Speakers
Dr Richard
Armour has 27 years experience in HE administration. He is
currently the Senior Adviser at Hong Kong University of Science
& Technology (HKUST). Previously he had been Registrar of the
Open University of Hong Kong, following a period as Director of
Academic Planning at the City University of Hong Kong. He was also
Director and Principal Investigator for a large-scale project
evaluating student experience in the region. Before going to Hong
Kong in 1992, Richard worked in administrative posts in Queen
Margaret University College and the University of Strathclyde.
Her own work includes specialist education advice for HE including
disputes between institutions and their collaborative partners both
in the UK and overseas, human rights challenges to the decisions of
public bodies, student claims based on breach of contract,
discrimination and negligence, as well as judicial review. She
provides advocacy and representation for institutions in internal
student disciplinary and complaints hearings. Smita also advises on
health & safety matters, including dealing with and attending
interviews of staff under caution by the Health & Safety
Executive. Smita qualified as a lawyer at Martineau in January
1996.
Lawrie Phipps is
a Programme Manager with JISC, the Joint Information Systems
Committee. His current portfolio includes approximately 45 projects
covering a range of issues in higher education including green
issues, learning and teaching, research and administration. He also
manages a series of projects that have looked at the use of social
networking and web 2.0 tools and how they can be exploited for
education.
Stuart Ward has
been a Director of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council since 1999, with responsibility for human,
financial, operational and performance management.
He has been involved in the RCUK Shared Services Centre since the
project originated and currently is Deputy SRO.Mr Ward has been
involved in the development and implementation of full economic
costing for research and was a member of the two recent RCUK
reviews of fEC.
James
Wilsdon became Director of the Science Policy Centre at
the Royal Society in September 2008, and coordinates the
Society's UK and international policy work. From 2001 to 2008,
James worked at the think tank Demos, first as Head of Strategy,
then as Head of Science and Innovation. He was also Director of
'The Atlas of Ideas' project, which explored the changing
geography of science and innovation in Asia, Africa, Latin America
and the Middle East. He has researched and published widely on
science and innovation policy, sustainable development, emerging
technologies and the globalisation of research.
From 1997 to 2001, he was Senior Policy Adviser at the sustainability charity Forum for the Future. He has a first-class degree in philosophy and theology from Oxford University and a doctorate in technology policy from Middlesex University. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Lancaster University, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, a Trustee of People and Planet, and a member of the RCUK Advisory Panel on Public Engagement with Research.
James is an experienced public speaker and has written for a variety of publications, including The Financial Times, The Guardian, Times Higher Education, SEED, China Daily, OpenDemocracy and Green Futures.
Further information about James can be found at http://royalsociety.org/General_WF.aspx?pageid=4294972197&terms=james+wilsdon&fragment=&SearchType=&terms=james
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