Author
Kate Ayres
Kate Ayres is a Chartered Management Accountant (CIMA) with a DBA from Durham University, where her research explored market niches and widening participation in UK HE through organisational ecology using quantitative methods. She has worked across finance, academic, and project management roles in UK higher education, including positions at Durham University and the University of Oxford.
Kate currently serves as an Academic Mentor on the Senior Leaders Apprenticeship at Durham University Business School. Her work brings together analytical insight, organisational experience, and a commitment to improving HE culture. She also co-manages and sings with the Durham University Staff Chamber Choir, which she founded.
2 pieces
Newest first, since June 2023
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Workplace wellbeing and the power of singing together
Kate Ayres’ experience of setting up a university choir showed her that staff wellbeing initiatives are most effective when they are co-produced
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Higher education would be most effective as a collective
Kate Ayres argues that universities identifying and accepting their niches would improve decision making, reduce admin, and make their staff healthier and happier