Find out more about the teams working on Social Mobility at King’s by emailing us at outreach@kcl.ac.uk’

 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 Garcia (she/her)

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

Mansor Rezaian (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.

Nafeesa Mistry (she/her)

• Administrative Officer
• Provides administrative support for the Leadership team and the Managers in the Social Mobility and Widening Participation Department

Vacant

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Manager 
• 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.

Mariana Werdine (she/her)

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Senior Officer 
• 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)

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Senior Officer
• Manages the King's Scholars programme in year 8. Manages parental engagement programme Parent Power, as well as our work in Hastings.

Eleanor Taylor (she her)

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Senior Officer
• Manages the King's Scholars programme in year 9. Leads on Scholars+, an attainment raising programme for years 10 and 11.

Nima Mukherjee (she/her)

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Officer
• Supports with 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 

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Manager 
• 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.

Jake Featherstone (he/him)

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Senior Officer
• 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.

Vacant

• Social Mobility Community Organiser
• Leads on the young people and parents strand of South London Listens in partnership with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Citizens UK. Works with school staff to set up Be Well spaces that support wellbeing, promote better mental health in our school communities and teach community organising as a method for change. Manages Spanish speaking parental engagement programme: Empoderando Familias.

Aniqa Rob (she/her)

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Officer   
• 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.

Charlotte Mannix-Pole (she/her)

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Manager
• 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)

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Senior Officer 
• 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)

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Senior Officer   
• 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

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Officer   
• Responsible for managing the administrative support needed to deliver events aimed at Priority Groups and Communities, including young carers, forced migrants, care-experienced, estranged, Black, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller students. Assists with delivery of the K+ Aspire Network, Student Ambassador Programme, King’s Advocate Award programmes.

Frances Ballaster Harriss (she/her)

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Manager
• Strategic oversight and development of our Post-16 programmes. Managing the K+ Year 12, Year 13 and King's+ programmes. Line manages the Post-16 Programmes team.

Kirsty McLaren (she/they)

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Senior Officer
• 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.  

Zack Hurst (he/him)

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Senior Officer
• Responsible for operational delivery and development of the Year 13 K+ programme. Leads on the King's+ Programme of support for undergraduate students. 

Kate Atkins(she/her) 

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Senior Officer   
• 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 Life Science & Medicine, Dentistry, Psychology, and Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences K+ subject streams.

Ellen Davies (she/her)

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Senior Officer
• 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 Law, Arts & Humanities, Social Science & Public Policy, and Business & Economics K+ subject streams.

Vacant(she/her)

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

Katherine Sela

• 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.

Nadia Chechlinska

• Research and Evaluation Manager
• Manages evaluation and research projects 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. 

Su Morris (she/her)

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

Victor De Franceschi (he/him)

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

Lizzie Simpson (she/her)

• Senior Data Officer
• Supports statistical analyses throughout Widening Participation and Student Success, using a range of methodologies.

Thomas Masterman

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

Rosanna Ayton (she/her)

• Head of Student Transition
• Strategic lead for the university’s approach to Student Transition including personal tutoring, interventions to close continuation gaps, and the on-course experience of care-experienced, estranged and forced migrant students (Priority Groups).

Chinelo Bennett (she/her)

• Head Student Outcomes
• Strategic responsibility to deliver the whole institutional approach to improving the outcomes for underrepresented groups and closing the attainment gaps. This includes the delivery of programmes and projects such as Conversations About Race, Civic Leadership Academy, Inclusive Education Student Partners, Inclusive Education Network and Kings 100.
• Race Equality Charter lead

Student Transition

Arcadia Woods (she/her) (maternity cover provided by Susanna Davies)

• Student Transition Manager
• Oversight of projects and services relating to both personal tutoring and transition into, through and out of King’s.

Susanna Davies (she/her) (secondment cover provided by Thea Jean (she/her)

• Personal Tutoring Senior Officer
• Supports academic staff who deliver personal tutoring, through communications, training and resources.

Sia Tehfeh (she/her)

• Student Transition Projects Senior Officer
• Planning and delivery of projects relating to student transition into, through and out of King’s, including Faculties Improving Transition and Officially King’s.

Leeonnie Hayles

• Student Transition Manager
• Leads the university’s mission to improve the student experience and success of care-experienced, estranged and forced migrant students.

Student Outcomes 

Tamara Kwofie (she/her)

• Student Outcomes Manager (Attainment)
• Strategic oversight of student attainment projects including Conversations about Race.
• Oversight of the Attainment Workstream meeting and Faculty consultation meetings.

Rochelle Smith (she/her)

• Student Outcomes Senior Project Officer (Conversations about Race)
• Planning and delivery of the Conversations about Race engagement programme.
• Work with faculties to support work to close their attainment gaps.

Lazara Morgan (she/her)

• Student Outcomes Manager (Leadership Programmes)
• Strategic oversight and development of student leadership programmes, including the Civic Leadership Academy, Inclusive Education Student Partners programme and Kings100.

Fahmida Ahmed (she/her)

• Student Outcomes Senior Project Officer (Civic Leadership)
• Project manages the Civic Leadership Academy. The aim of the project is to develop student's leadership skills and career readiness through work placements and a bespoke learning curriculum.

Sakinah Drief (she/her)

• Student Outcomes Senior Project Officer (Kings 100)
• Project manages the Inclusive Education Student Partners which is a targeted initiative that ensures BME student insights are embedded into core work.
• Leads the Kings 100 programme which aims to work closely with student groups to gather insights on a range of topics critical to the college.

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Victoria Summergill (she/her)

• KCLSU Student Wellbeing & Welfare Manager
• Strategic development of the student-led wellbeing service, KCLSU Wellbeing, that aims to improve the wellbeing of King’s community in partnership with students.

Lottricia Millet (she/her)

• KCLSU Peer Support Coordinator
• Project lead for Peer Support Development Project, delivering mentoring programmes that aim to improve quality and consistency of peer mentoring at King's