Mychelle Pride

Mychelle is the Academic Lead for Access, Participation and Success in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies. With more than twenty years’ experience in higher education, Mychelle’s work has focused on enabling students to achieve to the best of their abilities and student empowerment. Prior to joining the OU, Mychelle worked as an Assistant Director at the UK’s Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education specialising in teaching excellence, student engagement and quality assurance and enhancement methods. Her areas of scholarship interest are student success, student mental health, and scholarly co-creation. A perpetual student, Mychelle has an MA in Slavic Linguistics, an MA in Social Science Research Methods and an MSc in Mental Health Science. In October, Mychelle started her PhD in Psychology, researching success for students with mental health conditions.

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