New Trustees Appointed

I’m very pleased to say that following  our advertising earlier in the year we have appointed The Very Reverend Peter Bradley, Dean of Sheffield, and Professor Jackie Marsh of the University of Sheffield to the Board of Trustees.
Professor Jackie Marsh was appointed to a chair in the University of Sheffield’s School of Education in January 2007. She is currently Head of the School of Education.  In Sheffield, she has taught on university-based and distance learning postgraduate courses at diploma,  master’s and doctoral level, and has acted as an external examiner for PhDs at a number of universities in England, the United States and Australia. She has published research on children and young people’s home use of information and communication technology for educational purposes, and children’s playground games and rhymes in the new media age.   A consultant to the BBC and the Open University for Child of Our Time in 2004 and to BBC CBeebies Channel in 2005-6, she was President of the United Kingdom Literacy Association between 2005 and 2007 and is founding editor of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.  She began her career as a primary school teacher at Park Hill Primary School and subsequently Sharrow Nursery Infant School in Sheffield, taking up her first academic appointment, as Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Sheffield Hallam University, in 1995.
The Very Reverend Peter Bradley became Dean of Sheffield in 2003. He served as Chaplain to Gonville and Caius College in the University of Cambridge between 1990 and 1995, supporting students from non-traditional backgrounds as they developed the skills and self confidence to make the most of the opportunities on offer at the University.  He graduated with a BA Honours degree in Theology and Religious Studies from Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge in 1986, going on to take up positions in Church of England parishes in Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.  At Sheffield Cathedral, he chairs the Cathedral Archer Project Charitable Trust, the largest charity in the South Yorkshire region working with the homeless, as well as leading a programme commissioning new work from artists including Corin Mellor, Tariq O’Regan and Brian Fell.  He is active in campaigning to combat racism and to promote the integration of minority groups in the region.  A student of OCA, he is currently studying drawing.
They will join the existing Board which comprises:
Chris Jelley (Chairman): former Head of Education and Children’s Broadcasting at Yorkshire Television and is a Non-Executive Director of Bradford Hospitals Trust;
Cathy Baxandall: Company Secretary of Marshalls Group and a board member of Yorkshire Youth and Music;
Shiela Carlton: former Associate Director of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE);
Alison Churchill: Head of Faculty for Art, Media and IT at South Staffordshire College;
Peggotty Graham: former Dean of Social Sciences at the Open University;
Ros Morpeth: former Director of the National Extension College;
Dick Spelman: former Marketing Director for Halifax Bank of Scotland.