Suzie Harvey

Chair

Suzie is an experienced global business leader with a background in academia and expertise in life sciences, healthcare, clinical research, molecular diagnostics and technology, developed over more than 30 years. She specialises in market entry and growth, as well as building and developing high-performing teams across international markets. Most recently, she served as Director of Global Sales Development at Signant Health. She now holds a portfolio of board, trustee, governor, and consulting roles, supporting organisations in the UK and internationally.

Dr Catherine Jones

Catherine is a Reader in the School of Psychology, Cardiff University and Director of the Wales Autism Research Centre. Catherine’s research aims to improve understanding of autism and support better outcomes for autistic people. She has a particular interest in how relatively basic perceptual processing mechanisms impact on cognition and behaviour, as well as in how autism is perceived and understood. In collaboration with the Welsh Government’s National Autism Team and other academics from Cardiff and Aston Universities, she has been involved in the creation of an award-winning and evidence-based film, ‘The Birthday Party’, that educates professionals in the ‘signs’ of autism. The film has subsequently been translated into several European languages and adopted within national health and educational programmes.

Dr Charlotte Severn

Charlotte is a Research Commercialisation Manager within the Division of Research, Enterprise and Innovation (DREI) at the University of Bristol in which the research Commercialisation team facilitate realising real world impact via licensing and new venture creation. Charlotte focusses on supporting academics in the Life Sciences Faculty transition their academic research from bench to bedside.

In her earlier academic career she obtained a PhD in Biochemistry and conducted postdoctoral research studies in which her work was focussed on haematopoiesis and the interactions of these cells during health and disease.

Dr Glesni Pierce-Jones

Glesni is a Senior Technology Transfer Officer at Cardiff University and works with researchers from the College of Physical Sciences and Engineering to commercialise the outputs of their research either through licensing or new company creation. Glesni joined the University in 2009 and has worked in Technology Transfer for over 15 years. She sits on several Cardiff University spinouts as Non-Executive Director, representing the interests of UC3 Ltd, the University’s wholly owned IP holding company. Glesni currently sits on the board of four companies; Evidence to Impact Ltd, Sequestim Ltd, E2S Ltd and Integrated Powertech Ltd. Prior to joining the University, Glesni completed her DPhil in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford.

 Jed Rual

(he/him)

Jed is a Translational Research Officer at Cardiff University where he leads commercialisation support for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences to maximise the real-world effect of academic research. He is responsible for the identification, protection, and exploitation of intellectual property (IP) through licensing and new company formation. Jed is Non-Executive Director of Cardiff University spinout companies Nisien.ai Ltd. and Evidence to Impact Ltd. He holds leadership positions in the Aspect network, Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, Cardiff University’s IAA portfolio, and is ED&I Lead for The Research Service.

 Paul Harrod

Paul is an experienced social entrepreneur who co-founded the homelessness social enterprise Aspire in 1999, and more recently was the founder of the Together Social Business Group, which creates full-time jobs for ex-offenders by bringing empty properties back into use.  Paul worked at the University of Bristol’s Research and Enterprise Development for six years, and helped support early-stage technology and social impact businesses.  He is a long-standing trustee and non-executive director, and currently sits on the board of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust, the Castle School Education Trust and Wesport.

Dr Victoria Bates

Victoria Bates is Associate Professor in Modern Medical History at the University of Bristol. Her research expertise ranges from Victorian forensic medicine to the contemporary history of NHS architecture and current-day sensory studies. Victoria's Future Leaders Fellowship, ‘Sensing Spaces of Healthcare’ (UKRI, 2020-27), brings together history, medical humanities, spatial/sensory studies and design for the first time. She is currently Impact Director for the School of Humanities at the University of Bristol.

Professor Rona Campbell

Founder

Rona is Professor of Public Health Research and leads the Centre for Public Health Research within the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol. She is the Director of DECIPHer and the Bristol lead for the NIHR School for Public Health Research. Rona leads programmes of research concerned with multiple risk behaviour in adolescence and health promotion in schools. She is currently involved in conducting a number of systematic reviews, including Cochrane Reviews of the WHO Health Promoting School Framework for improving the health and well-being of students and staff, and of interventions to prevent multiple risk behaviours in young people. Rona has a strong interest in methodological research, in particular, how to use qualitative methods alongside quantitative approaches, and how to make better use of social and behavioural theory in public health research. She is involved in a number of randomised trials of health improvement interventions for children and young people. With Professor Laurence Moore she founded DECIPHer Impact, a not-for-profit company dedicated to licensing and supporting the dissemination of evidenced-based, public health improvement interventions.

Professor Laurence Moore

Founder

Laurence Moore is Director of the MRC / CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow. Prior to this, he was founding Director of DECIPHer, a UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence, which is a strategic partnership between Cardiff, Bristol and Swansea Universities, in each of which he previously held teaching and/or research positions in human geography, health services research, medical statistics and public health improvement. He is a social scientist and statistician with a particular interest in the development and evaluation of complex interventions to improve public health, underpinned by frameworks such as the socio-ecological model of health and an awareness of the complex interdependencies between individual, social, environmental and economic determinants of health. Laurence has been involved in the development and evaluation of ASSIST for the past 14 years.