| Professor Steve West, Vice-Chancellor, President and Chief Executive Officer, University of the West of EnglandProfessor Steve West CBE, DL is Vice-Chancellor, President and CEO of the University of the West of England, Bristol. He is Non-Executive Director for the Office for Students and Chair of the UUK Mental Health in Higher Education Working Group.
He is Chair of the West of England LEP, Chair of the West of England Academic Health Science Network and Non-Executive Director for the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor West is a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Gloucestershire and was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2017, for services to Higher Education.
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| Alan Davies, Innovative Programmes and Partnerships Director, Health Education EnglandAlans responsibility at Health Education England is to establish and build collaborative partnerships focused on shared areas of work between the AHSN network and Health Education England. These are focused in the first instance on the HEE Star & Workforce Transformation, Digital Readiness, Patient Safety, Technology Enhanced Learning, Library Knowledge Services and Genomics.
Prior to joining Heath Education England, Alan was the Director of Digital Health for the Innovation Agency AHSN; he led on strategic digital themes across the AHSN Network and was a member of steering groups for high profile pieces of work including the NHS multiagency Empower The Person steering group and the Topol review. Alan’s preceding roles to joining the Innovation Agency include strategic exec directorship roles in the multinational MedTech / assistive technology industry (Philips & Tunstall Healthcare) and prior to that had a long career in multinational management consultancy (Partner PA Consulting, PwC and Gemini Consulting).
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| Anne Marie Graham, Chief Executive, UKCISAAnne Marie joined UKCISA in 2019 from the Association of Commonwealth Universities, where she was Director of Chevening, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s flagship global scholarship scheme. Prior to that, Anne Marie has led on a range of educational programmes and projects promoting international mobility and intercultural exchange.
At Universities UK International, she developed the first government-funded UK Strategy for Outward Mobility, and established the Go International programme to build capacity and influence institutional change in UK universities to increase the proportion of UK domiciled students with international experience.
Before moving into the education sector, Anne Marie spent several years in the language services industry managing high profile accounts with multinational engineering and pharmaceutical companies.
Anne Marie is a linguist, with a first degree in Modern Languages from Anglia Ruskin University and a postgraduate translation qualification from University of Westminster.
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| Andrew Berrie, Head of Workplace Wellbeing Programmes (Delivery), Mind Andrew Berrie is the Head of Workplace Wellbeing Programmes at Mind, the mental health charity. He leads the Mentally Healthy Universities Programme. Time to Change Employers Programme, Blue Light Programme and Workplace Wellbeing Content Team.
Time to Change is the UK's foremost campaign looking to change the way people think and act about mental health, ending mental health stigma and discrimination. To date over 1600 organisations, employing over 4 million persons have taken the Time to Change Employer Pledge. This includes a number of higher education institutions.
Prior to his role at Mind, he was Marketing & Communications Manager at the University of Northampton Students’ Union.
He is passionate about working with organisations to develop their wellbeing and mental health programmes, campaigns and initiatives and the role of communications as a catalyst for social change.
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| Professor Sir Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
Cary L. Cooper is the 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He is a founding President of the British Academy of Management, President of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), former President of RELATE and President of the Institute of Welfare. He was the Founding Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, former Editor of the scholarly journal Stress and Health and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management, now in its’ 3rd Edition. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation, ILO, and EU in the field of occupational health and wellbeing, was Chair of the Global Agenda Council on Chronic Disease of the World Economic Forum (2009-2010) (then served for 5 years on the Global Agenda Council for mental health of the WEF) and was Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences 2009-2015. Professor Cooper is the Chair of the National Forum for Health & Wellbeing at Work (comprised of 40 global companies eg BP, Microsoft, NHS Executive, UK government, Rolls Royce, John Lewis Partnership, etc>). Professor Cooper is the author/editor of over 250 books in the field of occupational health psychology, workplace wellbeing, women at work and occupational stress. He was awarded the CBE by the Queen in for his contributions to occupational health; and in 2014 he was awarded a Knighthood for his contribution to the social sciences.
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| Professor Simon Gregory, Deputy Medical Director for Primary and Integrated Care, Health Education EnglandSimon is HEE’s Deputy Medical Director (Primary and Integrated Care) with responsibility for GP/ Primary Care, Dentistry, Mental Health and Wellbeing. He was previously Director and Dean of Education and Quality (DEQ), Health Education England (HEE), Midlands and East and HEE Lead for Primary Care, prior to that the Postgraduate Dean East of England and before that GP Dean, East Midlands.
Simon is a GP at King Edward Road Surgery, Northampton and chairs the Royal College of General Practitioners Committee on Medical Ethics also serving as a College Trustee and Council member.
He is Honorary Professor at Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia (UEA) and Visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), and a Fellow of Homerton College Cambridge. In this latter role he also chairs the University of Cambridge, East of England Military Education Committee on behalf of the Vice Chancellor.
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| Dr Dominique Thompson, Founder, Buzz ConsultingDominique is an award-winning GP, young people's mental health expert, TEDx speaker, author and educator, with over 20 years of clinical experience caring for students. She was named Bristol Healthcare Professional of the Year in 2017.
She is author of The Student Wellbeing Series (Trigger Press), a short series of guides for young people aged 16-25 about mental health, wellbeing and life at university, and co-author of How to Grow a Grown Up (PenguinRandomHouse), a book for parents, carers, teachers and anyone working with young people, about raising independent and resilient young adults ready for the challenges of the 21st century.
She is also a chapter author of Student Mental Health & Wellbeing in Higher Education: A practical guide (Sage). Dom is a Clinical Advisor for NICE, the Royal College of GPs, the Anorexia Bulimia Care charity, and for Student Minds, the UK's student mental health charity.
Dom is lead clinical advisor for online course Bring Well, Living Well produced by Epigeum (OUP).
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| Chloe Tear, Disability Blogger and Freelance WriterChloe Tear is a 22-years-old disability blogger and freelance writer. She graduated from Leeds Trinity with a First Class Honours degree in Psychology and Child Development in 2019. Whilst at university she was the Disabilities’ Officer for the Students Union and built up a portfolio of freelance work alongside her studies. Currently, she works within the charity sector as a forum moderator, with a particular interest in content creation.
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