Topic: Art, media & communications
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7 December, 2020Adam Strudwick
I’ve spent the last 15 years working in the global design industry creating spaces and places that engage individuals and support business. I’ve been lucky enough to work with future thinking organisations like Google and Microsoft to help them develop solutions that support how they want their staff to work now and to understand what […]
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6 November, 2020Louisa Moreton
I have worked in employee engagement and change communications for almost 20 years. My role is to support organisations going through change so that it is successful, by focusing on the people who work for that company. In short, companies with highly engaged employees are more successful. I studied languages at Edinburgh University, still unsure […]
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23 September, 2020
Mark Russell
Mark is Chief Executive of The Children’s Society and leads a team of 850 staff and 10,000 volunteers working to support some of the most vulnerable children in the country. He is committed to disrupting the disadvantage that many of our children and young people face today and has a passion and determination to protect, […]
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7 September, 2020
Flora MacLeod
Flora is a Design Lead at IBM iX, IBM’s digital consultancy. On completion of a degree in User Centred Design, incorporating internships at both IBM and TomTom, she began working at IBM as a UX Design Consultant on the graduate scheme. Since then, she has worked with a variety of clients across banking, logistics and […]
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18 August, 2020
Lord Clive Soley
Clive Soley is a Parliamentarian with 40 years’ experience – 26 as an MP and 14 as a Member of the House of Lords. Elected Labour MP for Hammersmith North 1979-1983; for Hammersmith 1983-1997; and for Ealing, Acton and Shepherds Bush 1997-2005. Member of the House of Lords from July 2005 and still an active […]
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Stephanie Calman
Stephanie is the author of seven books including the Top Ten Bestseller Confessions of a Bad Mother. She published her first book, Gentlemen Prefer My Sister, at 23. Her TV show Dressing for Breakfast got over three million viewers and ran to three series, making Stephanie the third British female – after Carla Lane and […]
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6 August, 2020Piers Leigh
Piers Leigh is a London and Bristol-based Director of Photography whose work regularly takes him all over the world. Piers has shot drama, docu-drama, short films, idents, trails and viral campaigns as well as high-end documentaries for both UK and US broadcasters. He has filmed in over 60 countries and in every environment on the […]
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13 March, 2020Stephanie Hilborne OBE
Stephanie Hilborne OBE has worked in the environment sector for her whole career and is passionate about leaving the planet in a better state for future generations. She is currently Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trusts, a movement of more than 830,000 members, 45,000 volunteers with an exceptional reach into communities across the UK. She […]
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Evelyn Welch
Professor Welch graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Renaissance History and Literature (Magna cum Laude), and received her PhD from the Warburg Institute, University of London. She has taught at the Universities of Essex, Birkbeck, Sussex and Queen Mary, University of London, where she served as Dean of Arts and Vice-Principal for Research […]
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6 March, 2020
Professor Dawn Ades CBE FBA
Taught History and Theory of Art at the University of Essex from 1968-2008. Since retirement continues to organise exhibitions and write about art. Specialises in 20th century art, Dada and Surrealism, Latin American and Pre-Columbian art, history of photography, with a particular interest in the work of women artists. Curator of a number of major […]