contributors

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’.

Lorna is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Essex.

Alix Robertson is an Associate at CfEY. She started out as a secondary school English teacher and went on to work as a Senior Reporter for sister papers FE Week and Schools Week, winning awards for her education investigations. At CfEY her special interests are mental health and special educational needs and disabilities.

Tim Bradshaw is chief executive of the Russell Group.

Juergen Maier is the former chief executive of Siemens plc

Claire Warnes is Head of Education, Skills and Productivity at KPMG in the UK.

Dan Fow is London Manager at Sunderland Students’ Union

Claire Sosienki Smith is NUS Vice President Higher Education

Erica Ramos is Vice President Union Development at the National Union of Students

Lindsey Macmillan is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities at UCL Institute of Education.