Sue Smith

Director of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Institute for Enterprise

Sue Smith provides academic leadership for enterprise education for the HEFCE funded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the Institute of Enterprise.

After a clinical and management career in the NHS, she moved into Higher Education and most recently worked as a Principal Lecturer and Teacher Fellow in the Faculty of Health. She has been the lead researcher in a diverse range of research projects focussing around problem based learning, group working and interprofessional learning in health and social care students and tutors. She has published widely in the fields of education and health. She has a strong interest in social enterprise, student centred learning and creative interactive learning approaches.

email: s.v.smith@leedsmet.ac.uk

Karen and Sue will continue to develop enterprise in the curriculum under the auspices of the Assessment learning and Teaching office.

Alexandra J Kenyon

Pioneer for Leslie Silver International Faculty

Alex is a Chartered Marketer with a background in the advertising, planning and consumer research industry for leisure, retailing and financial service organizations.

Alexandra has enterprise experience in new product development and campaign planning. Her interests include research in the field of advertising, alcohol studies, licensed retail, consumer behaviour. This year has been quite an exciting year in terms of research and scholarly activity as Alexandra has put forward, and has had accepted, a number of research publications and bids with the alcohol manufacturers, food retailers and local government programmes. Alexandra works in partnership with the BII (Charity status) to provide educational initiatives for UK schools regarding alcohol use and misuse.

email: a.kenyon@leedsmet.ac.uk

Jackie Campbell

Pioneer for Faculty of Innovation North

Jackie is an Associate Senior Lecturer with the Faculty specialising in the area of databases and information systems. Her interest in enterprise stems from 15 years working in the IT sector, experience which she feels dovetails well with the role of enterprise pioneer.

More recently she has been working with local IT specialists, developing their in-house training programmes. Jackie regularly draws on her industrial contacts to enhance student learning by use of guest lecturers and enterprise case studies, believing that the input from industry provides students with a valuable appreciation of the careers and opportunities available to them. She is keen to promote and encourage students to take placements which she feels are both relevant and exciting.Jackie is a member of the Innovation and Enterprise module team, which is particularly pertinent for many of our music and media students who plan to (or have already) set up their own businesses.She led a team to develop the M.Sc in Green Computing and aims to incorporate the 'green agenda' more widely across all the curriculum areas.

email: j.campbell@leedsmet.ac.uk

Cath Sanderson

Pioneer for Faculty of Business & Law

Cath is a scientist with a doctorate in Neurochemistry. She is a Principal Lecturer in Health Sciences within the Faculty of Health and a University Teacher Fellow reflecting her deep passion for curricula and ALT strategies that are student centred, promote a love of learning and develop skills that enable success in any area of employment.

Working within the Faculty of Health with its portfolio of courses in health care practice the focus is on Social Enterprise. Cath interprets Enterprise education in its widest possible sense of developing enterprising people with the analytical abilities to identify problems and the confidence and vision to implement creative solutions in large public and voluntary sector organisations; individuals who can be change agents, intrapreneurs, as well as innovative social entrepreneurs.

She is presently working with colleagues within the Faculty and across the University and with local social enterprises and Health Sector employers on curriculum developments in business and enterprise skills.

email: c.sanderson@leedsmet.ac.uk

Mike Ash

Enterprise Pioneer

Mike previously held a position as an Academic Developer. He is currently involved with the Enterprise Café group which seeks to map enterprise involvement across York and North Yorkshire. Mike is involved with HIV Hope - a social enterprise which has engaged staff at Harrogate. Mike has worked to increase awareness of the facilities at Harrogate and Headingley, in particular the video conferencing suites.