic Policy at Liverpool John Moores University. He is a Director of the Northern Universities Consortium (NUCCAT) a forum for higher education practitioners with an interest in the design, implementation and regulation of credit-based curriculum and its implications for the student experience and progression. He is Co-chair of the UK Credit Forum, monitoringdevelopments in the higher education sector pertaining to the awarding of credit, credit transfer, the operation of modular frameworks and their underpinning regulation.