Michael Bennett

Associate Director of Social Mobility & Widening Participation

Leadership of Social Mobility & Widening Participation Department. Overall accountability for widening participation strategy and King’s Access and Participation Plan.

michael.j.bennett@kcl.ac.uk

Joanna Marchant

Head of Social Mobility & Education

Strategic lead for the department’s approach to social mobility, including school programmes, attainment raising, partnerships, and community organising.

joanna.marchant@kcl.ac.uk

Luke Chapman

Head of Widening Participation and Fair Access

Strategic lead for the department’s programmes, projects and support learners and their supporters. Strategic lead on the department’s approach to fair access.

luke.c.chapman@kcl.ac.uk

Jack Mollart-Solity

Head of What Works

Strategic lead for the department’s research and evaluation team, What Works. What Works remit covers pre-entry access and on course success for underrepresented groups. 

jack.mollart-solity@kcl.ac.uk 

Strategic oversight of the department’s pre-16 programmes; Step Up Scholars, King’s Scholars, Scholars+, Parent Power and our work in Hastings. Line management of pre-16 programmes team.

Managing the King’s Scholars programme in years 6 and 7. Promoting the Gameplan website and delivering a strategy to support students outside of London through developing a remote resource based on the King’s Scholars programme.

Managing the King’s Scholars programme in years 8 and 9. Managing parental engagement programme, Parent Power, as well as our work in Hastings.

Supporting with the planning and delivery of pre-16 related activity including leading on KS Connect and KS Challenges. Leading on administrative tasks for the King’s Scholars scheme, as well as undertaking financial procedures for the department.

Manages the King’s Scholars programme in year 9. Leads on, Scholars+, an attainment raising programme for years 10 and 11. Supports with the development and delivery of Parent Power.

Strategic oversight and development of the department's internal and external partnerships approach, and management of key departmental partners and academic departments. Oversees delivery & strategic development of OfM, and partnership activity. Line manages the Partnerships and OfM team.

Leads on work experience, clinical skills & admissions support, & development of KS2 & KS3 Healthcare streams. Co-leads the Medview & Dentview programmes. Supports the K+ & Sutton Trust Medicine & Dentistry streams.

Leads KS4 Medical Activity Days, and the KS5 Medical & Dentistry Lecture Series. Co-leads the Medview & Dentview programmes. Supports the K+ & Spotlight Medicine & Dentistry streams.

Leads on the communications and administration to deliver events with the department’s key partners, including The Brilliant Club, IntoUniversity, Realising Opportunities and The Armitage Foundation. Supports on Outreach for Medicine programmes. Leads on the OfM student & teacher newsletters and the OfM schools outreach programme.

Strategic development of department's work with Priority Groups and Communities, including care-experienced, estranged, forced migrants, young carers, Black and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller students. Line management of Priority Groups and Communities team.

Supports care-experienced and estranged students to access university. This role develops and runs our flagship tutoring programme for KS3 children in care and works with internal stakeholders to support access for care-experienced and estranged students.

Supports care-experienced and estranged students to access university. Delivers our two day transition event for new care-experienced and estranged learners, creates application guidance for care-experienced and estranged learners, works across the department to ensure care-experienced and estranged students access and benefit from our programmes, and co leads on our King's Advocate Award for social workers and teachers.

Supports forced migrants, young carers and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller students to access university. Creates application guidance for forced migrants and young carers, works across the department to ensure forced migrants and young carers access and benefit from our programmes, and works with internal stakeholders to support access for forced migrant and young carer students.

Supports Black students to access university. Manages student ambassador scheme. Co-Lead for King’s advocate award.

Oversees the delivery and strategic development of our Post-16 programmes, including K+, Sutton Trust and Kent to King's. Line manages the post-16 Programmes team.

Management of the Sutton Trust Summer School and expansion of KCLWP work beyond London, including Kent2King's. Development of Pride Power LGBT scheme. Communications and media work.

Responsible for operational delivery and development of the Year 12 K+ programme. Oversees recruitment and selection of new K+ cohorts and leads work on the expansion of K+ outside London.

Responsible for operational delivery and development of the Year 13 K+ programme. Oversees recruitment and selection of new K+ cohorts and leads on K+ mentoring and raising attainment projects.

Manages administrative support for the K+ progrogramme. Supports with the organisation and delivery of events in the post-16 team. Facilitates K+ mentoring project.

Co-ordinates the design and implementation of robust research projects to help gain a better understanding of student experiences.

mansor.2.rezaian@kcl.ac.uk

Manages evaluation strategies throughout Widening Participation and Student success, using a range of methodologies inc. experimental and quasi-experimental research design. 

Supports with the design, implementation and analysis of evaluation projects to assess the impact of Widening Participation programmes.

Supports the Team with applying behavioural insights to the design, delivery and analysis of research projects to understand student motivations and behaviours.