Caroline Wilson is an Associate Professor and Curriculum Change Lead at Coventry University. She has a background in media, business and engineering teaching as well as in research, and uses these twin backgrounds while currently seconded to the university group’s Curriculum 2025 Team. This team supports colleagues in refreshing courses to meet the needs of tomorrow’s professionals and leaders. Caroline’s particular responsibility is in embedding measures to support equity of attainment, and sustainability.
Category: 2021 Speaker
Miss Alexandra Negoita
Alexandra Negoita is a Curriculum Intern at Coventry University since 2019. She works predominantly on embedding sustainability and social responsibility, decolonisation and inclusivity in the curriculum. She has a BSc in Criminal Psychology and an MSc in Applied Psychology.
Miss Poojitha Tiruvaipati
Poojitha.Tiruvaipati is the student of Coventry University, studying Global Healthcare manager with the background of Pharm.d and B.pharmacy and Team leader of the team leader of the Team Envimates.
Major Mohamed AlQassim
Mohamed AlQassim is currently the Head of the Admin Division in the Bahrain Coast Guard. He is currently part of the Brunel University Phd program. He holds a Bsc in Marine Biology and A Master’s in Business Management. He has experience in the field of environmental protection and fisheries due to his previous roles in the coast guard as a patrol officer and previous attachments to the Supreme Council fro the Environment as acting director of the Biodiversity Directorate and earlier employment in the Marine Resources Directorate.
Miss Selina Fletcher
Selina leads the Environment Team and sustainability agenda at Coventry University, defining strategy and opportunities to further embed sustainability across the organisation. Energy and carbon reduction; resource efficiency, supply chain management, travel are all focus areas for the team. Working across key groups and partners Selina brings together wider objectives for sustainability relating to a responsible curriculum, community engagement, research opportunities and student skills.
Dr Liz Breen
Dr Liz Breen is the Director of the Digital Health Enterprise Zone and Reader in Health Service Operations at the University of Bradford. The Digital Health Enterprise Zone hosted the Phase 3 trials of the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine (2020/21) and Covid-19 vaccine booster trial and houses state-of-the-art health facilities, business incubation space, research, and teaching facilities. Liz is Deputy theme lead for the Safe Use of Medicines theme in the Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre and has leading roles in multi-million-pound National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded programmes. Liz holds a PhD in Supply Chain Management from the University of Manchester and a MSc in Operations from the same institution, a PG/Dip in Health Service Management and a BSc (Hons) in Sociology. She has held previous academic/research roles at the University of Bradford Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences, University of Manchester, and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. Liz has published in academic and professional journals focusing on end-to-end healthcare supply chains with a particular emphasis on the pharmaceutical supply chain. She has appeared as a supply chain expert on global media channels and has presented evidence to the UK government on medicines supply issues. More recently, she has undertaken extensive analysis of the UK Covid-19 vaccine supply chain and has commented on this in widespread media coverage. She was commissioned by The Conversation to create a specialist article on supply chain learning from the Covid-19 pandemic. This featured in the PreventionWeb collection with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Dr Tasnim Atatrah
Dr Tasnim Atatrah, WHO Represnative and Head of WHO Country Office in the Kingdom of Bahrain since June 2021. Dr Atatrah is a Public health Specialist, medical doctor and policy fellow. Have been leading number of interventions over the past 20 years. Worked in 12 countries between Europe , Middle East and North Africa in different capacities; Led emergency operation and health humanitarian response for Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Libya; Mobilized resources and led interventions to promote health wellbeing in Palestine, Jordan, and Turkey; Oversee the development of National Health Strategies in line with SDG 2030 in Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan; Led interventions to strengthen health security combined with health system strengthening; managing sub-regional platform and creating bridges of cooperation in Central Asia, and served as acting WHO representative in Kyrgyzstan (2018), Tajikistan (2019) and Turkmenistan (2021); Leading innovative Programme design and implementation to advance the realization of Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable Development Goals.
Professor Amer Al-Roubaie
Professor Amer Al-Roubaie is currently teaching economics at Ahlia University, Kingdom of Bahrain. He obtained his doctorate in Economics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He taught economics at universities in Canada, the United States and Malaysia. His publications include books, research reports and many articles which appeared in a number of international journals.
Mrs Sinead Ouillon
Following five years of delivering a wide range of projects using Coventry City as a test bed/living lab, Sinead Founded FabLab Coventry in 2016, using living lab approaches and methodologies to set up and operate what is essentially a STEAM (Science technology Engineering Arts and Maths) civic engagement programme, resourced by a world renowned social science research Institute (Institute for Peace Security and Social Justice). FabLab Coventry’s unique approach of citizen and social science driven, STEAM civic collaboration is novel in the world, and yet the evidence from our members, evaluation and social impact studies point towards this humble yet unorthodox approach to co-creation of research and university civic engagement, as a resounding success. With a background in circular economy, social research and social innovation, Sinead has built up an extensive range of support, from external stakeholders, local communities and external funding agencies to help in making a difference by testing social innovations capable of responding to a myriad of socio-economic, environmental and physical wellbeing challenges. She specialises in the design, implementation and evaluation of living labs as urban innovation spaces, using a range of participatory methodologies and approaches. She is currently responsible for over £3m of externally funded research and social innovation projects. Her research interests include, the circular economy, citizen social science, integration, social enterprise and innovation, Living labs, urban innovation and community university engagement.