contributors

Laura Cole is a final year PhD student at Bristol University studying neuroscience and psychology.

Tim Weiss is Director of Vocational Skills at ScreenSkills.

Mark Johnson is a Senior Business Partner in the Department for Strategic Change at the University of Liverpool.

Ben Elger is Chief Executive at the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA)

Michael Sanders is a Reader in Public Policy in the Policy Institute at King’s College London.

Dorothea Baltruks is senior policy and research officer at the Council of Deans of Health.

Nelly Kibirige is President at London South Bank Students Union

Eliza Kozman is Deputy Director (Research) at the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes (TASO).

Grace Gottlieb is Head of Research Policy at UCL

Shearer West is Vice Chancellor of the University of Nottingham

Jake Verity is President of the University of Sheffield Students’ Union

Beth Thompson is Head of UK & EU Policy at Wellcome

Daniel Sokol is the founder of Alpha Academic Appeals

Amy Irwin is an applied psychologist and lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. She is co-lead of the applied psychology and human factors research group and lead of the NTSAg agriculture research team.

David Spendlove is professor of education at the University of Manchester.

Andrew Hargreaves is co-founder of dataHE and former director of marketing and customer at UCAS.

Sanni Lehtinen was SYL (National Union of University Students in Finland) President in 2019

James Silcock is the Commercial Director of Co-Sector – University of London. He is responsible for driving the company’s business development.

Siobhan Morris is Head of Programmes for the Grand Challenges of Cultural Understanding and Justice & Equality at UCL

Olivia Stevenson leads UCL’s flagship initiative to support academic-policy engagement, is a co-founder of the Universities Policy Engagement Network and is one of the authors on the UCL-Resolution Foundation report ‘Structurally Unsound’.