Our strategic advisory groups (SAGs) actively engage our members in shaping the activity and future direction of the organisation. The groups provide strategic advice and guidance to support the implementation of Advance HE’s strategy, ensuring members’ needs and interests are reflected.
The role of the SAGs are to:
- Review and shape Advance HE’s priorities within each relevant area
- Identifying current and emerging strategic issues, challenges and opportunities to inform the future work of Advance HE
- Considering the implications of thematic areas of work for each relevant area
- Advising Advance HE on implementing an integrated approach, maximising the synergies between the areas of equality, leadership, governance and education.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Advisory Group
Advising on the intricacies of Advance HE’s EDI work, including the Equality Charters and considering the sector challenges in relation to EDI.
Members:
- Professor Osama Khan (Chair) – Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Aston University
- Professor Aoife Ahern – Vice President for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion/College Principal, College of Engineering and Architecture, University College Dublin
- Dr Flora Renz – School of Law, University of Kent
- Giselle Byrnes – Provost, Massey University
- Geoffrey Alderman – Principal, Nelson College London
- Hannah Bartlett – Professor of Optometry and Inclusive Practice, Teesside University
- Jackie Dunne – Vice Chancellor, Newman University
- Kevin Andrews – Vice Chancellor, Unicaf University
- Nazira Karodia – Vice Principal, Edinburgh Napier University
- Richard Bourne – PVC Education, York St John University
- Professor Tim Soutphommasane – Chief Diversity Officer, University of Oxford
- Vanessa Ho – Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, St George’s, University of London
Teaching and Learning Strategic Advisory Group
Focusing on supporting Advance HE to enhance teaching and learning for student and institutional success including professional development.
Members:
- Jo Peat – Head of Educational Development, University of Roehampton
- Phil Gravestock – Dean of Students and Education, University of Wolverhampton
- Julian Chaudhuri – Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education), University of Bath
- Simon To – Director of Policy, Governance & Advocacy, Students’ Union University College London
- Professor Guy Daly – Provost and Senior Vice-President (T&L), The British University in Egypt
- Ola Olusanya – Head of Department of Law and Criminology, Aberystwyth University
- Lynette Shotton – Interim Dean of Apprentices, Northumbria University
- Melissa Highton – Assistant Principal, University of Edinburgh
- Dr Ellen Buck – Pro Vice Chancellor Education and Student Experience, Middlesex University London
- Becky Huxley-Binns – Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, Canterbury Christ Church University
- Professor Sherria Hoskins – Provost, University of Portsmouth
- Professor Jo-Anne Murray – Vice-Principal (Education), University of Aberdeen
Leadership and Transformation Strategic Advisory Group
To help shape Advance HE’s work in continuing to develop confident and capable leaders equipping them to respond to current and future sector challenges.
Members:
- Susan Lea (Co-Chair) – Former Vice Chancellor, University of Hull
- Steve Denton (Co-Chair) – Chief Operating Officer and Registrar, Nottingham Trent University
- Steve Denton – Chief Operating Officer and Registrar, Nottingham Trent University
- Claire Peddie – Vice Principal Education (Proctor), University of St Andrews
- Claire Taylor – Vice Chancellor, Plymouth Marjon University
- Romy Lawson – Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Students), Flinders University
- Ghassan Aouad – Chancellor, Abu Dhabi University
- Zoe Radnor – Pro Vice-Chancellor; Executive Dean for Business & Social Sciences, Aston University
- Abby Cathcart – Director of Academy for Learning and Teaching, Queensland University of Technology
- Katharine Clough – CMO/Pro Vice-Chancellor for External Affairs, University of Gloucestershire
- Khadir Meer – Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Chief Operating Officer and Secretary, SOAS
- Osama Khan – Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Aston University. Incoming Vice-Chancellor, University of South Wales
- Karen Kroger – Chief Financial Officer, Queen Mary University of London
- Dr Billy Bennett – Registrar and Chief Academic Officer, Atlantic Technology University
- Adrian Ellison – PVC People and Digital, University of West London
Governance Strategic Advisory Group
Specifically focused on contributing to good governance of the sector particularly providing scrutiny to Advance HE’s priority plans for governance.
Members:
- Janet Legrand KC (Hon) – Senior Lay Member of Court, University of Edinburgh. Also Chair of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)
- Lucinda Parr – Chief Operating Officer, Registrar and University Secretary, University of Bristol
- Chris Costigan – Principal and CEO, Bird College
- Aidan Grills – Chief Executive, Leeds University Union
- Wendy Appleby – Vice-President (Operations), University of Southampton
- Archie Robinson – Former President of the University of Leicester Students’ Union
- Awesome Olasope – President, London Metropolitan University Students’ Union
- Professor Stuart Perrin – Associate Principal of XJTLU Entrepreneur College (Taicang)
- Ada Burns – Chair of Council of Governors, Teesside University
- Marianne Neville Rolfe – Vice-Chair of the Governing Council, University of Derby
- Steve Egan CBE – Chair of Finance and Infrastructure Committee, Bath Spa University
- Moss Garde – Pro-Vice-Chancellor for External Engagement and Partnerships, Wrexham University
- Adrienne Scullion – Pro Vice-Chancellor / Lay Member of Court, Queen’s University of Belfast / Edinburgh Napier University
- Martin Cullen – Managing Director / Council Member, Rockstar Promotions / University of Leicester
- Dr Adeela Ahmed Shafi – Associate Professor of Education, University of Gloucestershire
- Professor Fary Cachelin – Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Regent’s University London
- Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods – Chair of the Board, Northumbria University (CUC)
- Dorothy Mackenzie – Chair, Arts University Bournemouth
Australasian Strategic Advisory Board
Providing strategic input to ensure Advance HE’s operations and services meet the needs of members and partners across Australasia.
Members:
- Chair – Professor David Sadler – Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education, Notre Dame University
- Deputy Chair – Professor Giselle Byrnes – Provost, Massey University
- Professor Tracey Bunda – Academic Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland
- Professor Abby Cathcart – Director of Academy for Learning and Teaching, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
- Professor Maryanne Dever – Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice President, Education, Western Sydney University
- Associate Professor Meegan Hall – Assistant Vice-Chancellor, Victoria University of Wellington
- Dr Janin Bredehoeft – Chief Executive Officer, Science in Australia Gender Equity Ltd (SAGE)
- Professor Susan Page – Director of Indigenous Learning and Teaching, Western Sydney University
- Professor Shaun Ewen – Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), Griffith University
- Professor Julie Cogin – Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Australian Catholic University
- Professor Jessica Vanderlelie – Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Deakin University
Ireland Strategic Advisory Board
Shaping the activity and future direction of our organisation in Ireland.
Members:
- Chair – Prof. John O’Halloran – President, University College Cork
- Prof. Gina Quin – President, National College of Ireland
- Prof. Colin Scott – Registrar, Deputy President and Vice President for Academic Affairs, University College Dublin
- Prof. Tim Thompson – Vice President for Students and Learning, Maynooth University
- Abi Kelly – Director of International Engagement and External Relations, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland – University of Medicine and Health Sciences
- Shauna Whyte – Vice President for People, Culture and EDI, South East Technological University
- Dr Katherine Whitehurst – Director of Teaching and Learning, Mary Immaculate College
- Dr Christine Cross – Registrar and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Munster Technological University
- Marian Duggan – Vice President for People, Culture and EDI, Technological University of the Shannon
- Dr Marie Connolly – Director of Human Rights, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, University of Limerick
- Dr Billy Bennett – Vice President for Academic Affairs and Registrar, Atlantic Technological University
