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Robert Hull, Chair, RCE North East Steering Group
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Robert Hull was formerly Head of the Environment and Sustainable Development Policy Division in the European Commission and then Director of the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels. Now a Member of Council of Newcastle University he is also involved with a range of organisations working on environmental and sustainable development issues at national, regional and local levels.
Professor
Paul Younger, Director of the Newcastle Institute for Research on
Sustainability - RCE North East Academic lead
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Paul’s background is in hydrogeology and environmental engineering, and he holds BSc and PhD degrees from Newcastle, as well as a Masters from Oklahoma State University, gained during his tenure of a Harkness Fellowship there from 1984 to 1986. Before he took up his first academic post at Newcastle University in 1992 Paul worked in the water industry, in the UK (Yorkshire Water, National Rivers Authority and later in private consultancy) and in Bolivia (Centro YUNTA, La Paz). Following a succession of academic posts as Lecturer, Reader and Professor, Paul served for two years as the University’s first Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement before taking up his present position in June 2010. He is particularly renowned for collaborative work with grassroots communities (in the UK and developing countries) to empower them to tackle issues of post-industrial pollution and the provision of clean water. The research and outreach programme which Paul established on these themes in 1992 continues strongly to this day, and won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education for Newcastle University in 2005. Paul is also a Director of four companies engaged in the groundwater control and geothermal energy sectors, and has contributed to the sustainability agendas of some of the world’s largest corporations, including HSBC, Rio Tinto and Anglo-American. In June 2010 Paul was appointed as Chair of Sustaine, the independent champion body for sustainable development in North East England.
A gifted communicator, Paul served for five years as a Public Orator for the University, delivering honorary degree citations for the Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP (in Jan 2007), Sir David King (May 2006), Baroness Onora O’Neill (April 2008), Lee Hall (May 2009) and Alan Shearer (Dec 2009), amongst many others. A fluent Spanish speaker, Paul has extensive experience in community-based development projects in Latin America, and is well-known in the mining and water sectors in Spain. In 2009 he was appointed to the water research panel of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the government of Greater Madrid. Paul is author of some 250 items in the international literature, including textbooks on groundwater and mine water management. He currently serves on the public engagement panel of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Societal Issues Panel of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. From 2008 to 2010 Paul was Chair of the Board of the Great North Museum, and he currently serves on the Board of Live Theatre.
Dr Aidan Doyle, Senior Research Associate, Newcastle University - RCE North East coordinator
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Aidan with colleague Gyeong-Woong JO, Sea Explorers of Korea, RCE Tongyeong
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Jaime lecturers and debates environmental policy and sustainability with engineering students. Originally from Spain, he came to the North East 12 years ago after living in The Netherlands for a while. He has two canny children. He coordinates several multinational research projects in natural resources management. He works with Aidan in the development of outreach programmes including Newcastle University's contribution to RCE North East.
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Paola Masciulli Bateman is an Italian teacher of English at the Secondary School ‘Giovanni Oliva’ in Locorotondo, Italy. She is Head of the Department of European Projects and is currently involved in a Comenius Project titled ‘Euro Star’, involving three European countries. She has also been involved in various Etwinning partnerships, and the last one with Liverpool and Rouen (France) called ‘Culture Swap’ has been awarded last March. She has also been appointed for managing the Department of Interculture Education and Social Integration of all Cultures.
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Anne is a plant biologist and her research group study the physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology of 'nocturnal plants'. She is principal investigator of the North East arm of the Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) network, a Big Lottery-funded England-wide initative aimed at encouraging people to get back in touch with nature by enabling them to explore and study their local environments.
Zora Joy Bride, Patchwork Planet Productions: Green Phoenix Festival
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Having decided to not tread the boards, though legend tells she can still be heard singing from time to time, Zora took to arts management and programming and has been doing so, mostly at festivals for a number of years. Starting out as a runner at the age of 16, to co-producing a venue in the Green Fields at Glastonbury (03-05), and booking and programming over 200 workshops and performances for the Big Green Gathering (2002 – 2007).
Zora is very happy indeed to be bringing a celebration of arts and sustainable culture to the North East as she is passionate about providing people with the opportunity to develop skills and talent. The Green Phoenix will be a brilliant opportunity for many people to come together to let their hair down and share ideas, skills and stories.
Deborah Brady
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Mike Brogan, English Martyrs School & VI Form College
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English Martyrs School with sixteen other schools in the region involving 126 GCSE art students were responsible for the 'Textures and Growth' flagship programme which focussed on the plant-life and lichens that inhabit the areas along the North East coast. We compared rural and industrial locations. This work has so far resulted in two public exhibtions of the students' work, at EMS Art Gallery and at Moorbank Botanical Gardens. We are currently working on a garden project with RCE and with Our Lady and St. Bede School in Stockton and will be involved in a new Summer school venture in July.
Moira Conway
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Recently when interviewed she regarded her career highlights as fashion Editor of “Jackie” magazine and bringing up three sons.
Dolan Conway, Royal Institute of British Architects
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Dolan Conway trained at the Architectural Association London. He is Chair of the North East Region of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a member of the RIBA National Council. Currently involved in City and Town Centre Regeneration Projects, he has worked in private practice and Local Authority Architectural Services. Committed to Inclusive Design his work on Quays Regeneration with design led teams developed into membership of Euroscape an International and European group of Architects and Planners working on Sustainable Regeneration of Waterfronts and their Communities, published in the Cool Sea (ISBN 0901273406) Waterfront Communities Project Tool Kit. In 2010 he takes up the Chair in Equal Arts.
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Emer Crangle has lived overseas for most of the last 23 years (Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, Malawi, Uganda, Afghanistan, Iraq, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Lebanon, Palestine etc). Her work for a variety of organisations including Oxfam, Save the Children and the Red Cross usually involved managing programmes in vulnerable communities / refugee camps concerning health promotion, primary health care water and sanitation issues. Currently she is studying for an MA in Fine Art (painting) at Sunderland University before deciding which direction her future work will take
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We feel that the word ‘sustainability’ has no resonance with young people. It is something we feel assured that older generations are dealing with, and something only future generations will have to cope with the consequences of. Still fresh and feeling invincible, with a ‘live fast, die young’ mentality, young people don’t see the need to worry about washing out milk bottles to stop the ice caps melting. We want to see sustainability made more accessible and relevant to young people.
Sara Crawshaw, Hexham and Newcastle Partnership South
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Vivienne Dawson is the coordinator of the 'Grow Your Own Five' project in partnership with Tanfield School and school hub, Tantobie Community and Beamish Open Air Museum. She is an artist with the 'Great Northern Artists' group and manages Landscape & Art & Design Services (LADS). Much of her work involves making gardens with school and community groups. Over the last few years LADS has instigated and developed award winning garden projects, including 'Meadow Well Made' at North Shields, and the maze and environmental improvements at East Cramlington Nature Reserve.
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Cathrine is a social anthropologist who loves teaching and doing research. Her work most recently has been with British gardeners and their expertise on plants, but she also has conducted long-term research with older people in Yorkshire on their experiences of ageing, social memory and place. She is currently working with designer Michiko Nitta on a project about people's relationships with plants.
Dr Jane Delany, Dove Marine Laboratory
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Educational achievement in the North East amongst our more deprived communities remains below the national average, and levels of participation in higher education are particularly low (26%). The portfolio of innovative educational initiatives that Jane has championed is serving to address this, by creating an inspirational and inclusive programme for young people to embrace learning.
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Colm Doyle is a self employed Education Consultant working with schools and organisations across the North East of England and also in Northern Ireland. He has over 30 years experience working in schools in the region, his final teaching post being Deputy Headteacher in a successful Technology College in Darlington. For over seven years he was Regional Co-ordinator for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. He is well known and his work respected by educationalists at all levels. Colm uses his experience as a school governor and in training graduates new to the teaching profession through the GTP in Darlington. He is a family man, having grown up “children” and grandchildren, as well as having a daughter at primary school.
Mick Dunne, Our Lady and St Bede RC School
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Dr Claire Furlong (web profile) is currently a Lecturer in Environmental Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at Newcastle University, specialising in Environmental Engineering in Developing Countries, Novel Technologies and the nexus between people and technology. Her PhD was on drinking water quality in developing countries and she undertook nine months field research in the Peruvian Amazon. She is currently undertaking research on the perception of drinking water in the Peruvian Amazon and Community Led Total Sanitation in Vietnam.
She considers herself to be an interdisciplinarian working with qualitative and quantitative methods and crossing the boundaries between science, engineering and the social sciences. She passionately believes that only interdisciplinary work in this sector will bring water and sanitation to the millions who lack these basic services in developing countries. In her capacity as a Science and Engineering Ambassador (from 2007) she has worked with schools to develop programmes on the importance of water and sanitation, this was featured in Regions Magazine, (Vol 271, I1, 2008). She is linked to RCE through the Aspire Capacidad – North East and Iquitos Programme and has worked with Joe Plumb for a number of years.
Ian Ground, North East Centre for Lifelong Learning
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Ian is currently Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the North East Centre for Lifelong Learning (NECLL), part of Sunderland University, in Newcastle, and is Head of the NECLL's Explore Membership Scheme.
John Hartshorne, Biologist, Ecologist, Gardener and Teacher
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Mary Haworth, The Alumni Association of Newcastle University
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A champion of customer service, Mary believes it is essential that Newcastle University exceeds the hopes and expectations of those supporters who have chosen to invest in our future.
Mary is a fully certified member of the Institute of Fundraising and is currently studying for an MSc in Charity Marketing and Fundraising at the Centre for Charity Effectiveness based within Cass Business School.
Dr Caspar Hewett, Director and Chair, The Great Debate
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John Holmes, School of the Built Environment, Northumbria University
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In addition to teaching John has carried out research into the drivers and barriers to sustainable property development over the past ten years and has worked with consultancy teams for NHS Estates and the Kings Fund evaluating the effectiveness Public Private Partnerships schemes in delivering sustainable healthcare facilities. He is also a BREEAM assessor (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) and is working with a number of developers to improve the environmental performance of their buildings. Recent schemes include the Sunderland Aquatics Centre and an £80 million office and arts venue in London.
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Rich is the coordinating officer for the North East Strategic Partnership for Sustainable Schools (NESPSS) which engages public, private and third sector partners engaged in supporting schools in the broad sustainability agenda.It is funded by Department for Children, Schools and Families via Government Office for the North East. He is also a trustee of a number of regional charities involved in sustainability programmes. Outside of work Rich is happily married, a proud father of two and a realistic Middlesbrough FC supporter.
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Anthony Knox is Head of Modern Languages at Saint Cuthbert’s High School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Assistant Headteacher. He teaches French and Italian and set up the Italian department in 1990. Since then extensive links have been established, in Diano Marina, Bergamo and Rezzato. Saint Cuthbert’s won the Good School award in 2008 for the best boys school in England and Wales for Italian at A level. At SCHS numbers studying languages to all key stages are very high, particularly in French and Italian. There are currently 46 boys studying an A level SCHS which is remarkable for a boys’ state school. Around half of all A level linguists go on to higher education to study a language in combination. In recognition of the work and results produced by the MFL Faculty, SCHS was awarded SSAT second specialism in MFL in April 2008 to complement its first specialism Science.
Dr Andy Large, Newcastle University
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His work in the northeast region has included work on quantifying impacts of quarrying on wetland systems, and developing wetland systems to address issues of acid mine drainage – a legacy of the northeast’s mining history. However the work closest to his heart concerns the dynamic gravel-bed rivers of Northumberland, and in particular the River Coquet which he has ‘haunted’ for a decade-and-a half. Recent NERC funded research has focused on quantifying the impacts of the September 2008 floods on upper reaches of the Coquet catchment. Most recently, Andy co-edited the book Laser Scanning in the Environmental Sciences (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), and is also on the Editorial Board of the international journal River Research and Applications. He is a Governor in his daughter’s school, and likes nothing better than encouraging young people to get involved in wet and muddy activities such as he has been doing throughout his formative and professional life.
Jim Lepingwell, Patchwork Planet Productions: Green Phoenix Festival
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An environmentalist kidnapped by the arts.
Having nurtured an interest in biological systems through selling organic muck digester to farmers in the late nineties Jim studied Ecological Resource Management. He promptly left the country to co-ordinate volunteer programmes at a couple of environmental projects in Guatemala and ended up with the onerous task of looking after some organic gardens at an eco-lodge in beautiful rainforest surroundings which involved guarding the compost from monkeys and eating fresh pineapple for breakfast, and the odd bit of work.
When he returned to the UK he rekindled another passion, festivals. So swapping his machete for a two way radio he started managing stewards and herding cats.
Several years on and far too many trips down south to work at festivals he says it’s fantastic to be developing an event in the North East.
He is very excited by blending the festival model with learning and exploring positive solutions to challenges that we face by creating a forum for informal, enjoyable debates, workshops and the arts.
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Graeme Lloyd is Head Teacher at Tanfield School - Specialist College of Science and Engineering, Stanley in County Durham working in partnership with RCE North East and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne on projects focussing on sustainability and the environment.
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Alex is Programme Leader for Magazine Journalism at the University of Sunderland. He has a broad range of research interests particularly the practice and theory of green journalism, and the experience of global environmental change. Much of the interest in this area evolved during his four years as editor for the social justice and environment media platform OneWorld. He is also developing projects around 21st century magazine enterprise, and writing/literary theory. The role of pedagogy in the development of curriculum and teaching of journalism and writing, especially in respect of the government’s Widening Participation agenda, is also a key theme in his recent work.
Elisa Lopez Capel
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Dr. Krista McKinzey, Climate Change Project Officer, Science Learning Centre North East
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Upon completing her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2005, Krista taught Geography for a time at Fettes College in Edinburgh, after which she spent a year developing a successful environmental science outreach programme for schools on behalf of two Scottish Science Centres. Krista came to the North East in 2007 to establish, develop and manage the Climate Change Schools Project – she has been delighted with the outstanding achievements of its Climate Change Lead Schools! Krista’s science communication work was recently acknowledged when invited by the British Council to take part in their ‘Communicating Climate Change’ workshop in Washington DC attended by other young scientists, journalists and producers.
In her spare time, Krista enjoys photography, hiking and camping with her husband, Ed, and brother, Ryan, in wild, remote parts of the world, and assisting her parents and grandparents in the garden!
Dr Frederick Milton, School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University
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Oliver Moss, Northumbria University
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Dr. Kola Liadi Mudashiru, Sir Joseph Swan Institute for Energy Research
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Munmun KC, Pakistan Cultural Society
After ten years of experience working in the filed of International Development mainly in Asia she made a decision to change her career into the creative sector, something that she had always been passionate about. Since the beginning of her new career in 2004 she has achieved a number of successes as creative head of the organisation that has undertaken some of the extraordinarily challenging and inspiring Arts Festivals and projects in the North East that have helped to prove her ability and given her recognition in the field of the Arts Management.
With such a broad range of experience and knowledge from her past career which has complimented her current job and made her well equipped and extremely competent to bear in her role as a Director of Pakistan Cultural Society. Her academic background and international exposures of working with people from different cultures and faith, her passion and commitments for the arts and artistic practices and above all her dedication and hard work towards establishing inter-cultural dialogue between communities through the arts; has been the key for her success.
In addition to her present role, she is also associated with various organsiations where her contributions as a member of Executive Board, as Mentor and as an advisor are extremely crucial and she truly believes this as a constant learning process alongside her day to day work.
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David O'Toole is a lecturer at Newcastle College and a rep for the University and Colleges Union. He is also treasurer of The Great Debate, an RCE North East partner organisation that organises courses, workshops and public debates.
Paolo Pieri is a restauranteur with deep cultural roots in the warm Etruscan earth. His father came from Larciano near Pistoia in Tuscany, and brought with him the distinctive agronomical and culinary understanding of that particular place, and ran one of Newcastle's first Italian restaurants in the 1970s: pioneering the now familiar Mediterranean cuisine. Paolo's successful Ristorante Michelangelo in Ryton is as well known for the warmth of its family hospitality as its fine food. He is looking forward to opening out some of his extensive gardens to a variety of Transformative Education partnership projects.
José Plumb Nathaniel is the Projects Coordinator, based at "The Peru Mission" in Iquitos, Peru
Phil Renforth, Newcastle University
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In 2006 he founded (in collaboration with friends in the Institution of Civil Engineers) the ‘Creative construction competition’, in which local civil engineers deliver construction based workshops to school pupils from across the region. In 2008-2009 he was Researcher in Residence at St Cuthbert’s High School (Newcastle) focusing on the provision of drinking water and aspiration development, and last summer he hosted a local sixth form student as a research assistant. He is particularly keen on developing engagement activities that encourage trans-disciplinary education (maybe artistic-scientists or scientific-artists?) but this will have to wait until his PhD is completed in late 2010.
Dr David Ridley
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He graduated from Newcastle University with Combined Honours in History and German. His Durham University PhD focused on aspects of nineteenth-century labour history in the North East coalfield, which he is developing for publication.
He sees the modern commitment of trades unions to Lifelong Learning as a fulfillment of their earliest demands for education and training, and an overlapping interest with the RCE theme of Education for Sustainable Development and the coal energy background of his own academic studies.
Professor Dermot J Roddy, CEng, FIET, Sir Joseph Swan Institute for Energy Research
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Paul Ruane is the assistant head teacher of Saint Cuthbert's RC High School in Benwell, West Newcastle, where he teaches physics. As a traditional Irish musician he coordinates the RCE North East Sustainable Migrant Community Cultures programme in partnership with the Tyneside Irish Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne and Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann.
Vidya Sarangapani, Kalapremi
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Dr Karen Scott is Lord Richard Percy Research Fellow at the
Centre for Rural Economy in the School of Agriculture,
Food and Rural Development, Newcastle University.
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Glenda Short is the joint Head of 6th Form and teacher of Italian and French at Ryton Comprehensive School. She is always keen to encourage students to contribute to the community and to expand their horizons. She has taken students on exchanges and visits to France, Germany and Italy.
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Hari Shukla OBE. Freeman of the City of Newcastle.
Hari's Peace: Blog by Hari Shukla
Spice FM Hari Shukla OBE
Sandeep Singh
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Sandeep has a strategic and human centered approach to work and is enthusiastic about bringing together the realms of Design, Business and Sustainability in identifying solution spaces that create emotional value by the application of design thinking.
His research interests span designing for a sustainable future, application of design thinking fundamentals for process improvement and human centered design. He also acts as a consultant in delivering advice on creative problem solving for organisations, strategy development, globalisation and market expansion and development of intellectual property rights. He is also forging links between UK and India to facilitate the exchange of design expertise between the east and west.
Sandeep thinks that the future of design holds a lot of promise as international boundaries will dissolve, bringing the East closer to the West. Signs of this happening can already be seen with Information Technology growing stronger by the day and virtual spaces expanding in leaps and bounds. It would become imperative for the businesses in the West to start building strong links with the rapidly developing East to share best practice, collaborate and innovate - working together towards shaping a better world, where sustainability would no longer be an issue, but rather a way of life.
John Swaddle
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Prof. John Tomaney, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies
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He has published over 100 books and articles on questions of local and regional development including Local and Regional Development (Routledge, 2006) co-authored with Andy Pike and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose. He has undertaken numerous research projects in the UK and elsewhere. Among the organisations for which he has conducted research are: UK Research Councils, UK government departments, the European Commission, the OECD and local and regional development agencies and private sector and voluntary organisations. He has given evidence to Royal Commissions and Parliamentary Committees in the UK . In addition, he is a regular commentator in the UK media on matters of local and regional development.
The ‘triple crunch’ and the future of the North East by John Tomaney and Andy Pike.
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Students from Cardinal Hume School, Wrekenton have worked with Creative Partnerships to develop a Graphic Novel based on their research into the history of East Gateshead. more ...
Dave Whitaker
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Jim Wood has managed the Students into Schools, Colleges, Community programme since it was established in Newcastle University and Northumbria University in 1993. His role in 2009 is Assistant Director (Curriculum) in the Newcastle University Careers Service which is responsible for delivering the suite of Career Development modules that include students undertaking tutoring for academic credit in local schools, colleges and community learning centres. Prior to joining Newcastle University, Jim taught mathematics in secondary schools in Newcastle.
