Art, media & communications | Speakers for Schools

Topic: Art, media & communications

  • Portrait of Doctor Anna Beer

    Dr Anna Beer

    Anna’s first book, type-written when she was 12, was ‘Wuthering Claudia’, written for, featuring, and strongly influenced by her classmates at Chiswick Community School. Now, several decades on, she continues to write about what interests her – and hopes will interest others. Her latest book, ‘Sounds and Sweet Airs: the Forgotten Women of Classical Music’ […]

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  • Portrait of Professor Jonathan Benger

    Professor Jonathan Benger

    Jonathan Benger is Professor of Emergency Care in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of the West of England. He leads the Emergency and Critical Care Research Theme, and is Director of the Bristol Academic Department of Emergency Care. Jonathan’s main research interests relate to emergency and pre-hospital care, cardiac arrest, […]

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  • Portrait of Professor Richard Benham

    Professor Richard Benham

    Richard Benham is the World’s first Professor of Cyber Security Management and lectures at Coventry Business School and at the UK’s National Cyber Skills Centre where he is Professor in Residence. He is also a Visiting Professor in Policing at Staffordshire University and also in Cyber Security Management at The University of Gloucestershire. In 2013 […]

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  • Portrait of Jason Beattie

    Jason Beattie

    Jason has been the Political Editor of the Daily Mirror since 2010. Having started as a cub reporter in Solihull he joined the Birmingham Post in 1995. Since 2000 he has had the privilege of covering Westminster politics for broadsheet, mid-market and tabloid newspapers including the Scotsman and the Evening Standard. During that time he […]

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  • Elaine Bedell

    Elaine Bedell is the Chief Executive of the Southbank Centre and was appointed in May 2017, becoming the first woman Chief Executive of Europe’s largest arts centre in its 66 year history. Previously, Elaine enjoyed a twenty-five year career in the media, working in senior roles at the BBC and at ITV where she commissioned […]

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  • Portrait of Professor Ian J Bateman OBE

    Professor Ian J Bateman OBE

    Ian is an environmental economist with a wide array of research interests. These revolve around the issue of ensuring sustainable wellbeing through the integration of natural and social science knowledge within decision making and policy. Particular interests lie in the fields of quantitative analysis, integrated modelling and the valuation of non-market benefits and costs. Ian […]

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  • Portrait of Sarah Baynes

    Sarah Baynes

    Sarah heads up the creative media consultancy, The Creative Garden which specialises in concept creation and development within the creative industries. She advises international broadcasters, creatives and opinion-formers on a range of issues including channel launches and multi-platform ventures. She also coaches talent on screen and in the boardroom. Clients range from individuals, such as […]

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  • Portrait of Kurt Barling

    Kurt Barling

    Kurt went to Comprehensive School in North London. He began his career as a gifted academic at the London School of Economics studying successfully all the way to Ph.D. level. He became a journalist fired up by the need for rigorous and better access driven journalism in the wake of the terrible Broadwater Farm riots […]

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  • Portrait of Phoebe Barter

    Phoebe Barter

    Phoebe is the Group Head of Brand for Aviva with nearly twenty years of experience in brand, marketing and communications. She is from Sydney, Australia, and lived and worked in New York for a number of years, and now calls London home. Phoebe is a full time working mum (two small kids), and enjoys talking […]

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  • Portrait of Jamie Bartlett

    Jamie Bartlett

    Jamie is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media which focuses on the ways in which social media and modern communications and technology are changing political and social movements, with a special emphasis on terrorism and radical political movements. Jamie is also the Daily Telegraph’s technology blogger where he covers all aspects […]

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