Glyndŵr University's Board of Governors

Recently retired, Colette has over 30 years of experience in education and professional development. She has an honours degree in education and a masters degree in special educational needs.  Having started her career as a secondary school teacher, Colette moved into further education, lecturing on postgraduate professional development programmes and mentoring student teachers. She worked at the North East Wales Institute from 1996 to 2008 specialising in the management of staff and educational development, pedagogical research and human resource strategy.

During her career Colette contributed to numerous Wales and UK wide committees including the SKILL Wales Executive Committee, RSC Executive Committee, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE) Organisation Development Group, and the Higher Education Academy CPD Pilot Group. Colette was awarded a LFHE Fellowship in 2006.

Invited to be a member of the Higher Education Academy Change Academy team in 2004, she worked with universities across the UK on a variety of strategic projects and retired from this in 2008. She actively promoted the interface between research, scholarship, curriculum design and pedagogical effectiveness. Colette has also had published a large number of journal articles and guidance books on strategic approaches to professional development, leadership and learning.

Michael was born in Zimbabwe and trained as an architect at University of Cape Town. 

He managed a Southern African property portfolio for one of the continent’s largest industrial conglomerates before completing an MBA at Witwatersrand University. 

Moving to the UK in 1982, he worked with Dunlop handling a global property portfolio and qualified as a chartered surveyor. 

He then held senior posts taking charge of infrastructure services for a range of commercial and leisure organisations before becoming one of the founding fathers of the FM profession in the UK.

Michael started Larch Consulting in 1995 and as Director of Consulting has led infrastructure strategy programmes for a wide range of household-name organisations including over 25 universities and colleges.

He has been an external examiner for the FM Masters degree at the College of Estate Management, Reading, has just completed a term as the founding chair of Action FM and is Vice Chair of the RICS FM Faculty Group.

Mervyn Cousins was a pupil and Cathedral Chorister at the Minster School, Southwell, in Nottinghamshire and then read Music (BMus and MMus) at the Royal Holloway College, University of London, where he was Organ Scholar.  He was a prizewinner both at University and at the Royal College of Organists examinations. 

After teaching posts in London, and organ-playing appointments at St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street and St James’, Sussex Gardens, Mervyn was appointed as Assistant Director of Music at St Edmundsbury Cathedral in 1987.  He became Director of Music there in 1993 and was also Chorus Master of the Bury St Edmunds Festival Chorus.  Mervyn was Director of Music at the Metropolitan Cathedral from 1997 until the summer of 2003, and was also Organist to the University of Liverpool during this time. 

Mervyn has played, directed choirs and given solo concerts in many countries, as well as adjudicating at festivals in Europe. He began working at the world-renowned Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in September 2003, as its Music Director, and he was then its Chief Executive from 2009 to 2011. 

Mervyn now combines several freelance-based projects, including music examining and choral direction at home and abroad, as well as educational workshops with children and adults throughout the world. 

He has recently returned from engagements in China, and during 2011 to 2012 will be part of Mid Wales Opera's touring initiative to present Benjamin Britten's community opera Noye's Fludde in six venues covering the length and breadth of Wales.

Judge Roger Dutton was born in Wrexham and went to school locally. He was called to the Bar in 1975 and practised at common law chambers in Chester until October 1996 when he was appointed a Circuit Judge.

He now sits in the Crown Court in Chester and the North West. Since its inception he has been an interviewing judge for the Judicial Appointments Commission.

He is a tutor judge with the Judicial Studies Board. He serves on various justice committees in the area and since 2005 had been the Honorary Treasurer of Her Majesty’s Council of Circuit Judges.

Adam Fuller was born and bred in Wrexham and studied for a BA (Hons) in Business Management at Glyndŵr University.
He completed his degree in 2011 and was elected Student Guild president for the academic year 2011-12.

Adam is a keen follower of football, in particular Tottenham Hotspur FC, while other sporting interests include tennis, bowling and hockey. Adam aims to ensure the student voice is stronger than ever at Glyndŵr University.

Until his retirement in 2010 Derek Griffin was Chief Executive of CAFCASS CYMRU and a senior civil servant with the Welsh Assembly Government.

He was responsible for the effective delivery of services provided by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Services in Wales (CAFCASS CYMRU). He was appointed Chief Executive in April 2008.

Prior to that post he was Regional Director for North Wales, Department for Health and Social Services, Welsh Assembly Government, with day-to-day oversight of 10 NHS organisations with HQs in North Wales.

Before joining the Welsh Assembly Government in 2003, he held a range of posts within local government, including Chief Executive of Wrexham County Borough Coucil from 1995 to 2003, and Group Director at the City of Liverpool Council between 1992 and 1995.

As the Director of Economic Development of Clwyd County Council he was involved in the attraction of new companies to the county, the development of several enterprise companies of which he was a non-Executive Director, and development of the economic infrastructure.

He has a first degree in Industrial Engineering and Management, and a Masters degree in Environmental Planning and Design.

He is a Fellow of Glyndŵr University.

Julia Grime was born and bred in the North West of England. Having obtained a Law degree at the University of Manchester, she became a Chartered Accountant and worked in commercial practice firstly for Ernst & Young, latterly for Grant Thornton.

After 11 years of this, she decided to pursue a career change and moved into Arts administration to follow a life-long passion for theatre and the visual arts. She is currently the General Manager of Clwyd Theatr Cymru, a world-class producing theatre and arts centre in North East Wales.

She has served on the boards of various arts organisations, most notably as a founder trustee of The Plaza, a community cinema in North Merseyside.

Brian Heath is Principal Lecturer at Glyndŵr University in Occupational and Public Health and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health for whom he is also a registered tutor and examiner.

Having taken a first degree in Construction Economics and after qualifying as a Chartered Quantity Surveyor, Brian has worked extensively in the construction industry and has consulted in a range of other industries including Aerospace, Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical, Process Manufacturing, Healthcare and Engineering.

He also has extensive experience in Project Management system development and personnel development.

In addition, he has delivered risk management training programmes in a range of industrial settings in the UK, America and Australia and is a registered tutor for IOSH, NEBOSH, RSH and CIEH.

Brian also undertakes training and development seminars internationally. 

Brian is Chairman of the Health and Safety Development Group and through this contributes to discussions with the Health and Safety Executive on the development of health and safety legislation in the UK.

Following almost twenty years in the NHS as a qualified nurse and manager and then having acquired appropriate teaching qualifications, Pam joined Glyndŵr University’s predecessor NEWI in 1995/6.

Since joining as a nurse teacher, Pam has held the position of programme leader for the pre-registration Nursing programme and is now the Subject Leader for Health Studies in the School of Health, Social Care, Sport and Exercise Sciences.

Pam is a member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the Royal College of Nursing UK.

David Howard spent his early years in Chester, before his family moved to Italy where he was educated in St. George’s School in Rome developing both French and Italian language skills.He studied Economics at Loughborough University and then entered the Lloyd’s International Insurance Market becoming a chartered insurance broker in 1974.

David was elected a Member of Lloyds’s in 1980 before founding LPH Group plc. This in turn gave rise to the establishment of Lloyd’s Broking and Underwriting Firm Lothbury Group, which currently has offices in both London and Chester.

David has resided in the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales for many years and farmed since the early 1980s in both organic and non organic in Denbighshire and Flintshire. David also serves as Council Member of the Country Land and Rural Business Association. He is a member of the Confederation of British Industry in North Wales and serves on Glyndŵr University’s Audit Committee.

John Kenworthy was born in Grimthorpe, Barnsley, in 1950. He was educated at St Wilfred’s RC High School in Featherstone and Christ’s College, Liverpool, and went on to teach at a number of Catholic high schools in the north of England.

He became Headteacher at St Joseph’s RC High School in Wrexham in 1997. Under his leadership St Joseph’s has achieved consistently high GCSE passes and has been recognised as one of the most consistently successful faith schools in Wales.

John himself was nominated for the RAF Award for Headteacher of the Year in a Welsh Secondary School in 2005. John has provided leadership and drive in creating the new St Joseph’s Catholic and Anglican High School, the first joint Catholic and Anglican high school in Wales, which opened in its new state-of-the-art premises in 2006. He worked tirelessly to bring together the churches, the LEA, the Welsh Assembly in this ground-breaking project and brought his school community through a very challenging period which involved moving school premises twice in two years!
 
John Kenworthy is also an author; his acclaimed novel for children set during the miners' strike is called ‘Running Riot’ and was published in the 1980s. John’s other interests include supporting Barnsley FC, travel, reading, sport and writing.
 
John is an Honorary Fellow of Glyndŵr University.

Ian Morris is a past President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Elected to Council in 1984, Ian was previously President of the Liverpool District Society of Chartered Accountants (1978-1979).

He is Partner at Chester-based Morris & Co, and a Partner at Turner Peachey in Shrewsbury.

Ian has held a number of senior positions in the English Speaking Union including Governor, Vice-Chairman of the National Committee for England and Wales, Treasurer to the International Council, and Treasurer to the English Speaking Union of the Commonwealth and the National Committee of England and Wales. He was previously Treasurer and Chairman of the Chester Music Society and Immediate Past Chairman of the Chester Business Club.

Ian was educated at Birkenhead School and Rydal School (now Rydal Penrhos School), Colwyn Bay.

Bruce Roberts was born and educated in Wrexham. After completing degrees in Physics and Philosophy he trained as a Chartered Accountant. He worked as an Audit Manager for a number of years before starting his own accountancy practice in 1997. 

Bruce has served the local community for many years as a Community Councillor and as a school governor.
 
Bruce served as a co-opted member of the Board's Audit Committee  prior to being appointed as an independent member of the Board.

Vincent Ryan was born and educated in Wrexham. Having achieved a law degree at University of Wales, Cardiff he joined Allington Hughes Solicitors as a trainee in 1981 and was admitted as a Solicitor in 1984. He rose to Partner with Allington Hughes by 1988 and remained there until 2009 specialising in a number of areas including; employment law, criminal law disability rights, personal injury, commercial contracts and civil litigation.

During his time at Allington Hughes he worked part time as an employment judge (2002 – 2009). He is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and trustee of a number of voluntary organisations and private trusts including chairman of trustees of the Charles Lloyd Foundation and the Wrexham Diocesan Child Protection Management Committee.

Vincent studied for an MA in Healthcare Law & Ethics at Manchester University graduating in 2009.  In the same year Vincent was appointed as a salaried Employment Judge of the Employment Tribunals (England and Wales) assigned to the Manchester and Liverpool Region.

Professor Michael Scott was educated at the University of Wales, Lampeter and Nottingham University and gained his PhD from De Montfort University.

He is a distinguished literary scholar having written numerous books and articles and edited two major series, most notably the influential Text and Performance series which helped develop Masters programmes in a new approach to Shakespeare Studies in the UK, the USA, Australia and elsewhere. Among his books are Renaissance Drama and a Modern Audience, Shakespeare and the Modern Dramatist and John Marston’s Plays: Theme, Structure and Performance.

He has spent over thirty five years in the higher education sector devoted to social inclusion and the opening up of universities to the community. He was previously Pro Vice-Chancellor of De Montfort University, Leicester, which he joined in 1989 from Sunderland Polytechnic where he was Professor of English and Head of the School of Humanities.

 For fourteen years he was Visiting Professor of English at Georgetown University, Washington DC which honoured him with the Bicentennial Award for Distinguished Teaching and Scholarship in 1989.  He was a Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester, Oxford during 2010-2011.

Since his appointment to Wrexham in 2001, Professor Scott has led the team that has created Glyndŵr University.  He has been Chairman of the UNESCO Cymru Wales Committee, of the North Wales Film Commission and the North Wales Events Commission and has served on the BBC Council for Wales.

He has linked Glyndŵr University with universities in China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Russia and across Europe.  In Wales, Glyndŵr University has expanded across the North East working with AirBus in the development in Flintshire of a new teaching and research centre in advanced composite material technologies.  In Denbighshire it has developed Optic Glyndŵr in St Asaph which has become a significant European funded centre for research in ultra precision optical surface technologies relating particularly to the European Extra Large Telescope project.  Working with companies such as Sharp it is similarly engaged in solar energy research and in holographics.

In 2011 under his leadership Glyndŵr University opened a Glyndŵr University campus in London taking into the University, the London School of Management and Science and also acquired the Glyndŵr University Racecourse Stadium in Wrexham and the Colliers Park Sports Training Facility in Gresford for the benefit of the University’s students and the community which the University serves whilst ensuring also a home ground for Wrexham AFC.

Michael Scott was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Clwyd in 2009.  He is married with two daughters and a grandson, Sam and lives in Marford, Wrexham.

Professor Peter Toyne was appointed to the post of Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of Liverpool Polytechnic in 1986.

His appointment to this senior position followed a very successful career in HE both as an academic and as a senior manager at a wide range of HEIs across the UK including the University of Exeter, Bishop Otter College, Chichester, and the North East London Polytechnic.

Under his leadership Liverpool Polytechnic grew and developed to become, as Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), one of the largest HEIs in the UK.

During his career in university management Professor Toyne was also appointed to a number of senior public appointments including chair or member of many bodies involved in Higher Education, including Vice Chair of CPD, Chair of CNAA Committee on Access and Qualifications, and Chair of CVCP Environmental Committee.

Professor Toyne has a keen interest in the environment and has been appointed to Chair of Groundwork Merseyside and member of World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) Board, as well as a member of the Advisory Board of Forum for the Future working with Jonathan Porritt and Sara Parkin.

Professor Toyne retired from LJMU in 2000 and since then has continued to make a major contribution to public life in Liverpool and North West England.

His many senior appointments since 2000 include: High Sheriff of Merseyside (2001-02); Chair, Liverpool Capital of Culture Bid; Chair, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; National Chairman, Friends of Cathedral Music; Member of National Probations Service Merseyside Area Board (and chair of its Audit Committee); Chair, Woodlands Hospice Appeal; Chair, Liverpool Cathedral Trust and member of Cathedral Council;  President, Liverpool YMCA;  President, Liverpool Organists’ Association; and member of the Everyman Theatre Board.

Reflecting his academic interests, Professor Toyne has also published a wide range of books and articles in learned journals on various topics in human geography, mainly on environmental matters - e.g. World Problems (1969) and Recreation and Environment (1974) - together with three major government reports: Educational Credit Transfer (1979); Environmental Responsibility in Further and Higher Education (1993); Taking the Environment Agenda Forward (1996).

Professor Toyne was awarded a CBE in 2009 for his services to Liverpool.

Dr. Wademan is passionate about a Wales of high value-added jobs within a dynamic ever-changing environment. Resilience and opportunism are key to survival in a complex adaptive system where conditions and stimuli are changing in real time as exemplified by today’s economic environment.

In pursuit of her passion, Dr Wademan has been working both within industry and with regional governmental bodies. In 2002 she was appointed as a founder member of the First Minister’s Economic Research Advisory Panel (ERAP) and in 2006 she was appointed to the Department for the Economy and Transport (DE&T) Ministerial Advisory Group (MAG). Her membership of both ERAP and MAG is unique thus providing an unique insight into the policy-making process in Wales and offering the opportunity to contribute ideas to the centre of Welsh government. Membership of these bodies allows much cross-fertilization of ideas amongst experts from a wide range of disciplines and experience. From 1998 to date Dr. Wademan has served on various health boards and headhunted by the Welsh Assembly Government to transfer leadership and management expertise from the private sector for the benefit of a failing local authority.

The ability to pursue these roles with governmental bodies is due to her successful career as an advisor to high-tech R&D companies; this advisory role pursued through her own company (van Helsing Limited) and as an associate of a well-known international organization. Van Helsing Limited was formed in 1995 after Dr. Wademan had spent 15 years as an employee in the international defence and airspace management industries leading state-of-the-art electronic systems development projects.

Ian Williams is a strategic change manager within the Welsh Government.
 
Ian joined the Welsh Assembly Government as Director of International Business Wales (IBW) in 2006 with responsibility for managing all inward investment into Wales, as well as encouraging Welsh firms to improve their competitiveness by internationalising their businesses.

Ian became Director North Wales (leading economic development in the region) in 2008 and had pan-Wales accountability for the enterprise function (supporting growing businesses and entrepreneurs).

Ian is originally from Bethesda in North Wales and is a fluent Welsh speaker.

He has 20 years’ experience as an oil company executive with Shell International. Prior to joining Shell he spent some time as a pop singer and a television presenter in Wales.

Ian is married to Nest Williams, a television journalist with BBC Wales.