Dr. Miri Firth

Dr. Miri Firth is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester, and Chair of the AGCAS Creative Industries Task Group. A Principal Fellow of Advance HE, she is nationally recognised for leading the UK’s new framework on flexible assessment with QAA and for consulting on employability policy with HESA, GuildHE, and AGCAS.

Miri has delivered invited keynotes for OECD, Jisc, Advance HE, Times Higher Education, and international conferences including LEARN (Riyadh). She was Highly Commended at the 2025 PIEoneer Awards for International Leadership in Education and is author of sector-leading textbooks on employability and service encounters. Her work bridges policy, practice, and pedagogy to shape global conversations on assessment and graduate employability.