WiT21: New Ways of Working – The Good, The Bad and The Downright Experimental

Louise is an authentic and inspiring people leader who creates and supports high performing project teams. Linking strategy to capabilities and enablers she helps individuals understand how their own personal impact can influence and enable successful strategic change and deliver transformative digital solutions.

Charley's squiggly career path has taken her from secondary education, to the NHS and then through various operational and project roles at the University of York. She uses all her strengths and superpowers in her current role of Senior Business Analyst to lead technology enabled business change. When not working she is probably crafting or spending time with dogs.

Sarah has been leading the BLE, a centre for digital education serving seven universities, since 2007. In this role, she has led on many initiatives including the creation of an award-winning MOOC to advance academic development and courses to support digital skills awareness in students and teachers. She also works with the wider HE sector facilitating the sharing of good practice in Digital Education.

Stella Ekebuisi is Head of E-Learning at Queen Mary University of London. She leads a team of 15 with responsibility for advising on digital education and delivering the institution’s learning technologies. Stella has been involved in multiple institutional projects including e-exams, learning analytics and digital accessibility.

Julie Voce is Head of Digital Education at City, University of London. Julie oversees support for City’s educational technologies and projects related to learning spaces, learning analytics, learning design, digital accessibility and digital literacies. Julie is a member of UCISA’s Digital Education Group and led the 2022 TEL survey team.

Farzana Latif is Head of Digital Education Systems at the University of Sheffield her role involves contributing to the strategic direction and managing a central team that supports a wide range of enabling technologies, the remit of which includes exploring and identifying the potential of emerging technologies and their pedagogic value.

John Ramsay is a Product Engineer at Imperial College London. John has fifteen years’ experience in HE supporting all aspects of digital education. In his current role, John works closely with teams across Imperial to ensure appropriate technologies are in place to support teaching and learning delivery.

Seconded from IT to lead a University wide programme in May 2020 to flip to blended learning and blended services for 20/21, this session will reflect on personal and professional lessons learned from running a COVID programme while coping with family life while working at home, loss, becoming a gran and recovering from COVID towards a very different outlook on a work life balance.

Bethan is B2B Marketing Consultant with over 10+ years experience in technology and the digital sector. Formerly a senior manager in the tech sector and founder of several start-ups, Bethan has built her career sitting at the intersection between marketing, product & development. Outside of work, Bethan likes to work on her podcast - The Brave, which explores how we can build a better future.

A CIO for over 30 years in education, public and charitable sectors, Laura Dawson's focus is building high performing teams and helping organisations make the best use of their data and technology. Laura was CIO of LSE till 2023 and now is a Governor and Charity Trustee and Founder for Leaderly Consulting.