Gillian King
Gillian King has worked in teaching and research in paleontology, as Assistant Curator at the Zoological Collections at Oxford University Museum, and a Fellow and Tutor as St Hilda's College, Oxford. She spent 15 years at Oxford and five years at the South African Museum in Cape Town, where she specialised in dicynodonts. She also has degrees from Oxford and a qualification in training and development.
She moved to Cambridge, and worked from 1998 to 2007 as an administrator at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College. From 2004-2007 she was Head of the Education Section in the Academic Division. She also worked with staff and undergraduates as a trainer for the national Springboard women's development programme.
In 2007 she left Cambridge to join the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education as Deputy Director (Audit). Her responsibilities included planning, co-ordinating and managing all operational activities for institutional audit and collaborative provision audit in England and Northern Ireland and overseas audit for the UK.
She left QAA in 2011 to pursue a career as an independent consultant in quality assurance of higher education. She specialises in developing and implementing systems for the assurance of quality of learning and teaching in Universities and Colleges in the UK and overseas. She regularly delivers training for review panel members, and serves on review panels. She has worked with various overseas quality assurance systems, including agencies in Malaysia, Pakistan, Oman, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Russian Federation, Armenia, Estonia, Lithuania and the UK.
Bibliography
Butcher GW, King GM and Dyke KGH (1976). Sensitivity of Staphylococcus aureus to unsaturated fatty acids. Journal of General Microbiology 94: 290-296.
King GM (1981). The functional anatomy of a Permian dicynodont. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B 291: 243-322.
King GM (1981). The postcranial skeleton of Robertia broomiana, an early dicynodont (Reptilia, Therapsida) from the South African Karoo. Annals of the South African Museum 84: 203-231.
King GM and Custance DRN (1982). Colour atlas of vertebrate anatomy: an integrated text and dissection guide. Blackwell, Oxford.
Cluver MA and King GM (1983). A reassessment of the relationships of Permian Dicynodontia (Reptilia, Therapsida) and a new classification of dicynodonts. Annals of the South African Museum 91: 195-273.
King GM (1983). First mammal-like reptile from Australia. Nature 306: 209.
King GM (1985). The postcranial skeleton of Kingoria nowacki (von Huene) (Therapsida, Dicynodontia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 84: 263-289.
King GM (1985). Evolution in the Museum. Oxford Magazine 2: 3-4.
King GM (1986). Distribution and diversity of dicynodonts: an introductory approach. Modern Geology 10: 109-20.
King GM (1988). Anomodontia. Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 17C: 1-174. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart.
Chancellor G, DiMauro A, Ingle R and King GM (1988). Charles Darwin's Beagle Collections in the Oxford University Museum. Archives of Natural History 15: 197-231.
King GM, Oelofsen BW and Rubidge BS (1989). The origin of the dicynodont feeding system. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 96: 185-211.
King GM (1990). The dicynodonts: a study in palaeobiology 1-225. Chapman and Hall Ltd., London.
King GM (1990). Life and death in the Permo Triassic: the fortunes of the dicynodont mammal-like reptiles. Sidney Haughton Memorial Lecture: 3: 1-17. Cape Town: South African Museum and Royal Society of South Africa.
King GM (1990). Dicynodonts and the end Permian event. Palaeontologia africana 27: 31-39.
King GM (1991). The aquatic Lystrosaurus: a palaeontological myth. Historical Biology 4: 305-321.
King GM and Cluver MA (1991). The aquatic Lystrosaurus: an alternative lifestyle. Historical Biology 4: 323-341.
Mazin J-M and King GM (1991). The first dicynodont from the Late Permian of Malagasy. Palaeontology 34(4): 837-842.
King GM (1991). Terrestrial tetrapods and the end Permian event: a comparison of analyses. Historical Biology 5: 239-255.
King GM (1992). Palaeobiogeography of Permian dicynodonts. Terra nova 4(6): 633-640.
King GM (1993). How many species of Diictodon were there? Annals of the South African Museum 102(9): 303-325.
King GM and Rubidge BS (1993). A taxonomic revision of small dicynodonts with postcanine teeth. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 107(2): 131-154.
King GM (1993). Species longevity and generic diversity in dicynodont mammal-like reptiles. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 102: 321-332.
King GM (1993). Ecology and biogeography of Triassic non-mammalian therapsids. Paleontologia Lombarda della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano. Nuova serie 2: 73-82.
King GM (1994). The early anomodont Venjukovia and the evolution of the anomodont skull. Journal of Zoology 232: 651-673.
King GM and Rubidge BS (1994). The postcranial skeleton of Eodicynodon. Palaeontology 37:397-408.
King GM (1996). Dicynodonts. Natural History 3/96:50-54.
King GM (1996). Reptiles and Herbivory. Chapman and Hall, London. 160pp.
King GM (1996). The postcranial skeleton of a baurioid therocephalian. Annals of the South African Museum. 104(11): 379-393.
King GM and Jenkins I (1997). The dicynodont Lystrosaurus: from the Upper Permian of Zambia: Evolutionary and stratigraphical implications. Palaeontology 40(1): 149-156.
King, G.M. (1998). Where did Lystrosaurus come from? Palaeontological Association of Southern Africa Conference 1998, Windhoek, Namibia. Abstracts: 13-14.
King, G.M. (2012). Handbook for the training of panel members for external quality assurance procedures. European Consortium for Accreditation in higher education. ECA Occasional Paper.