contributors

Deba Bardhan Correia is Dean of the Faculty of Business, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Buckingham

Justine Pedussel is the President of NUS Scotland

Bryony Humphries-Jennings is Director of Membership Services at Cardiff Met SU

Steve Pettifer is Vice-President (Academy) for BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester

Yolanda Cerda is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education and Executive Director of the Language Centre at the University of Leeds.

Bee Bond is Professor of English for Academic Purposes at the University of Leeds.

Kirsty Grainger is the Director of Research and Impact Services at the University of Bath

Sara de Sousa is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, leading on Student Success initiatives to reduce and eliminate awarding, continuation and progression gaps.

Josephine Gabi is a Reader and Co-Founder of The Collective at Manchester Metropolitan University, Lead Education Innovation Scholar for Closing the Racial Awarding Gap and Chair of the UK Racial Awarding Gap Network.

Gwenno Roberts is Llywydd UMCA for 2026–27

Annie McEntee is Wellbeing Officer at Sussex SU

Anna Yeadell is the founder of Scrib (scrib.works), an academic writing curriculum for higher education institutions. She has spent over 20 years editing academic books, journal articles, theses and papers, and has taught academic and professional writing at the University of Groningen. She is also a freelance translator from Dutch to English.

David Stockbridge is a lecturer in criminology at Leeds Trinity University.

Rachel Van Krimpen is Faculty Director of Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and People (Science) at the University of Nottingham

Radhika Sharma is a doctoral researcher at Heriot-Watt University

Sumeya Loonat is a Senior International Student Lecturer at Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University

Andy Dainty is Vice-Provost and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Education at Manchester Metropolitan University

Donna Whitehead is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Brighton

Abigail Morris is a Director at Public First

Kate Seymour is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainability at Manchester Metropolitan University