Dr Edd Pitt is a Reader in Higher Education at the University of Kent. Since 2004, he has worked extensively across a wide range of academic programmes, embedding innovative, evidence-informed approaches to improve assessment and feedback in higher education.
Edd’s sustained focus on enhancing teacher and student feedback literacy, dialogic feedback, and inclusive assessment practices has significantly shaped both institutional policy and international pedagogic discourse.
At the University of Kent, Edd has led institution-wide assessment and feedback change, spearheading the development of a new, principles-based assessment and feedback policy that foregrounds equity, transparency, and student agency. He has designed and led strategic interventions globally in authentic assessment, feedback literacy development, assessment design, and artificial intelligence, supporting thousands of educators and influencing practice across multiple disciplines. More locally, at the University of Kent, Edd has directly shaped curriculum design, aligning it with assessment and feedback processes, fairness, and inclusivity.
Edd’s research and practice have advanced the development of both teacher and student feedback literacy. His work enables educators to design and implement more impactful, dialogic, actionable, and inclusive feedback processes, while supporting students to understand and use feedback effectively in their learning. His array of co-authored publications, widely cited across the sector, are embedded in CPD programmes and curriculum redesign initiatives across the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, and mainland Europe.
Edd’s global impact is demonstrated through keynote invitations, visiting scholar roles, and consultancy with universities worldwide, where he supports institutions in transforming their assessment and feedback culture. He has shaped national sector policy through contributions to QAA and Advance HE guidance, and his leadership of international assessment and feedback networks continues to build collective capacity for pedagogic innovation and meaningful change.
Deeply committed to capacity-building, Edd mentors colleagues applying for Advance HE fellowships, supervises pedagogic research, and supports early-career academics to engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning. He is widely recognised for his ability to bridge research and practice, empowering educators to implement sustainable, student-centred change.
Edd’s work exemplifies principled, strategic leadership in assessment and feedback, making a sustained difference both locally and globally.