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  1. Becky Goodman
    Becky Goodman heads the Business and Enterprise area at BGU. This is a relatively newly formed area for the university and it currently has a BA (Hons) Business degree, a Master's in Business Administration (MBA), Senior Leader Degree Apprenticeship and Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship within its portfolio. CMI courses are also offered from levels 3 to 7, and the business and enterprise team work with businesses to devise bespoke training and CPD courses.Becky is a Chartered Manager and is an experienced business consultant and educationalist. Having worked in various higher education roles for over a decade Becky has experience spanning education management, training and development, lecturing and programme leadership. Becky has lectured on CMI, CIPD, and CIM courses and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Becky Joined BGU in 2018 originally the as Enterprise Development Manager for the University. Since joining BGU Becky has supported an array of business start-ups in the onsite business and enterprise centre BG Futures and is credited with bringing enactus to BGU. Outside of her work at BGU Becky supports small businesses on an adhoc basis, and was previously a director for a business consultancy firm.Teaching As Programme Leader for the area Becky teaches across all of the programmes within the areas portfolio. Her teaching interests include enterprise creation and entrepreneurship, work based learning and project based learning, marketing and organisational strategy.
  2. Prof. Claudia Capancioni
    Prof. CLAUDIA CAPANCIONI, Dott. (Urbino, Italy), MA & Ph.D (Hull, UK), SFHEA Professor in English Literature and Programme Leader for English ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7127-6202 Claudia is a Professor of English Literature and Programme Leader for English, including the MA English Literature and MA Children’s Literature and Literacies. She is a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). At BGU, she leads the Research & Knowledge Exchange Unit, ‘Voicing the Past: ‘Culture, Legacy, and Narrative’. She is also the academic lead for the Sandford Award, and a member of the Research Ethics and Quality Assurance Committees. She is the Membership Secretary of the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS). The contribution of women to literatures in English is her scholarly pursuit, with a focus on the long nineteenth century, the twentieth and twenty-first century. She specialises in Victorian and contemporary women writers, life and travel writing, adaptation, gender and translation studies. She has a keen interest in multigenerational literary legacy, intellectual circles, intertextuality, and transnational studies. She has also published on detective fiction, the Gothic, Anglo-Italian literary and cultural connections, and Joyce Salvadori Lussu. Her publications include translations into English of Italian literary texts. She teaches nineteenth-century and contemporary literature, literary theory, and research skills at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She previously taught Victorian literature and Modernism at the University of Hull, where she was awarded her Ph.D.
  3. Dr Rob Boast
    Pro Vice-Chancellor (Students) Rob joined the senior management team at BGU in November 2017, firstly in the role of Executive Dean for Learning, Teaching and Student Engagement, and now as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Students). Rob leads on all aspects of the academic learning, teaching and student experience, both on-campus and also through collaborative arrangements with educational and business partners. His focus is on supporting academic staff to deliver inspirational teaching, an excellent student learning experience and meaningful student engagement. Through his role he has direct oversight of the Centre for Enhancement in Learning and Teaching, the Library, Student Advice, UK and International Partnerships. Prior to joining BGU, Rob worked at Staffordshire University, where he was most recently Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching. Rob is recognised as an innovator in higher education practice. He has a particular specialism in problem-based learning and practical scholarship, personalised learner support and innovative course development across a range of disciplines. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he has also championed the introduction of technology-enhanced learning and creation of new employer engagement and student employability opportunities.
  4. Dr Lyndsay Muir
    Lyndsay Muir is a senior lecturer in teacher development. She teaches on the secondary PGCE, MEd and PhD/EdD programmes, with specialisms in Drama and English, wider professionalism and equity, diversity and inclusion. She is a graduate of Durham, Birmingham (UCE) and Manchester Universities. Her background is in applied drama, and she has worked in all phases of education, as well as in the creative industries and training sectors. Lyndsay’s PhD thesis was titled 'A Teacher's Progress - passing as a professional' and her research interests include teacher professional identity formation, gender, sexuality, and inclusion in the field of education. She is a founding member of BRIDgE (Base for Research in Diversity, Inclusion & Equity. Teaching Lyndsay teaches on the PGCE, MEd and PhD/EDD programmes and is a subject specialist for the PGCE Secondary Drama and English.
  5. Emeritus Professor Mike Cole
    Dr Mike Cole is Emeritus Professor in Education and Equality at Bishop Grosseteste University. His research has focused primarily on racism and on Marxist theory, as well as Marxist critiques of Critical Race Theory in Education. More recently, he has worked on public pedagogy. His latest books on public pedagogy are Trump, The Alt-Right and Public Pedagogies of Hate and for Fascism: What is to be Done? (2019), Theresa May, the Hostile Environment and Public Pedagogies of Hate and Threat: The Case for a Future Without Borders (2020), and Climate Change, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Public Pedagogies: The Case for Ecosocialism, all published by Routledge. He has also been working on an extended monograph, entitled, Racism and the Tory Party: from Disraeli to Johnson, as well as two edited collections, Education, Equality and Human Rights: Issues of Gender, Racism, Sexuality, Disability and Social Class 5th Edition and Equality, Education and Human Rights in America: Issues of Gender, ‘Race’, Sexuality, Disability and Social Class, all to be published by Routledge in 2022.
  6. Thomasin Nicholds
    Thomasin is the Head of Programmes; Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and the Associate Dean; International. Having spent a large proportion of her career in the Third Sector, responsible for the strategic development and running of a wide range of services for children, families and communities. These include organisational development programmes for other businesses, community research, Ofsted regulated Further Education, health and wellbeing programmes. In this context she has worked at a national level developing and informing policy, engaging in a wide range of partnerships and leading strategic networks. Thomasin is an experienced Charity Trustee has been on the Boards of organisations of varying sizes and reach. Thomasin has studied Occupational Psychology at postgraduate level and has a particular interest in leadership, inclusivity in the workplace and organisational change. She has worked closely with the University of Lincoln International Business School’s Community Organisations Group for over 15 years in an Associate role. For two years Thomasin was the Principal Investigator for an externally funded, gender and leadership research project, working with colleagues with a background in Social Psychology, Business, Education and Sociology. Thomasin has a background teaching on the Psychology BA (Hons) programme and supervises undergraduate dissertations.
  7. Dr Rose Roberto
    From October 2019 until December 2023, Rose had two roles at Bishop Grosseteste University – she was the Teaching Resources Collection Librarian and a part-time lecturer for the School of Humanities, lecturing on history and heritage related courses. Her current research broadly examines the intersection of visual culture and educational publishing, and the hidden histories related to class, gender, and race imbedded in the material culture of the transnational book trade during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Prior to undertaking her PhD, Rose was a librarian and archivist at various cultural and scientific institutions in the USA and the UK for over a decade. As BGU’s subject librarian for Initial Teacher Training, TESOL and Children's Literature, she is responsible for the Teaching Resources Collection (TRC), a self-contained collection within BGU Library which houses specialist materials for trainee teachers and those working or intending to work in education, as well as those studying children’s literature. Rose maintained the Children’s Literature Collection, which has been developed over the past 50 years. It contains a comprehensive and unique representation of work by classic and contemporary writers of children’s books. Rose worked with the RKEU, Literature and Literacies (LiLi) to facilitate the students and staff of BGU's use of the TRC, and their broader knowledge of Children’s Literature. With Dr Amy Webster she co-edited The Four Corners. Along with Dr Sheine Pert, she was also a founding member of Telling it Like it is Teaching Resource Group (TILIIs) which engages in discussion, debate, and sharing of useful education resources in the BGU Library to address the long-standing corrosive effects of inequality, and the legacies of other Post-Colonial issues on our contemporary society.
  8. Rachel Linstead
    Rachel joined BGU in 2021 as a Lecturer in Business and Enterprise. Alongside this role Rachel runs a successful consultancy business specialising in workplace culture and wellbeing. Rachel holds an MSc in workplace health and wellbeing and is a qualified nutritionist and business coach and mentor. Rachel’s main research interests include workplace culture, leadership and management, high performing teams and workplace health and wellbeing. Rachel has successfully ran two workplace health and wellbeing conferences and has spoken at both national and international conferences on the subject of nutrition and its impact on both workplace performance and mental health. Rachel teaches on the undergraduate BA (Hons) Business programme and the Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship. Rachel's teaching specialisms include leadership and management, organisational psychology and sociology, business start-up and Leadership for a changing world.
  9. Allison Webb
    Allison is Director of Business and Community Engagement and has twenty-five years strategic leadership experience across careers, employability, enterprise and broader teenage services, ten of these based in higher education as a Head of Careers, Employability and Enterprise leading a department of up to twenty managers and professional staff. She has led teams delivering a broad range of services to business including BG Futures which now forms the Lincolnshire Social Economy Hub. Current key responsibilities include oversight of Apprenticeships, Partnerships, LORIC and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, Business Development and Community Development, linking to University's Social Purpose.
  10. Tom Dannatt
    Deputy Vice Chancellor (Operations) Tom Dannatt has overall responsibility for the majority of all non-academic operations, including Finance, Human Resources, Estates and Marketing. Tom has extensive experience of financial and resources leadership within the education sector, including strategic financial and resources planning, international partnerships, infrastructure and capital projects, risk management and business development across operations in the UK, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and China. Prior to joining BGU, Tom held senior roles within, amongst others, The Lincoln College Group, Lincolnshire NHS Trust (Chair of the Audit Committee), Franklin College in Grimsby, Grimsby Institute of FE&HE. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management, and a Member of the Institute of Directors.

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