Topic: Sciences, engineering & technology
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26 February, 2020Rajiv Popat
Rajiv Popat has worked as radio and television journalist in the Midlands for more than 20 years. He began his career in 1993 at Sunrise East Midlands, a Leicester based radio station which broadcast throughout the Midlands , where his role included producing, reporting and reading the daily news bulletins. The following year, Rajiv was […]
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Rudi Plaut CBE CEng FIMechE
Rudi Plaut obtained a degree in civil engineering in London before gaining an Engineering Watch Keeping Certificate in the Royal Navy. He then became a departmental Assistant Manager in a large steel works before leaving to start his own company. After some years he sold this company and started a new venture in a different […]
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Johnny Pitt
Johnny has built his career around creativity. Credited with helping to develop the UK’s first ever Big Brother broadcast format in 2000, Johnny founded creative comms agency, Launch, in 2001. Voted Best Agency Leader, Winner of Campaign of the Year and an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, Johnny believes a good idea […]
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Dame Alison Peacock
Professor Dame Alison Peacock is Chief Executive of the Chartered College of Teaching, a new Professional Body that seeks to raise our status through celebrating, supporting and connecting teachers to provide expert teaching and leadership. Prior to joining the Chartered College, Dame Alison was Executive Headteacher of The Wroxham School in Hertfordshire. Her career to […]
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Chris Payne
Chris Payne has 20 years of games industry experience programming for Electronic Arts, Intelligent Games and Traveller’s Tales. He studied Computer Science and was president of the Role-Playing Society at Nottingham University, and has worked in the video games industry for nearly two decades at various studios including Pepper’s Ghost Productions, Electronic Arts and Intelligent […]
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Professor Sir David Payne
Professor David Neil Payne CBE FRS FREng is a leading Professor at the University of Southampton and Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre. A world class pioneer of technology, his work has had a great impact on telecommunications and laser technology over the last forty years. The vast transmission capacity of today’s internet results directly […]
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Professor Mike Payne
Professor M.C. Payne holds the Chair of Computational Physics in the University of Cambridge. He has worked on quantum mechanical total energy calculations since 1985, is the author of the first principles total energy pseudopotential code CASTEP and has been involved in the development of the linear scaling code ONETEP and the LOTF (Learn-On-The-Fly) hybrid […]
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Mags Patten
Mags leads the delivery of the Arts Council’s fourth strategic goal: ensuring the leadership and workforce in the arts, museums and libraries are diverse and appropriately skilled. She is also responsible for work in areas of public policy including health and wellbeing, criminal justice and socio-economic disadvantage. Mags leads on communication between the Arts Council […]
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Walt Patterson
Walt Patterson is Associate Fellow in the Energy, Environment and Resources Department at Chatham House in London, UK, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex. Born in Canada, he has lived in the UK since 1960. A postgraduate nuclear physicist, he has been actively involved in energy and environment since the late 1960s. […]
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Phil Parker
Phil is a screenwriter, credits include ‘Hockey King’ (China); ‘Manou – the Swift’, (Germany). Phil Parker is also one of Europe’s leading content development consultants – productions include ‘Wallace and Gromit – Curse of the Were Rabbit’ ; ‘Terry Prachett’s – Hogfather’ and “Bach In Brazil’ for Disney International. His clients have included Aardman Animation, […]