Gillian King

Gillian King has worked in teaching and research in paleontology, as Assistant Curator at the Zoological Collections at Oxford University Museum, and a Fellow and Tutor as , Oxford. She spent 15 years at Oxford and five years at the South African Museum in Cape Town, where she specialised in dicynodonts. She also has degrees from Oxford and a qualification in training and development.
She moved to Cambridge, and worked from 1998 to 2007 as an administrator at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College. From 2004-2007 she was Head of the Education Section in the Academic Division. She also worked with staff and undergraduates as a trainer for the national Springboard women's development programme.
In 2007 she left Cambridge to join the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education as Deputy Director (Audit).
Bibliography
* Butcher GW, King GM and Dyke KGH (1976). Sensitivity of Staphylococcus aureus to unsaturated fatty acids. Journal of General Microbiology 94: 290-296.
* King GM (1981). The functional anatomy of a Permian dicynodont. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B 291: 243-322.
* King GM (1981). The postcranial skeleton of Robertia broomiana, an early dicynodont (Reptilia, Therapsida) from the South African Karoo. Annals of the South African Museum 84: 203-231.
* King GM and Custance DRN (1982). Colour atlas of vertebrate anatomy: an integrated text and dissection guide. Blackwell, Oxford.
* King GM (1990). Life and death in the Permo Triassic: the fortunes of the dicynodont mammal-like reptiles. Sidney Haughton Memorial Lecture: 3: 1-17. Cape Town: South African Museum and Royal Society of South Africa.
* King GM (1991). The aquatic Lystrosaurus: a palaeontological myth. Historical Biology 4: 305-321.
* King GM (1991). Terrestrial tetrapods and the end Permian event: a comparison of analyses. Historical Biology 5: 239-255.
* King GM (1992). Palaeobiogeography of Permian dicynodonts. Terra nova 4(6): 633-640.
* King GM (1993). Ecology and biogeography of Triassic non-mammalian therapsids. Paleontologia Lombarda della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano. Nuova serie 2: 73-82.
* King GM (1994). The early anomodont Venjukovia and the evolution of the anomodont skull. Journal of Zoology 232: 651-673.
* King GM and Rubidge BS (1994). The postcranial skeleton of Eodicynodon. Palaeontology 37:397-408.
* King GM (1996). The postcranial skeleton of a baurioid therocephalian. Annals of the South African Museum. 104(11): 379-393.
* King GM and Jenkins I (1997). The dicynodont Lystrosaurus: from the Upper Permian of Zambia: Evolutionary and stratigraphical implications. Palaeontology 40(1): 149-156.
* King, G.M. (1998). Where did Lystrosaurus come from? Palaeontological Association of Southern Africa Conference 1998, Windhoek, Namibia. Abstracts: 13-14.
* King, G.M. (2012). Handbook for the training of panel members for external quality assurance procedures. European Consortium for Accreditation in higher education. ECA Occasional Paper.

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