Find out more about the teams working on Social Mobility at King’s below:

 Michael Bennett (he/him)

• 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.

Effy Alexandrou (she/her)

• Head of Social Mobility & Education
• Strategic lead for the department’s approach to social mobility, including school programmes, attainment raising, partnerships, and community organising.

Luke Chapman (he/him)

• Head of Widening Participation and Fair Access
• Strategic lead for the department’s post-16 programmes, support for priority groups, regional outreach and contextual admissions.

Jack Mollart-Solity (he/him)

• 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. 

Micheala Whitely 

• Widening Participation Manager (Pre-16 Team)
• 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.

Louis Robert-Keane

• Widening Participation Senior Officer (King’s Scholars, Year 6-7)
• Manages the King’s Scholars programme in years 6 and 7. Promotes the Gameplan website and delivers a strategy to support students outside of London through developing a remote resource based on the King’s Scholars programme.

Eleanor Milne (she/her)

• Widening Participation Senior Officer (King's Scholars, Year 8)
• Manages the King’s Scholars programme in years 8 and 9. Manages parental engagement programme, Parent Power, as well as our work in Hastings.

Vacant

• Widening Participation Officer (Pre-16)
• Supports the planning and delivery of pre-16 programmes activity including leading on KS Connect and KS Challenges. Manages administrative support for the King’s Scholars scheme, as well as undertaking financial procedures for the department.

Vacant

• Widening Participation Senior Officer (King’s Scholars, Year 9 & Scholars+)
• 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.

Abi Robertson (she/her)

• Widening Participation Manager (Partnerships)
• Strategic oversight and development of the department's internal and external partnerships approach. Management of key departmental partners and academic departments. Oversees delivery & strategic development of OfMD and partnerships activity. Line manages the Partnerships and OfMD team.

Sarah Adesina (she/her)

• Widening Participation Senior Officer (Outreach for Medicine and Dentistry)
• Responsible for the delivery and development of the K+ medicine and dentistry streams. Leads on clinical skills and admissions support, and the development of KS2-3 healthcare streams. Leads on projects with the King’s dentistry school and co-leads KS5 work experience.

Jake Featherstone (he/him)

• Widening Participation Senior Officer (Outreach for Medicine and Dentistry)
• Responsible for the delivery and development of the KS5 Medicine & Dentistry Lecture Series and MDLS+ projects supporting prospective healthcare students across the UK. Leads the KS5 LondonMed collaborative summer school with UCL, Queen Mary & St George’s funded by the MSC and HEE. Co-leads KS5 work experience.

Jenny Edwards (she/her)

• Widening Participation Officer (Outreach for Medicine & Partnerships)
• Responsible for managing the administrative support needed to deliver events with the department’s key partners, including The Brilliant Club, IntoUniversity, The Elephant Group and The Armitage Foundation. Leads the delivery of the KS4-5 MedSoc programme and school communications. Supports the organisation and delivery across Outreach for Medicine and Dentistry programmes and our internal WP Champions community for King’s staff.

Paul Webb (he/him)

• Widening Participation Manager (Priority Groups and Communities)
• Leads strategic development of department's work with Priority Groups and Communities. This includes care-experienced, estranged, forced migrants, young carers, Black and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller students. Line manages Priority Groups and Communities team.

Dean Allotey (he/him)

• Widening Participation Senior Officer (Priority Groups and Communities)
• Supports Black and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller young people to access university. Lead for: the K+ Aspire Network, the Student Ambassador programme and King’s Advocate Award.

Shakeela Simpson-Watson (she/her)

• Widening Participation Senior Officer (Priority Groups and Communities)
• Supports young people from care-experienced, estranged, forced migrant and carer backgrounds to access university. Delivers transition events, creates application guidance and works across the department to Priority Groups access and benefit from our programmes.

Vacant

• Widening Participation Officer (Priority Groups)
• Provides administrate support for the Priority Groups and Communities Team.

Charlotte Mannix-Pole (she/her)

• Widening Participation Manager (Post-16 Programmes)
• 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.

Kirsty McLaren (she/they)

• Widening Participation Senior Officer (Communications and Communities)
• Leads on the design and delivery of our outreach programme targeting widening participation students in Kent. Delivery of Pride Power, a LGBTQ+ network for students enrolled on the K+ programme. Leads on KCLWP online content creation and communications.

James Bryan (he/him)

• Widening Participation Senior Officer (K+ Y12)
• 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.

Mary Finch (she/her)

• Widening Participation Senior Officer (K+Y13)
• Responsible for operational delivery and development of the Year 13 K+ programme. Oversees recruitment and selection of new K+ cohorts. Leads on K+ alumni network and raising attainment projects.

Ellen Davies (she/her)

• Widening Participation Officer (Post-16)
• Manages administrative support for the K+ programme. Supports with the organisation and delivery of events in the Post-16 Programmes team. 

 Mansor Rezaian (he/him)

• Research and Evaluation Manager 
• Manages evaluation and research studies throughout Widening Participation and Student Success, using a range of methodologies inc. experimental and quasi-experimental research design.

Patrycja Holubik (she/her)

• Data Manager
• Manages statistical analyses throughout Widening Participation and Student Success, using a range of methodologies. 

Yasarah Qureshi (she/her)

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

Nadia Chechlinska (she/her)

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

Isabel Fernandez-Moreno (she/her)

• Social Mobility Community Organiser (Mental Health)
• Leads on Be Well Hubs in south London schools in partnership with Citizens UK and local mental health trusts. This role supports the mental health and wellbeing of young people and local communities through community organising.

Yeme Onoabhagbe (she/they)

• Associate Director of Student Transition & Outcomes
• Leadership of Student Transition & Outcomes Department. Professional Services Lead for Inclusive Education and for Student Mental Health & Wellbeing.

Rosanna Ayton (she/her)

• Head of Student Transition
• Strategic lead for the university’s approach to Student Transition including Personal Tutoring and interventions to close continuation gaps such as the Faculties Improving Transition Project and Mature Learner support.

Chinelo Igboayaka (she/her)

• Head Student Outcomes
• Strategic lead for the department’s programmes and projects to improve the outcomes of underrepresented groups and close attainment gaps, including Conversations About Race, Civic Leadership Academy, Inclusive Education Partners and the Inclusive Education Network

Wilna Gracias (she/her)

• Head of Student Mental Health & Wellbeing Strategy
• Strategic lead for the universities priority to support student mental health and wellbeing. Associated projects include the King’s Student Wellbeing Survey, the University Mental Health Charter Programme and Award and the coordination of the cross-institutional, Student Mental Health and Wellbeing Steering Committee