contributors

Joe Holmes was VP Education at Essex SU 2024/25

Will Yates is a Senior Policy Manager in the education practice at Public First

Hailie Pentleton is a disabled student, practitioner, and policy officer at Disabled Students UK and the University of Glasgow

David Dada is Education Officer 24/25 at Brighton Students’ Union.

Francesca Plom works in Widening Participation & Access at the University of Kent

Marta Almeida Hill is Deputy Head of Outreach and WP at the University of Kent

Gino Graziano is Interim Executive Director of Student Life at the University of Southampton

Paul Blagburn is Head of Widening Participation and Social Mobility at the University of Warwick

Caitlin Hayes is Student Voice Coordinator at the University of Birmingham Guild of Student Union

Katharine A. M. Wright is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Newcastle University

Abigail Lewis is the Access and Participation Programme Coordinator at Durham Students’ Union

Prince Ikechi is President of Activities at the University of Sunderland Students’ Union

Kelly Prince is a Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response Consultant

Gail Archibald is Programme Team Leader, Digital Education in Practice at Arden University

Gracie Otley is Wellbeing Officer at The Union, MMU.

Thomas Perry is Associate Professor and Co-Director of Postgraduate Research in the School of Education at the University of Warwick

Sevda Ozsezer-Kurnuc is a policymaker at the Inspectorate Board of the Ministry of National Education in Türkiye and an affiliated research associate at the University of Glasgow

Jack is a warden in the residential and catering services division at the London School of Economics. He is also completing research on social enterprises and impact investing at LSE’s Marshall Institute.

Kamilya Suleymenova is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Birmingham

Emma Thirkell is a senior lecturer in Human Resource Management at Northumbria University