| Professor Anne Carlisle, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, Falmouth University
Professor Carlisle joined Falmouth University as Vice-Chancellor & Chief Executive in 2009. Since then, the University has gone through a period of major expansion and is one of the fastest growing universities in the UK having secured full university title in 2012. Falmouth University is a key driver in Cornwall’s economic regeneration and it won the Entrepreneurship Award in the 2017 Guardian Awards for its ground-breaking LAUNCHPAD programme, which Professor Carlisle founded. This programme takes graduate talent and builds new, high-growth tech companies to market demand in partnership with industry. Professor Carlisle received a first-class honours degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster, an MA from University of the Arts London and co-founded CIRCA publications before starting her academic career. Prior to joining Falmouth University, Professor Carlisle was Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Wales in Newport where she led research and innovation. Professor Carlisle received the award of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the New Year Honours list 2019.
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| Marc Lintern, Director of Student Experience, Newcastle University
Marc Lintern is Director of Student Experience at Newcastle University. As a key part of this role, Marc has managed the Careers Service at Newcastle since January 2013, and was previously Head of Employability at Plymouth University for fourteen years. Marc has also been a Board Director for AGCAS from 2010-2016, serving as Treasurer.
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| Jeremy Lamri, Head of Innovation, Research & Prospective, JobTeaser
Entrepreneur, researcher, government advisor, public speaker and teacher, Jérémy Lamri will share his expertise in soft skills and performance at the UUK Employability and Skills Conference.
Having studied at University of Oxford and HEC, Paris, Jérémy is currently completing a PhD in cognitive science at Paris Descartes on 21st Century Skills, with the ambition to better understand what makes humans adaptable and unique, in a world where machines seem to have the ability to outperform us in the future.
Now appointed Head of Innovation, Research and Prospective at JobTeaser, he intends to use these experiences to help reach the companies ambitious social mission: youth employability and empowerment.
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| Greg Wade, Policy Manager, Universities UK
Greg Wade is a policy manager at Universities UK leading on Innovation, growth, employability and skills. This work includes the Higher Education Innovation Fund, the economic impact of universities, English devolution and local growth, supply and demand for graduates and degree apprenticeships. During his career at Universities UK Greg has led policy in areas such as leadership, management and governance, teaching and learning, teacher education and better regulation.
Before joining us Greg worked as a policy adviser in the predecessor to GuildHE, the Standing Conference of Principles leading on areas that included quality, estates, human resources and international issues.
Greg started his career as a quality assurance officer at the University of Surrey where for seven years he was involved in administering external examining reports, internal course validation and external accreditation as well as servicing numerous university and faculty committees and managing audit and quality assessment visits. Greg also supported the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) submission. Greg was an audit secretary for five institutional quality audit visits.
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| Emma Moore, Director of Careers & Employability, University of Liverpool
Emma Moore is Director of Careers & Employability at the University of Liverpool. In 2018 Emma re-imagined careers and employability delivery at Liverpool, opening the UK’s first Career Studio - a peer to peer, experiential delivery space run by students, for students empowered by careers professionals. At a national level Emma sits on the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) Community Committee and the Institute of Student Employers (ISE) Research Group.
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| Adrian Wootton OBE, Chief Executive, Film London and the British Film Comission
Adrian Wootton OBE is the Chief Executive of Film London, the agency charged with developing the screen industries in the capital, and the British Film Commission, the unit responsible for promoting the UK as the best place to produce feature films and high end television.
Prior to becoming the Chief Executive of Film London in 2003, Adrian was Acting Director of the British Film Institute (BFI), in addition to having been the Director of the London Film Festival (LFF), the National Film Theatre (NFT), Head of BFI Exhibition and Director of the crime and mystery film festival, Crime Scene. Before his appointment to the BFI, he was founding Director of Broadway Media Centre in Nottingham and Director of the Bradford Playhouse & Film Theatre.
Adrian also serves as Visiting Professor of Film and Media at Norwich University of the Arts and Alumni Guest Lecturer at the University of East Anglia.
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| Harry Anderson, Senior Policy Adviser (Higher and Further Education), CBI
Harry leads the CBI’s work across the higher and further education sectors ensuring universities and colleges are at the heart of the policy and decision-making at the UK’s most influential business organisation. He has led the CBI’s work across a number of different policy areas including: post-18 education and funding, increasing access to higher technical education, and developing more flexible learning opportunities. Prior to the CBI, he studied for an MSc at LSE having completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Liverpool.
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| David Eade, Director of Employability, Nottingham Trent University
At NTU employability is a centralised service supporting 30,000 students across 4 campuses; David manages a large team delivering career development interventions and thousands of work experiences to enable students to successfully transition into graduate employment. David’s background is in Human Resources Management and he has many years experience across the electricity supply industry, automotive manufacturing and telecommunications sectors and prior to joining NTU he led a successful recruitment business specialising in the engineering and technology sectors. David is a business coach and has a Masters degree in Coaching and Behavioural Change, his research interests focus on the development of self-efficacy and resilience.
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| Harriet Barnes, Head of Policy, Higher Education and Skills, The British Academy
Harriet Barnes is Head of Policy (Higher Education and Skills) at the British Academy, where she leads the Academy’s work as the voice for the humanities and social sciences in the development of education and research policy. She previously worked for the Quality Assurance Agency, where she was closely involved in the developing the UK Quality Code, and for the University of Bedfordshire.
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| Dr Charlie Ball, Higher Education Intelligence, Graduate Prospects
Dr Charlie Ball is the Head of Higher Education Intelligence at Graduate Prospects, the sector agency charged with the support of higher education careers and employability provision, and where he is the specialist on UK graduate employment and the skilled jobs market.
Charlie is a member of steering groups for AGCAS, HESA, the Institute of Student Employers and the Office of National Statistics and is a Fellow of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC). Charlie’s current research interests include the national Standard Occupational Classification system, regional labour markets, graduate migration and graduate occupational shortages. You can follow him on Twitter @lmicharlie
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| Dr. Graham Herries, Co-chair, Education and Skills Panel, Instution of Engineering and Technology
Dr Graham Herries is Director of Digital Technologies in the Engineering Excellence Group at Laing O'Rourke. This role provides the executive leadership for the ongoing strategic digital transformation of Laing O’Rourke. He leads innovation through adoption of cross sector technologies to both manufacturing and construction site operations. Graham is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IET and APMP qualified. Graham is co-chair of the Education and Skills Panel at The Institution of Engineering and Technology, where he supports the education and skills agenda to address matters of policy, and public concern from the perspective of the IET.
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