The University Council
Council membership 2012-13
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External members
Mr David Boyle
David
Boyle's working career began with seventeen years in Morgan Grenfell, the
merchant bank, initially in corporate advisory work, with spells in
Australia and Scotland, and subsequently in investment management. He then
moved to what became Mercury Asset Management, where he spent nearly fifteen
years, managing pension fund and other institutional portfolios. David
retired in 1997, since when he has acted as a non-executive director of a
number of commercial and investment companies and has also had a varied
portfolio of voluntary posts in Essex. These include Deputy Chairman of
Essex Community Foundation, President of the Rural Community Council of
Essex and Chairman of Victim Support Essex. He was High Sheriff of Essex in
2002-03, was a magistrate for twenty-three years and is currently
Vice-Chairman of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee for Essex.
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Lord Currie of Marylebone
David Currie
has enjoyed a career spanning academia, government and business. In
universities, he was Professor of Economics at Queen Mary, London, Deputy
Dean at London Business School and Director of its Centre for Economic
Forecasting, and until 2007 Dean of City University's Cass Business School.
In government, in the 1990s as a member of the Panel of Independent
Forecasters he advised two Conservative Chancellors, and also acted as
informal adviser to three shadow Chancellors. He was also the founding
Chairman (2002-2009) of Ofcom, the UK converged Communications regulator,
and a board member of the Dubai Financial Services Authority. In business,
he served on the board of Abbey National plc, was the founding Chairman of
Independent Audit, is the Chairman of Semperian PPP Investment Partners, and
serves on the boards of BDO, IG Group and the Royal Mail. David is also
Chairman of the Independent Centre for Financial Regulation and a Board
member of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He sits on the cross benches in
the House of Lords.
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Mr Nitin Dahad
Nitin
Dahad is a consultant and adviser in the high-tech sector, publisher of
online business magazines, and non-executive director, with over 27 years’
experience in the global technology and media industry. He has a track
record of building value in companies that have had successful exits or have
been acquired. His achievements include taking a British microprocessor
start-up to Silicon Valley and through a successful flotation on the London
Stock Exchange; and chairing a tech company towards sale to a Chinese mobile
company. He has significant experience in building companies, brands and
business, and in various advisory & non-executive roles with Government
agencies and universities. He founded consulting company TechSpark in 2002,
advising clients on marketing, internationalisation and business development
in the USA, Brazil, India, Middle East, Africa and the Far East. He also
publishes The Next Silicon Valley, an online magazine about innovation and
tech clusters around the world. Nitin is also a board director of UK-based
charity, The Rajasthani Foundation, supporting causes in the state of
Rajasthan, India; and he is a partner for UCLA Anderson School of
Management’s Global Access Program, developing strategies for the next phase
of international business expansion for high-growth companies. In the late
1990s, he took microprocessor start-up ARC International to the USA and
built its brand from zero to a successful IPO within two years. He also
co-founded and successfully grew The Chilli in 2002, one of the first online
magazines giving practical guidance for tech entrepreneurs and investors. In
the public sector, he has served on various boards and committees since
2002, including as a governor University of Hertfordshire board at a time of
significant modernization; and on the board of directors for East of England
Development Agency, where he championed the digital agenda and international
agenda of the region’s businesses.
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Mrs Celia Edey
Celia Edey
was born and brought up in Colchester. In the late 1960s and early 1970s she
worked as PA to a renowned theatre, opera and ballet photographer, and then
to the MD of J Walter Thompson in South Africa. Whist living in Johannesburg
and then Melbourne, she held several charitable posts associated with
schools and children, including chairmanship of Anglia Holiday Games Club.
In 1985 Celia set up, and chaired, the National Fundraising Committee for
the British Lung Foundation, organising large events including a royal
charity premiere at the Royal Opera House, the royal premiere of Who Framed
Roger Rabbit, and a Hoffnung Concert at the Barbican, raising approximately
£500,000. She was a trustee of the Foundation. Celia served as
trustee/governor of two special schools for children with emotional and
behavioural difficulties. She was appointed a magistrate in 1984, and during
25 years on the Bench took on a range of additional responsibilities. In
1995 Celia was appointed to Essex Magistrates Courts Committee, becoming
deputy chairman, and then chairman, and leading the committee through a
number of fundamental changes. Celia was appointed to the national
management body for the 42 Magistrates Courts Committees, and participated
in briefings to Ministers following the Auld Review, leading the county
response to that Review. She won a Public Servant of the Year Award for
raising awareness of the magistracy generally, and for her work in briefing
and consulting other criminal justice stakeholders and political bodies at
the local, district, county and national level. Celia chairs the
University's Audit and Risk Management Committee, is a member of Audit and
Risk and a Board Member at University Campus Suffolk, and is also Deputy
Chairman of Chelmsford Prison Visitors Centre.
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Mr Paul Gray
Paul Gray
joined Council in September 2008 and also serves on the Finance and Strategy
Committee and the Remuneration Committee. His principal career was in the
Civil Service, working in HM Treasury, the Prime Minister's Office,
Department for Work and Pensions and HM Revenue and Customs. He also spent
several years working as a corporate planner in the private sector, and
later served as a non-executive director of Laing Management Ltd. Paul's
original professional discipline was as an economist later moving into
broader managerial and leadership roles in both policy development and
operational delivery, culminating in his period as Executive Chairman of HM
Revenue and Customs, from which he retired in late 2007. He served as Head
of Profession for Operational Delivery across government and chaired the
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development group Heads of Tax
Administration in the major developed countries. After retiring from the
Civil Service Paul qualified as an executive leadership coach and is now a
partner in Praesta Partners LLP, where he chairs the management group and
coaches senior business leaders from across the public and private sectors.
He complements that with a number of other pro bono roles including Chair of
Governors at Newport Free Grammar Scholl near his home outside Saffron
Walden.
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Dr Elizabeth Hall
Elizabeth
Hall qualified in Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, now linked
with Imperial College.
She moved to Colchester in 1968 with her husband who is
a GP. She has therefore known the University of Essex, the changes in
Colchester, and the importance of consolidating the links between the town
and the University for over 40 years
She was closely involved in founding St Helena Hospice,
was chair of the steering committee and its Medical Director for nearly 20
years. She has worked in various areas of the Health Service including 20
years working in and developing Family Planning Clinics in the Colchester
area. She was also a Magistrate on the Colchester bench for 20 years. She
was a Governor of the Sixth Form College, Colchester for 10 years. As a
member of the Local Strategic Partnership Colchester 2020 she was chair at a
time of review of the Strategic Plan and Vision. She was a Trustee of a
grant giving charity, Colchester Catalyst. She continues to be a Trustee of
Beacon House, which provides Primary Healthcare for the Homeless. At present
she works as Medical Adviser to the Barnardo’s London North and South East
adoption panels. In1996 she was given an Honorary Degree by the University
of Essex and in 2011 she was awarded an MBE for services to health care and
the community.
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Professor Sir Deian Hopkin
Deian Hopkin is the President of the National Library of Wales and adviser
to the First Minister. From 2001 to 2009 he was Vice-Chancellor and Chief
Executive of London South Bank University and interim Vice-Chancellor of the
University of East London in 2009-10. A historian specialising in Labour,
trade union, press history, and the use of new technologies in the
humanities, he taught at Queen Mary College London, the Open University and
Aberystwyth and was Vice-Provost of London Guildhall University.
Substantially involved in educational and skills policy he chaired to DCSF
Higher Education Progression Board and Universities UK's Skills Task Force,
served on the Learning and Skills Council and Skills for Health SSC and is
currently a trustee of the Campaign for Learning, a Council member of the
City and Guilds Institute and Chairman of the University Centre, Jersey; he
is also a member of the Education Honours Committee at the Cabinet Office
and of the Higher Education Commission. Following his Independent Review of
the Student Loans Company, he was appointed interim Chairman of the Company
in 2010. A patron of several organisations including Cerebra, Futureversity
and Hillcroft College for Women, he is Vice-Chairman of the Council for
Assisting Academic Refugees and a trustee of the Institute for Historical
Research in the University of London. A regular broadcaster and columnist,
he serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Times Higher Education and
chairs the Local Economy Policy Unit. He is a Freeman of the City of London,
holds a number of honorary awards and was knighted in 2009 for services to
higher education and to skills in the UK.
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Ms Judith Judd
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Dr Laura Mansel-Thomas
Dr
Laura Mansel-Thomas was brought up in Devon and Cambridgeshire, attending
Long Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge. She studied Biochemistry at Keble
College, Oxford and then took a Masters in Biochemical Engineering at
University College, London. She then worked at WRc (previously the
government owned Water Research Centre) before returning to London, this
time to Imperial College, to commence her PhD. Laura's research was into the
use of bacteria for remediation of industrial wastewaters, with joint
supervision from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry.
She completed her research in 1996 and formally received her PhD in 1997.By
a combination of luck and judgement Laura joined Max Fordham LLP in 1996.
Max Fordhams are an innovative firm of sustainable building engineers, with
employees from a diverse range of backgrounds who come up with fantastic
approaches to buildings. This gave her a great grounding in low energy
building design and exposure to all types of buildings including
responsibility for the Nursery Pavilion at Lords, built in time for the 1999
Cricket World Cup. She moved to Atelier Ten in 1999 where, with a brief
sojourn into the world of retail (she owned and ran two toy shops in East
London) she stayed until June 2010. Key projects included the award-winning
Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the redevelopment of the National Theatre. In
June 2010 Laura joined Ingleton Wood LLP, a multi-disciplinary building
consultancy with offices across South East England. Laura is an Associate
who runs the engineering team in the Colchester office and has particular
interests in sustainability and communication of engineering concepts.
Current projects range from Intensive Care Units to Schools via Hotels and
Churches.
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Dr Andrew Phillipps
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Mrs Maria Stanford
Maria Stanford is Human Resources Director for Selfridges Group Limited,
which comprises of four different luxury department store groups in the UK,
Ireland, The Netherlands and Canada. Having graduated from the
University of Essex with a degree in Government she joined a Graduate
Training Programme in Human Resources and quickly established herself as a
highly credible HR professional. Her career has been largely in the
retail sector. It includes, amongst other things, a six year career
break and senior roles within Marks and Spencer and Pret A Manger.
Maria also worked as a self-employed consultant and collaborated on many
exciting and innovative projects including one to set up a corporate
university at BAA. She has led many major change programmes at all
levels within organisations. In her current role, Maria reports to the Chief
Executive for Selfridges Group and works closely with the Country Management
teams in each business. Having developed Heads of HR is the countries
to run the day to day HR agenda, Maria's main focus is around organisational
change, executive and leadership development and executive compensation.
Maria is a Fellow of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and is
an accredited Executive Coach.
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Mr Philip Tolhurst
Philip Tolhurst is a Senior Partner at Tolhurst Fisher. He is also National
Chairman of Raleigh International
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Dr Marion Wood
Dr
Marion Wood has been a Consultant Haematologist at Colchester Hospitals
University Foundation Trust since 1992. She has been local college tutor for
the Royal College of Physicians, lead for clinical audit and has held a
number of clinical management roles in the Trust. Most recently she was the
Trust's Medical Director, from May 2004 to September 2008 and is currently
involved at regional and national level in 'Pathology transformation', one
of the QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Prevention and Productivity) work streams
of the NHS. Marion also represents haematology on the Council of the
Association of Clinical Pathologists.
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Mr Nathan Bolton
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Professor Joan Busfield
Professor Busfield trained initially as a clinical psychologist at the
Tavistock Clinic. She then worked on a study of the social influences on family
size published (with M.Paddon) as Thinking About Children: Sociology and
Fertility in Post-War England (l977). Since then her research has focussed
on psychiatry and mental disorder. Her main publications include: Managing
Madness: Changing Ideas and Practice (l986) Men, Women and Madness
(1996). She has recently edited a special issue of the Sociology of Health
and Illness which will be published in October as Rethinking the
Sociology of Mental Health and Health and Health Care in Modern Britain
(2000). Her main teaching interests are: medicine, illness, psychiatry, mental
health and illness, health services and health policy.
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Professor
Eamonn Carrabine
Professor Eamonn Carrabine joined the Department of Sociology at the
University of Essex in 1998 and he has published broadly in criminology and
sociology. His current research projects include a book on Crime and Social
Theory that will concentrate on how aspects of social theory illuminate key
problems in criminology. He also plans to write a book on The Iconography of
Punishment, which develops arguments from his Crime, Culture and the
Media (2008). This book will focus on how punishment has been represented
in the literary and visual arts and it will intervene in the recent turn to
cultural analyses in the sociology of punishment. Work from this project has
already been published in The Prison Service Journal, and a more
extended treatment of the issues is covered in a chapter on 'Telling Prison
Stories' in an edited collection on The Arts of Imprisonment,
while the distinctive ethical problems posed by visual criminology have been
addressed in an article for the British Journal of Criminology. A
further paper on 'Images of Torture' has been published in Crime,
Media, Culture and this piece examines the debates provoked by the
notorious Abu Ghraib photos and those produced in the wake of the scandal.
He was elected on to the editorial board of Sociology and currently serves on
the British Journal of Criminology, the international advisory
editorial board of Crime, Media, Culture and an associate editor of
Theoretical Criminology. He has been an external examiner for undergraduate
degree programmes at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Roehampton
University, and the University of Salford, while he is currently the external
examiner for the MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Keele University. He
is also a member of HEFCE’s Sociology sub-panel that will assess the quality of
research for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.
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Dr Pam Cox
Dr Pam Cox is Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Essex,
responsible for its 2,500 postgraduate students. She is co-ordinating the
University's new Graduate Strategy which seeks to raise the profile of this
core group of students. Pam is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of
Sociology and specialises in criminology, social history and comparative
youth justice. She is interested in the history and effectiveness of
partnership working in criminal justice projects involving public, private
and voluntary bodies. Her books include
Gender, Justice and Welfare: Bad Girls in Britain, 1900-1950 (2003),
Becoming Delinquent: European Youth, 1650-1950 (2002), Crime in
Modern Britain (2002) and Criminology: A Sociological Introduction
(2009). Before joining Essex Sociology in 1999, Pam completed her doctorate
at the University of Cambridge and taught History at Essex and at University
College Chichester. In 2006 she spent a year in Hanoi as a Visiting Fellow
at Vietnam National University and has since returned there as a youth
justice consultant working on youth justice reform with international NGOs
and their Vietnamese government partners. Since 2005, she has been a member
of Suffolk Family Justice Council which monitors the performance of local
family courts. Pam is also an 'ambassador' for firstsite, one of
Colchester's leading arts organisations, and an enthusiastic supporter of
growing community efforts to regenerate the town's cultural life. She has
been a regular contributor to local and national media on a variety of
topics from Essex girls, Vietnamese drug dealing and the changing nature of
Englishness. She lives in Colchester with her partner and two children.
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Professor Maria Fasli
Professor Maria Fasli is the Head of the School of Computer
Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE). She has been at the University of
Essex since 1996 when she joined the Department of Computer Science as a PhD
student. She obtained her PhD in 2000 and since then she has been a member of
staff. Her research interests lie in artificial intelligence and multi-agent
systems and their applications to electronic commerce and other domains. She has
published extensively in this area including a research-informed textbook on
Agent Technology for E-commerce (Wiley, 2007). She is also interested in
pedagogical research and in particular in the research-teaching nexus and the
use of technology to both support and enhance the students' learning experience.
In 2005, she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship (NTFS) for contributions
to and innovations in learning and teaching. Maria has held a variety of admin
roles in the University from Admissions Selector to Graduate Director and has
played an active role in the University’s recruitment activities. She has
also held the role of the Associate Dean in the Residents’ Support Network in
the University Residences between1999-2009. She has been the Head of CSEE since
August 2009.
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Professor
Anthony Forster
Professor Anthony Forster is the sixth Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Essex, taking up his post in August 2012.
Anthony is a political scientist specialising in European and British foreign
and security policy issues. His work has focused on military politics and most
recently on the duty of care owed by the state and society to service personnel.
Anthony has published 11 books and nearly 50 articles and chapters. Following a
first degree in Politics from the University of Hull and a commission in the
Army, Anthony read for an MPhil and a DPhil in European Politics at the
University of Oxford. He held posts first at the University of Nottingham and
then at King's College London. In 2002 Anthony joined the University of Bristol
as Professor of Politics and International Relations and Founding Director of
the Governance Research Centre and was Head of the Department of Politics from
2004 to 2006. He then moved to Durham University to take up the post of
Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health before becoming
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) in 2008 and Deputy Vice-Chancellor in
2011.Anthony is equally committed to excellence in research and education. He
completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice and has been a Fellow
of the Higher Education Academy since 2007.Between 1999 and 2002 Anthony was the
Special Advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union
Common Foreign and Security Policy. He is a Board and Audit Committee member of
the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and a member of HEFCE's Widening
Access and Participation Strategic Advisory Committee. He is also an elected
Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences (2009); and a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts and Manufacturing (2010).
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Mrs Victoria Galeotti
Victoria graduated from the University of Essex in 2001, with a BA in English
and US Literature. She went on to complete a postgraduate qualification at the
University before joining the Communications and External Relations Section as
Student Recruitment Assistant. In June 2003, after a year involved in
undergraduate publications and recruitment, Victoria was appointed to a
postgraduate marketing and recruitment position within the Section. Since then
she has undertaken a marketing secondment at East 15 Acting School and a short
secondment within the University’s Communications Office as PR and Events
Officer, organising the PR for events including Court and Graduation. Victoria
currently works in the University’s Marketing and Student Recruitment Office,
where she takes a leading role on postgraduate marketing activities and
strategies, including production of the Graduate Prospectus. She is also
responsible for all CRM (customer relationship management) developments relating
to prospective students interested in and applying to study at Essex. Victoria
obtained her Chartered Institute of Marketing Professional Diploma in 2009.
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Professor
Jules Pretty OBE, FRSA, FSB
Jules Pretty is Deputy Vice-Chancellor
at the University of Essex, and Professor of Environment and Society. His books
include This Luminous Coast (2011), The Earth Only Endures
(2007), Environment (4 vols, ed 2006), Biological Approaches to
Sustainable Soil Systems (2006, co-authored), The Earthscan Reader in
Sustainable Agriculture (2005, ed), The Pesticide Detox (2005),
Agri-Culture (2002) and Guide to a Green Planet (ed, 2002). He
is a Fellow of the Society of Biology and the Royal Society of Arts, former
Deputy-Chair of the government’s Advisory Committee on Releases to the
Environment (ACRE), and has served on advisory committees for a number of
government departments and the Royal Society. He is a regular speaker,
contributor to media, and presenter of the 1999 BBC Radio 4 series Ploughing
Eden, a contributor and writer for the 2001 BBC TV Correspondent programme The
Magic Bean, a panellist in 2007 for Radio 4’s The Moral Maze, and
author/presenter of the 2012 Radio 4 programme Silent Spring. He
received a 1997 international award from the Indian Ecological Society, was
appointed A D White Professor-at-Large by Cornell University from 2001, and is
Chief Editor of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability.
This Luminous Coast was shortlisted as UK non-fiction book of the year
in 2011, and awarded 2011 regional best nature book. He received an OBE in 2006
for services to sustainable agriculture, and an honorary degree from Ohio State
University in 2009.
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Dr
Alison Rowlands
Alison took a
first-class BA Degree in History at St Hilda’s College
Oxford in 1987 and went on to do a PhD in early modern
German history at Clare College, Cambridge. After teaching
part-time at Durham from 1990-1992 Alison took up the post
of Lecturer in European History at Essex (from 1992),
becoming Senior Lecturer in 2002. She has been Director of
the Centre for Local and Regional History since 2008 and
Head of the History Department since 2011. She became a
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2012. She has
published widely in the fields of early modern social,
cultural and gender history and especially on the history of
witchcraft and witch-hunting.
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Dr Lisa Wade
Lisa Wade worked as a civil servant and in various administrative roles at BT
plc, before returning to full time education as a mature undergraduate student.
She completed both an MA and PhD at Essex before being appointed to a
lectureship in the Art History department in 2000. Lisa has taken a lead role in
undergraduate admissions and the marketing of the subject of Art History within
the department and has developed modules which have been used as examples of
best practice; she is the holder of an excellence in Teaching award and and
Teaching & Learning Innovation Fund (TALIF) grant which seeks to create an
on-site publishing house teaching tool. Lisa is now a senior lecturer in the
merged School of Philosophy and Art History; she is an elected member of Senate
and is also an Associate Dean for the Faculty of Humanities and Comparative
Studies.
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Secretary and Clerk to Council
Mr Bryn Morris
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