Register of Interests 2011-12

Sir Alan Wilson
Employer:  University College London
Position:  Professor
Interests:
• Fellow, British Academy
• Fellow, Royal Society
• Oakleigh Consulting ‘HE project in Wales’

Professor Andrew Thompson
Employer: University of Exeter
Position: Professor
Interests:
• Fellow/Member, Royal History Society
• Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Leeds

Ellen Douglas-Cowie
Employer:  Queen’s University Belfast
Position:  Pro Vice Chancellor
Interests:
• Member Del Skills Advisory Board, N.I
• Board Member, UCAS
• Son is recipient of AHRC funded PHD studentship

Mr John Howkins
Employer: 
Position:
Interests:
• Director, Hotbed Media Ltd
• Chairman, BOP Consulting
• Deputy Chairman, British Screen Advisory Council
• Director, BSAC Events
• Visiting Professor, University of Lincoln
• Visiting Professor, City University
• Visiting Professor, Shanghai Theatre Academy
• Member, British Academy of Film & Television Arts
• Director, Television Investments Ltd

Dame Lynne Brindley
Employer:  British Library
Position: Trustee
Interests:
• Member, Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP)
• Trustee, Gilson Trust and Saga Trust
• Visiting Professor, University of Leeds
• Visiting Professor, City University
• Member, Advisory Council for Stanford University
• Goldsmiths’ Livery Company – Court of Assistants and Trustee of Goldsmiths Centre (separate charity)
• Non-Executive Member of Ofcom Board (paid)
• Member of Council, City University

Rick Rylance
Employer:  Arts & Humanities Research Council
Position: Chief Executive
Interests:
• Secondment from University of Exeter
• Member, HE Committee
• Member, English Association
• Member, The British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)
• Member, English Association (EA)
• Partner works in the Department of Classics, University of Exeter

Professor Roger Kain
Employer:  School of Advanced Study, University of London
Position: Dean and Chief Executive
Interests:
• Elected Fellow, British Academy and member of Research Committee
• Member of HEFCE Research and Innovation Committee

Ms Sally Doganis
Employer:  Doganis Associates
Position:
Interests: No Register of Interests

Professor Sarah Worthington
Employer:  University of Cambridge, Trinity College Cambridge
Position: Professor of Law
Interests:
• Visiting appointments and Advisory Board appointment, University of Hong Kong
• Visiting appointments, University of Melbourne
• Visiting appointments, University of Leuven
• Advisory Board appointment, University of Cambridge
• Advisory Board appointment, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Advisory Board appointment, Vienna University of Economics and Business
• Management position, Bencher of Middle Temple
• Council member, British Academy
• Director, International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law
• Management position, RCUK Public Engagement with Research Advisory Panel
• Member, Middle Temple and Chancery Bar Association and Commercial Bar Association
• Member, Society of Legal Scholars
• Fellow, International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law
• Fellow, Association for a European Law Institute
• Charity, ANU (UK) Foundation (UK fundraising arm of ANU development office)

Mr Trevor Spires
Employer:  The National Archives
Position: Non Executive Director
Interests:
• Non Executive Director, The National Archives, Hampshire Primary Care Trust
• Trustee, Royal Naval Submarine Museum, Forces Pension Society

Mrs Felicity Harvest
Employer: 
Position:
Interests:
• Self employed as a weddings, naming and partnerships celebrant, accredited by the BHA
• Member, Governing Body, University for the Creative Arts
• Vice Chair, BBC Regional Audience Council
• Secretary, Wealdon Constituency Labour Party
• Fellow, Royal Society of Arts

Professor David Eastwood
Employer:  University of Birmingham
Position: Vice Chancellor
Interests:
• Chair, UCAS
• Director, USS
• Director, Russell Group
• Director, Great Birmingham and Solihull LEP
• Director, Marketing Birmingham
• Member, UUK Board
• Member, Advisory Board, HEPI
• Member, Hong Kong UGC
• Chair, Universities West Midlands
• Honorary Fellow, Keble and St Peter’s Colleges, Oxford
• Former Vice Chancellor and Hon D.Litt, University of East Anglia

Professor Greg Walker
Employer:  University of Edinburgh
Position: Regius Professor of Rhetoric & English Literature
Interests:
• External Examiner, Universities of Dundee, York, QMUL
• Member & Deputy Chair, HEFCE, REF 2014 Sub-panel for English
• Executive Committee member & Member of Book Prize Judging Panel, The Council for University & College English
• Member of Committee, The English Association
• Chair of Judges, The James Tait Black memorial Prizes
• Fellow, Royal Historical Society, The English Association and Society of Antiquaries.

 

 

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