Richard’s Career
| Dates | Main Roles | Organisation |
| 2015- | Managing Director | Richard Blackwell & Associates Ltd |
| 2010- 15 | Deputy Vice-Chancellor | Solent University, Southampton |
| 2003- 10 | Regional Consultant, Head of Learning and Teaching, Assurance Consultant | Higher Education Funding Council for England |
| 2000- 03 | Senior Adviser | Learning and Teaching Support Network (now Advance HE) |
| 1991- 2000 | Director of Staff Development | University of Nottingham |
| 1985- 90 | Senior Lecturer, Business School | Coventry Polytechnic (now University) |
| 1980- 84 | ESRC Contract Research Officer (Staff Relations in the Civil Service and Trade Union Ballots) | Royal Inst. of Public Admin. London & Green Templeton College, University of Oxford |