Staff

Fiona Howard, Course Director, has specialist knowledge and experience of working on Level 3 fashion courses and working with international students. Fiona is also a graduate herself from London College of Fashion. Fiona has worked across a wide range of areas in the fashion industry including having her own label, freelance work and employed as head designer for womenswear design companies that supplied high street stores such as Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Harvey Nichols. Fiona also has experience with textile manufacturers and the film and theatre costume industry.

Carlyn McGuire is a Senior Lecturer and the Design Pathway lead. She is a graduate from Central Saint Martins and has been teaching fashion design development and fashion media at London College of Fashion since 2016. Carlyn has many years teaching experience, working across colleges and universities in London. She is currently a lecturer on the International Introduction to the Study of Fashion, teaching Fashion Design and multi discipline pathways, as well as visual studies throughout the course.

Sarah Batho is a Senior Lecturer and the Business Pathway lead. Having graduated with a degree in Printed Textile Design, she spent most of her career working as a buyer for several UK high street companies including the Arcadia group. She has now been teaching at UAL since 2018 where she combines an in-depth working knowledge and creative passion for the subject. She introduces students to a broad range of business-related topics, ensuring all are fully prepared for onward undergraduate progression study. Completing both a PG Cert and a MA in Academic Practice.

Janice Sare is a Senior Lecturer in Academic Skills and Language Acquisition and leads the unit for Academic Communication. She travelled extensively after finishing university including to countries in both Asia and Latin America. She became an English language teacher in 2007 and worked in private language schools as well as briefly in a university in Japan for the following 9 years. In 2015, she graduated from the Institute of Education at UCL with a Master's in teaching. Janice joined IISF in 2016 teaching Academic Skills alongside English language for the students who need to improve their language scores.

Mark Quincey is an Academic Skills and English Language tutor. He holds a DELTA (Diploma in English Language Teaching) and MBA.He started teaching in the early 2000s, first in his hometown in Oxfordshire, then later at schools and universities in China, Thailand and Japan. He settled in London in 2008 and began working for IELTS as well as private language schools. Here, he prepared and taught bespoke language courses for both international professionals from various fields and those preparing for university entrance exams and study. Mark joined IISF when it began in 2014 and works with the students to help ensure their academic and language skills are sufficient to meet the needs of their studies on this course and their future BA studies.

Andrew Baker is an Academic Language and Language Acquisition Skills Lecturer. He started teaching in 2012, supporting students in General English and international exam preparation. Andrew later worked for the British Council in Paris designing programmes for various levels, prior to joining the UAL Language Centre in 2018. In 2021, he became a permanent member of the IISF team, where he works on Academic Communication. Andrew has studied French at L’Institut Francais and holds an English Language teaching qualification from UCL, with an MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature from Birkbeck.

Sing Hang Tam is a Lecturer in Digital Creative Skills. He runs the Creative Suite unit. He holds an MA in Sculpture and an MRes in Arts and Humanities from the Royal College of Art; and has a PG Cert. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art, focusing on social justice and identities. He is actively involved in postgraduate research, academic publishing, and international conferences, further contributing to discourse in art and design.

Suzanne Beirne is a lecturer and set designer based in London with over 20 years experience working in industry with a multidisciplinary approach her specialism is within media, image making and visual communication.