Dr David Baume is a higher education consultant, working in UK and internationally. His consultancy and development work has focused on student progress files; course and programme design; assessment strategies for a nursing programme; mentoring; project and programme evaluation; university teaching awards; university leadership development; preparing case studies on personal tutoring and learning and teaching innovations; developing the employability of students; staff development for part-time teachers; staff development for enquiry-based learning; and the development and accreditation of tutors and lecturers.

His research and publication have concerned the assessment of portfolios produced on a course in teaching in higher education; evaluation; and personal development planning and progress files.

He has long believed in the great importance of outcome-based education. His first publication on outcome-based education, a short book, was published in 1973.

Previously Dr Baume was Director of the Centre for Higher Education Practice at the Open University, UK. There, he led production of courses on teaching in higher education. He was also a founding member of the National Coordination Team for the HEFCE Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund, where he supported many large educational development projects across England.

Dr Baume taught in higher education for 20 years before becoming a staff and educational developer. He was founding chair of the UK Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) from 1990 to 1995, a founder of the UK Heads of Educational Development Group (HEDG), and a founding editor of the International Journal for Academic Development (IJAD). He has recently co-edited three books on staff and educational development, and is developing a fourth. He was an elected member of the Council and the Accreditation Committee of the UK Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILTHE). He reviews papers, books and book proposals for journals, conferences and publishers.

Dr Baume holds Fellowship of the Staff and Educational Development Association. His doctorate is in educational development in higher education.