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Hope Bentley

Student Experience Officer, University of Essex

Hope Bentley is the Student Experience Officer at the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Essex

Agathe Fidon

Digital Verification Unit Member, University of Essex

Tracey Johns

Public Involvement Lead, NIHR Research Design Service East of England

Public Involvement Lead, NIHR Research Design Service East of England

Professor Jason Glynos

Department of Government, University of Essex

Elelia Ferro

Postgraduate Research Student, University of Essex

Elelia Ferro is currently completing her Creative Writing PhD research examining ‘How We Live in Essex'. She is a poet from Wivenhoe in Essex who has made an impact in the county with her innovative writing methods where she uses interviews and workshops with local people as the basis for narratives which challenge the ‘Essex Girl’ and ‘Essex Boy’ stereotypes. She was previously Writer in Residence for Colchester’s Firstsite Gallery, where she worked with Colchester and Ipswich Museums and a broad range of the community in order to bring to life artefacts from the museum archives. She was also Poet in Residence for Essex County Council’s project, ‘Snapping The Stiletto’ where she worked with communities and the museums to retell the stories of Essex women from over the past 100 years.

Sharon White

Law graduate and donor. Sharon is former Chief Executive of Stephenson Harwood LLP.

Melissa Carr

Senior Lecturer in Leadership Development, Bournemouth University

Peter Fussey

Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Essex

Lisa Belabed

Lisa was a student on our Democracy in Action module in our Interdisciplinary Studies Centre

Dr Claire Wicks

Research Officer, University of Essex

Claire has worked alongside University colleagues to evaluate various nature-based initiatives at local and national level.