contributors

Catriona Hanks is Policy Researcher, Outward Student Mobility, and Universities UK International.

Alex Proudfoot is Chief Executive of Independent Higher Education, and a trustee of the UK Council for International Student Affairs.

Aidan Byrne works in higher education and Tweets and blogs as the Plashing Vole.

Leila Gouran is the European Projects Director (Enterprise) at Cardiff Metropolitan University.

Philip Plowden is Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Derby and was formerly a solicitor and barrister, specialising in human rights and public law.

Professor Rolf Tarrach is former President of the University of Luxembourg and former President of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

Andrew McRae is Dean of Postgraduate Research at the University of Exeter and was formerly Head of the English Department.

Nona worked as a Policy Assistant at Wonkhe.

Fleur Nielsen is Head of Policy at the Council of Deans of Health.

Mike Kerrigan is Head of Research and Insights (Access and Participation) at Nottingham Trent University.

David Bell is Vice Chancellor of the University of Sunderland.

Dinah Birch is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool, and a former pro-vice chancellor

Matt Sisson is Projects and Communications Manager at the British Universities Finance Directors Group.

Andrew Connolly is Chief Financial Officer at the University of Exeter.

Dan Cook is Head of Data Policy and Development at the Higher Education Statistics Agency.

Maike Halterbeck is an Associate Director at London Economics.

Nick Petford is University of Northampton’s Vice Chancellor.

Jonathan is policy adviser at Birkbeck, University of London. He writes here in a personal capacity.

Mary Curnock Cook is chair of Pearson Education, and a former chief executive of UCAS. She chaired the UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission

Jonathan White is Bargaining and Negotiations Official at the University and College Union.

Paul Curran is Professor Emeritus and former President of City, University of London, and former Chair of UCEA

Sunder Katwala is the director of British Future, a non-partisan thinktank that focuses on migration and identity. He is former general secretary of the Fabian Society.

David Sweeney is Executive Chair of Research England.

Martin Vogel is a founder director of Vogel Wakefield, which calls itself the counter-consultancy for leadership development. He was a former journalist and strategy advisor at the BBC.

Sally Hunt is General Secretary of the University and College Union (UCU).

Kirsty Williams is Cabinet Secretary for Education in the Welsh government and Liberal Democrat AM for Brecon and Radnorshire.

Professor Vicky Gunn is Head of Learning and Teaching at the Glasgow School of Art and former Director of the Learning and Teaching Centre at the University of Glasgow.

Robert McLaren is Head of Industry Technology and Innovation at Policy Connect

Dan Beynon is Head of Education at SMRS.

Simon Gaskell is Chair of the Quality Assurance Agency.

Chris Husbands is director at Higher Futures and former vice chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University

Stephanie Harris is a Policy Analyst at Universities UK

Claire Lynch is a Reader in English Literature at Brunel University London.

Sarah Davies is head of higher education and student experience at Jisc. She has worked in technology-enhanced learning for more than 20 year.

Professor Joy Carter is Vice Chancellor of the University of Winchester and Chair of GuildHE.

Rachel Brooks is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford and current President of the British Sociological Association

Neil Carmichael MP was the Member of Parliament for Stroud and Chair of the House of Commons Education Select Committee.

Richard Fisher is formerly Managing Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press. He now works as a non-executive with Edinburgh University Press and Yale University Press.

Jo Johnson is President’s Professorial Fellow at King’s College, London.

Claire Reddleman is an academic and photographic artist and received her PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Graham Galbraith is Vice Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth.

Sally Holt is the Policy Officer at The Brilliant Club

Alistair Fitt is Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University and is Research Lead for University Alliance.

Mark Atlay is Director of Academic Development at the University of Bedfordshire and a trustee of SEEC.

Rachel Hewitt is Chief Executive at MillionPlus

Pooja was a Policy Assistant at Wonkhe.

Daisy is Head of Policy and Innovation at the Chartered Management Institute

Tom Yazdi is Senior Consultant at Linstock Communications.

Katie is Director of Quality and Standards at the University of Chichester.

Raegan Hiles leads Universities UK International’s work on transnational education (TNE). She heads up the HEGlobal programme, a joint initiative between UUKi and the British Council to empower UK universities’ transnational education activity.

Christina Slade is Vice Chancellor of Bath Spa University.

Tony Strike is University Secretary at the University of Sheffield and a Board Member at AHUA

Catherine is a former Executive Officer at Wonkhe.

Susannah Doyle works for Unite Students as a Student Services Manager.

Alastair Robertson is Dean of Teaching and Learning at Abertay University.

Anna Bull is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Social Justice at the University of York and a founding member of The 1752 Group

Lynne Condell manages the money advice team at the Liverpool John Moores University, is a former chair of NASMA, and in 2013 was awarded an MBE for services to higher education.

Jon Bennett is Director at Linstock Communications.

Joel Mullan has worked in HE policy and strategy roles for organisations including the HE Commission, 1994 Group and Jisc.

Judy Friedberg is a former universities editor of The Guardian.

John Blanshard is Student Experience Director for Unite Students

Will Cooling has ten years of experience within higher education policy and is also a freelance writer.

Claire is Head of Uni@Work, part of Coventry University Group. Uni@Work is a national provider of Higher Education in the workplace.

John Thompson has written widely on higher education policy, including a series of reports on the Browne Review and what followed for the Higher Education Policy Institute. More recently he has written about the 2015 Summer Budget HE proposals for the Sutton Trust.

Professor Angus Laing is Dean at Lancaster University Management School and former Chair of the Association of Business Schools.

Simon Kerridge is Director of Research Services at the University of Kent and former chair of the Association of Research Managers and Administrators.

Dr Sonal Minocha is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement) at Bournemouth University.

Toni Pearce was President of the National Union of Students from 2013 to 2015.

Kate Little works in student support at the University of Liverpool and is a former policy lead for NSS at the National Union of Students. Her views are her own.

Paul Kirby is Lecturer in International Security at the University of Sussex and incoming Research Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. He is also the author of a short guide to ‘Open Access in the Social Sciences’.

Craig Berry is deputy director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Sheffield. He worked previously at HM Treasury, the International Longevity Centre-UK, the Trades Union Congress and the University of Warwick.

Katie Britton is formerly Policy Officer, Middle East and Africa, at UUK International.

Dominic Abrams is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Kent. He is Director of the Centre for the Study of Group Processes and UK Chair of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI-UK).

Dr Helen Barefoot is Deputy Director of the Learning and Teaching Innovation Centre (LTIC) at the University of Hertfordshire.

Nona McDuff is Director of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at Kingston University.

Professor Jacqueline Stevenson is Professor of Education Research and Head of Research in the Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University.

Martin is Dean of Music, Humanities and Media and Professor of History at the University of Huddersfield.

Jane is the Vice-Chancellor’s Policy Adviser at Bournemouth University.

Dr Geoff Stoakes is Head of Special Projects at the Higher Education Academy.

Joy Elliott-Bowman is Director of Policy and Development for Independent Higher Education UK.

Alex Pool is a PhD student at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary, University of London and former QAA Board member.

Dr Benedict Wilkinson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Policy Institute at King’s.

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Ant Bagshaw is a Senior Advisor in L.E.K. Consulting’s Global Education Practice and co-editor, with Debbie McVitty, of Influencing Higher Education Policy

Dean is an associate member of staff at UCL.

Phil is Chief Innovation Officer at Jisc.

Ben Jordan is Director of Strategy at UCAS

Tom Frostick is Policy & Programmes Manager at University Alliance, with responsibility for research, innovation and international policy.

David Relph is Director of Bristol Health Partners, a strategic collaboration between the city’s three NHS trusts, three clinical commissioning groups, two universities and its local authority.

Gareth Rees is a Research Professor in the Cardiff School of Social Sciences and Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Eric Bohms is Managing Director at Electric Paper Ltd.

Colin Raban is an emeritus professor of the University of Derby and was recently employed as Interim Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Greenwich.

Kalwant Bhopal is Professor of Education and Social Justice at the University of Southampton.

Sarbani Banerjee is Acting Head of Learning and Teaching at HEFCE.

Hannah Brian is Deputy Chief Executive (Student Engagement) at Leeds University Union

Ellen is Senior Policy Adviser at the Equality Challenge Unit.

Dr Camille B. Kandiko Howson is Associate Professor of Education at Imperial College London

Vivienne Stern is Chief Executive of Universities UK

Deirdre Heenan is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Comms) and Provost (Coleraine & Magee) at Ulster University