Category: 2017 Speaker

Professor Heng is now retired; formerly he was a vice president of NTUST. Prior to that he had served as a Director General of Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute and a Vice President of Motorola Inc. YC is a Fellow of IET in the United Kingdom.

The University combines a strong tradition of research in the fields of natural sciences and engineering with research related to industry and business. Tampere University of Technology (TUT) is a sought-after partner for collaborative research and development projects with business and industry and a fertile breeding ground for innovation and new research- and knowledge-based companies.

Doctor of Science in Technology, Mika Hannula was appointed as Professor of Information and Knowledge Management at TUT in 2001. His fields of expertise include business intelligence, management and change management and performance measuring. Prior to TUT Presidency he has held the positions of Dean and Vice President for Education.

Mark has spent over 30 years in Marketing, CRM and Business Development in a variety of high-profile private and public sector organisations worldwide.

In his early years he was Marketing Director for Principality Building Society in Wales and Head of Customer Management for Royal & Sun Alliance (responsible for leading Customer Management for the launch of MORETH>N), before running his own CRM consultancy, helping over 30 companies worldwide to develop effective customer management practices and training programmes.

He was instrumental in setting up Confused.com, before taking up a senior interim management career with organisations such as Open University, Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, Yell Group Plc, British Airways and Barnardos.

Latterly he has been Director of Marketing, Communications and Student Recruitment for City University London and the University of West London, where he was responsible for developing and leading the marketing and communications as well as UK and International recruitment strategies for both institutions. He was appointed as Director of External Affairs, as a member of the Executive Board at the University of Bradford, in June 2013.

He is also a Governor of Leeds City College; Board Member City of Bradford UNESCO City of Film; Member of Advisory Board, Bradford Literature Festival; Board Member of Active Bradford and the Chair of Advisory Board, Theatre in the Mill.

Harriet is responsible for providing operational and strategic leadership in the enhancement and evaluation of the student experience. She will be ensuring that the student voice is heard, and will facilitate partnership working, ensuring that student engagement is central to all of the University’s activities. After completing her DPhil via the universities of Sussex and Toulouse, and following a postdoc in Psycholinguistics, Harriet returned from France to join first the Oxford Learning Institute, and then Wolfson College and Oxford’s Department of Education as a Research Fellow. Post-Oxford, Harriet worked at UCAS, the 1994 Group, and the University of Bath in senior research and policy positions. Harriet’s most recent position was at the University of Bradford where she was a Director and the Strategic Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor.

As Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Learning, Teaching and Quality), Professor Bradshaw oversees the strategic development of learning and teaching to ensure we provide an outstanding, high quality experience for all our students.

Gwendolen has previously worked as Director of Quality Enhancement and Standards and Dean of the Faculty of Health Studies at the University of Bradford. Her contribution to teaching and scholarship has focused on the involvement of service users in all aspects of student learning. She also collaborated in a Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning, which enabled the Faculty to participate in pioneering work associated with the use of technology in curriculum delivery. Gwendolen has also published on risk management within the curriculum and co-authored a book for NHS students concerning health service policy.

Gwendolen takes a keen interest in quality assurance participating in the Northern Universities Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer (NUCCAT) and SEEC networks. She has undertaken the role of Visitor for the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Subject Reviewer and Institutional Auditor for the QAA and more recently has been appointed as a Higher Education and ECREO Reviewer for the QAA whilst also being deputy chair of the University’s Learning and Teaching Committee. In addition she has fulfilled the role of external examiner and professional expert to a range of professional programmes both in the UK and abroad.
Being a member of the Yorkshire and the Humber Health Innovation and Education Cluster (HIEC) Advisory Group afforded Gwendolen the opportunity, at regional level, to influence the Maternal and Infant Health & Care aspect of the Cluster’s work.

Appointed as a Supervisor of Midwifes in 1995, Gwendolen continues in this statutory role and maintains a modest case load. She is a member of the Royal College of Midwives and the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Lead Midwife Educator Strategic Reference Group. Gwendolen has played a significant role a number of national and UK initiatives including the Modernising Midwifery Careers initiative commissioned by the UK health departments when she led the Education and Career Progression work stream on behalf of the four countries.

Brian Cantor is Professor of Materials at Oxford and Brunel Universities. He is also Founding Chair of the World Technology Universities Network, a Trustee of the Science Museums Group and an Editor of Elsevier’s premier review journal, Progress in Materials Science. He has published over 300 books and papers. He invented the field of High Entropy Alloys and discovered “Cantor alloys”. In the recent past, he has been Vice-Chancellor of the Universities of Bradford and York, Head of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at Oxford, a research scientist at GE Labs in the USA, a consultant for Alcan, NASA and Rolls-Royce, and a Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has worked at other universities such as Sussex, Northeastern, Banaras, Washington State and IISc Bangalore, and chaired or been on boards such as the Marshall Aid Commission, the UK Universities Pensions Forum, and Bradford, Leeds and York Local Economic Partnerships (LEPs). He founded and built up the Begbroke Science Park, the Heslington East Campus, the Hull-York Medical School, the National Science Learning Centre, and the World Technology Universities Network. He has received academic prizes, honorary professorships and fellowships in the UK, USA, China and India. He was awarded a CBE for services to higher education in 2013.