Graeme Atherton has been working in the field of access to higher education for years. He leads the National Education Opportunities Network which is the professional organisation for access to higher education in the UK with over 100 organisations as members. Dr Atherton is one of the foremost experts on social mobility and higher education access in the UK specialising in university admissions, participation by those from white working class backgrounds and international, comparative differences
Director National Education Opportunities Network
Graeme Atherton
School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute for the Environment, University of Bristol
Ed Atkins
Ed Atkins works on decarbonisation, energy politics and social justice.
Hertfordshire County Council
Heidi Au
Heidi is Assistant Public Health Analyst at Hertfordshire County Council. Her work currently focuses on the use of data in the surveillance of COVID-19, as well as wider public health programmes. She has completed a master’s degree in Global Health Policy at London School of Economics (LSE), with her thesis on the monitoring of universal health coverage progress in Kenya. Her interest encompasses the monitoring and evaluation of both communicable diseases and health programmes delivery.
MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire
Jesse Norman
Jesse Norman has been the MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire since 2010, and currently serves as Minister of State for Decarbonisation and Technology at the Department for Transport.
Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
Jakob Schneebacher
Jakob Schneebacher is an economist at the CMA’s research-focused Microeconomics Unit. Jakob’s research focuses on when markets work well (and when they do not), and on what makes firms resilient, innovative and productive.
