BUCS AGM and Winter Seminar

Sally Ingram is an award-winning psychotherapist with over 20 years’ experience of working therapeutically with students. Sally works in close collaboration with Newcastle University Student Union to support and safeguard students across the scholarly journey.

Joe leads on student sport, working closely with Newcastle University Sport Services. He has been heavily involved in the ongoing work on raising student’s awareness of the dangers of excess alcohol and dangerous behaviours on student socials, including delivering training to club committees.

Jim Dickinson takes a particular interest in students, governance and higher education regulation and leads on our work with students’ unions. He is a former long standing director at the National Union of Students, where he led on students’ union development, campaigns and political strategy, student engagement and governance.

Jim has served as a Governor in both further and higher education and the voluntary sector, and is a regular contributor to AdvanceHE’s leadership skills for governance programme. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and an obsessive fan of the Eurovision Song Contest.

John served as an army officer before becoming a professional rugby player and European cup winning coach. He has been a sports CEO in the private, public and not for profit sectors including UK Sport, the Rugby Football Union and Youth Sport Trust. In addition to his role at Loughborough University, he is also the Chairman of the English Institute of Sport.