Boss with a rainbow icon and passion for pronouns
THE Quality Assurance Agency is led by Vicki Stott, who took over as chief executive last year.
She appears to have social causes close to her heart and has played a campaigning role in previous jobs. She worked at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where she was bursar and listed as an ‘LGBT+ ally’ as part of the ‘Equality and Diversity Unit’.
She said at the time: ‘I wanted to be an ally because I feel passionately that we should all be able to be exactly whoever we are, no matter where we are.
‘I want our students to feel safe and supported, no matter how they identify, and I want our staff to feel that they are valued, no matter who they are.’
On her Twitter profile, she is open about the causes she sympathises with – by displaying an LGBT+ rainbow icon and declaring her pronouns as ‘she/her’.
She has also retweeted a thread critical of Cecil Rhodes, the 19th-century imperialist whose statue students have tried to have removed at Oxford University. Previously she worked at Birmingham, Warwick and Manchester universities, following experience in the commercial and charity sectors.