Kriss Fearon – Chair
Kriss Fearon is the Chair of the Trustee Board at the Bayswater Institute, and a senior research fellow at the Centre for Reproduction Research at De Montfort University.
Currently a reproduction researcher focusing on reproductive decision making, donor conception and the use of new reproductive technologies, Kriss has a longstanding interest in digital accessibility, in particular the intersection of technology with EDI. Before becoming a qualitative social researcher, she worked in IT and was a UX practitioner specialising in accessibility. Kriss has co-authored ‘Doing accessible social research’, a practical guide to removing barriers to research participation and holds a doctorate in Sociology from DMU.
Nipull Bhatt
Leader, Senior Manager, Multi-Site Manager, Strategic Thinker & Deliverer, Sales Driver, People Developer, Project Manager, Hospitality SME, Operational & Compliance SME, Retailer.
Nipull has senior management and key decision-making experience, having worked with well-known consumer branks such as McDonald’s, Shake Shack & Debenhams, Sainsbury’s, Marks and Spencer and Aldi. He has extensive knowledge and experience of the retail sector and is passionate about improving the organisational efficiency and the experience of employees, customers and organisational partners. He is particularly interested in the socio-technical approaches to the implementation of technology in organisations.
Malcolm Ballantine
Malcolm Ballantine is a retired organizational psychologist. He began his career as an electronics technician at the BBC where he stayed for eight years. Having then qualified as a psychologist he moved to the British Steel Corporation working on the human aspects of technical change in heavy industry. Next, at Birkbeck College, he taught on the MSc courses in Occupational Psychology, Organizational Behaviour and Computer Science. While at Birkbeck also lectured on the MSc in Ergonomics at University College London. Today this has become the MSc in Human Computer Interaction and on this course he became responsible for teaching socio-technical systems. Later in his career, he worked in both the private and public sectors eventually running his own consultancy. Now retired he lives in rural Suffolk and is a keen member of the local University of the Third Age. Linking back to where he started, he coordinates a group of fellow like-minded members in attempting to create their own electronic technologies for the benefit of the community.
Bob Collingham
Bob’s background is in banking and finance, where he pursued a career in HR management. He was Head of Training & Development at Chartered Trust, a subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank, for a number of years and was latterly Head of Development for the Asset Finance Division of Lloyds TSB, during which time he jointly developed an action learning degree programme.
Penny Jones
Worked as a psychologist in the NHS and in various educational roles before spending five years at the Tavistock Institute. Following work in EAP (French Business School) and research at Peper Harow (Therapeutic Facility for teenagers and young adults) she, with Peter Riach, directed Peper Harow for four years, formed the consultancy PJR and then continued to work, with colleagues, on individual, group and organisational issues across all sectors.
