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 Widening Participation and Widening Participation
• 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. 

Nafeesa Mistry (she/her)

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

Micheala Whitely 

• 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.

Louis Robert-Keane

• 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.

Vacant

• Widening Participation Officer (Pre-16)
• 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.

Abi Robertson (she/her)

• 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.

Isabel Fernandez-Moreno (she/her)

• 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.

Jenny Edwards (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.

Paul Webb (he/him)

• 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.

Hannah Williams (she/her)

• 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.

Charlotte Mannix-Pole (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 K+ undergraduate 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.

James Bryan (he/him)

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Senior Officer
• Responsible for supporting delivery and development of the K+ programme. Supports the Partnerships team with the development of the WP Champions programme.    

Mary Finch (she/her)

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Senior Officer
• Responsible for operational delivery and development of the Year 13 K+ programme. Leads on the K+ Undergraduate Programme and K+ raising attainment projects.

Sarah Adesina (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.

Christine Browne

• Social Mobility and Widening Participation Senior Officer
• Please amend the second bullet point to this: 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.

Ellen Davies (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. 

 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)

• 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.

Emily Calder

• Senior Research and Evaluation Adviser
• Second bullet point for Emily Calder: Leads on research and evaluation projects that use both qualitative and quantitative methodologies to better understand how we can support underrepresented students.

Lizzie Simpson (she/her)

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

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