Topic: Sports, leisure, & health
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26 February, 2020Judith Batchelar OBE
Judith is a Biochemist, nutritionist, has an Honorary Doctorate in Agriculture from Harper Adams University, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST), the Royal Society of Arts and Manufactures (RSA) and a liveryman at The Worshipful Company of Butchers. Judith started her career in pharmaceuticals and teaching before finding […]
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Sir Brendan Barber
Sir Brendan Barber was appointed as the Chair of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) commencing January 2014. He was the General Secretary of the TUC from 2003 to 2012 having first joined the TUC in 1975. He is a member of the Banking Standards Board, the Board of Transport for London and of […]
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Maria Balshaw
Maria Balshaw is Director of Tate, a role she has held since June 2017. She has overall responsibility for Tate’s strategic direction and day to day operations. As Director, Maria is also the Accounting Officer appointed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Previously, as Director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester […]
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Peter Ayton
I am a professor of psychology at City University where I have been since 1992. My research analyses human judgement, risk perception and decision-making. This covers a huge range of subjects – including gambling, attitudes to health and safety, people’s beliefs about luck & happiness and why they find decisions difficult. I have edited or […]
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Rachel Bacon
Rachel joined Northumbria Police in June 2017 as Assistant Chief Constable and is responsible for Citizens Focus which includes Custody, Criminal Justice and Safeguarding. Rachel was previously Head of Crime for Sussex Police and has specialised as a Detective during her career. Her portfolio included intelligence; organised crime; cyber and economic crime. Rachel is a […]
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Phil Attfield
Phil Attfield is a Visual Effects (VFX) industry professional with more than 25 years experience in VFX as an artist, entrepreneur and educator. In 2000, Phil cofounded the VFX boutique Men-from-Mars, based at Ealing Studios. He was nominated for BAFTA and Emmy awards for work on the Hornblower TV mini-series between 2000 and 2002. In […]
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Robert Arnott
Robert Arnott is Director of Strategy, Social Mobility and Disadvantage at the Department of Education and is also Chair of Trustees of the Cardinal Hume Centre. Following a PhD and research fellowships in neuroscience, Robert has held a series of increasingly senior civil service appointments, in the Home Office and the Cabinet Office and now […]
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Syima Aslam
Syima Aslam is the founder and Director of the Bradford Literature Festival (BLF), which she established in 2014. A 10-day literary and cultural celebration, BLF welcomes more than 70,000 visitors to Bradford annually and is celebrated as the most socio-economically and ethnically diverse literary festival in the UK. Under Syima’s directorship, BLF has made a […]
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Dame Mary Archer
Dame Mary read chemistry at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and went on to do her PhD at Imperial College, London, followed by post-doctoral fellowships at Oxford and The Royal Institution, London, where she developed her longstanding research interest in physico-chemical aspects of solar energy conversion. She then taught chemistry for ten years for Newnham and […]
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Gisela Abbam, FRSA, MBA
Gisela is the Chair of the General Pharmaceutical Council, and a Senior Director for Government Affairs at PerkinElmer. She is the former Chair of the British Science Association and also serves on the Boards of Everywoman Ltd and Briyah Institute, USA. Gisela is the Founder and former Managing Director of OTGA Management Consultancy. She serves […]