Lynne is Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Central Lancashire with responsibility for academic development, employability and partnerships. Previously Lynne was Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic and Dean of the Lancashire Law School at UCLan.

Lynne has many years’ experience of curriculum development, quality assurance and enhancement of student experience across educational disciplines and in legal professional and academic education. She has been involved on panels as a chair or member reviewing quality and student experience in more than 30 international institutions and at many UK universities and colleges, as well as undertaking roles on various Boards of Governors. She is an Assessor of legal education provision for the legal professional bodies in England and Wales. She has participated in national working parties and groups to review and enhance education and policy.

Lynne works closely with the University’s international office to enhance international student experience and has travelled widely to support international students. As chair of the University’s UK and Overseas Partnership review panel and as Dean she helped to develop UCLan’s work with partner Universities and Colleges from several countries. .

Alongside her academic background, Lynne is a practising lawyer with expertise in Trusts and Property laws and has several years’ experience in private practice. She has a strong professional and academic interest in education law, equality and diversity law and in social issues around improvement of social mobility and access to justice. She has contributed as a key note speaker at several UK and international conferences and advisory meetings on these issues, including conferences organised with senior members of the Chinese Government to discuss proposals for Constitutional reform relating to equality and diversity in Chinese education.

Lynne has led several externally funded high value research projects, frequently working in collaboration with international partners. She has been involved in developing employer networks, industry Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and social enterprises to help to improve students’ employability and enterprise skills, their resilience and to raise their aspirations.

Current Responsibilities

• Academic Development
• Employability
• Partnerships

Lynne is a Member of the following UCLan Committees

• Executive Team
• Senior Leadership Team
• Student Experience Committee
• Academic Board

Representation on External Bodies

• Preston Inc. Law Society
• Runshaw Corporation Board
• Visions Learning Trust Board
• Applied Policy Sciences Unit Board
• Guild UTC Board

Liz Bromley joined UCLan in September 2016 after four years as Registrar and Secretary of Goldsmiths, University of London. Having read English at Worcester College, Oxford in the early 80s, Liz lived in the Middle East, teaching English and working for Japan Airlines before moving to Oman with a young family.

Liz joined the Open University in 1996, leaving eventually after serving a number of years as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Health and Social Care, responsible for Quality, Students and the academic staff of the Faculty working in the OU’s 13 Regional Centres. She then had a spell at the AUA as Executive Director, before joining Salford University as the Director of a brand new department, Student Life, which delivered the full range of student support services, plus accommodation, catering and sports.

Liz is Deputy Chair of the Mulberry Multi Academy Trust, a Board member of The Association of Higher University Administrators (AHUA) and of Common Purpose and has served for a number of years as a Justice of the Peace. She has four children, all of whom have lived through - and survived - the significant changes to Higher Education over the past 10 years, and a stepson who is at university.

Current Responsibilities

Liz is responsible for the corporate planning process and the related services responsible for the delivery of the Strategic Plan. She is responsible for UCLan’s International Strategy, for academic administration and Strategic Marketing & Communications. In addition, Liz is overseeing the work of the Finance Department whilst a new Finance Director is being recruited.

Liz is a Member of the following UCLan Committees:

• Senior Executive Team
• Academic Board
• Equality and Diversity Executive Group

Liz is a Director of the following University Companies:

• UCLan Overseas Ltd
• UCLan Cyprus

Representation on External Bodies:

• AHUA
• NCEE
• Mulberry Academy Trust
• Common Purpose

Michael has extensive experience of designing and delivering strategic and operational change programmes both within business information systems and in wider a business context. Michael has 10 years experience in technical and engineering roles and 15 years in strategic leadership roles. Since joining UCLan in 1998 Michael has been responsible for transforming the technical IT team into a valued university business partner. In 2008 Michael led the creation of Learning and Information Services (LIS), joining UCLan’s IT and Library services into one integrated service. Since then LIS has also taken on responsibility for all technical and digital services around the university.

Prior to joining UCLan Michael worked within Bolton Metro (Leisure) as IT & Support Services Manager where he was responsible for creating and establishing the organisation’s IT Services and delivered their first IT infrastructure based on distributed LANs.

Prior to this Michael worked for Bass Brewers as Head of Production Services where he was responsible for leading and managing the deployment of large production systems at some of Europe’s largest brewing, productions and distribution plants.

Before joining Bass Brewers Michael worked for British Gas North Western, originally in Customer Services before moving onto Productivity Services.

Current responsibilities

Directorate Lead for:

• Marketing
• Facilities Management
• Learning & Information Services
• Student & Academic Support Services

Committee membership:

• Executive Team
• Senior Leadership Team
• Centralan Holdings Ltd Board
• Death in Service Trustee
• Honorary Awards Committee
• Masterplan Vision Board
• Safety Health and Environment Committee

Ken joined the University in August 2016. He is responsible for ensuring that the University offers a professional, flexible and innovative Human Resources function with responsibility for staff recruitment, administration, engagement and development. His role involves driving the organisational development and culture change to underpin the realisation of the University Strategy.

Ken, who originally hails from Burnley, was HR Director of BBC North from 2008-2016. He oversaw the corporation’s HR agenda during and after the £200m implementation of the new BBC North organisation including the migration of staff to the Media City location and the development of a new creative and collaborative culture. Prior to this he held senior Human Resources and Organisational Development roles at British Aerospace, Halifax and HBOS.

Ken graduated from the University of Oxford with a First Class Honours Degree in Jurisprudence (Law and Philosophy).

Current responsibilities

• Staff recruitment
• Staff development and engagement
• Reward and recognition
• HR service and administration

Committee membership

• Executive Team
• Senior Leadership Team
• Staff Experience Steering Group

Ian joined the University in September 2014. Prior to his appointment Ian was the County Secretary and Solicitor at Lancashire County Council. In addition to being the Chief Legal and Governance Adviser to the County Council Ian also played a major role in creating and supporting a wide range of partnerships and joint ventures including a number of limited companies such as the Lancashire Economic Partnership, Lancashire County Enterprise Limited and Marketing Lancashire. Ian is Secretary and Legal Advisor to the University Board and Company Secretary to the majority of the University’s subsidiary companies. He also heads up a significantly enhanced Legal and Governance team and is a member of the University’s Executive Management Team.

Current Responsibilities

• Corporate Governance
• The provision and procurement of legal advice to the University and its Companies
• Internal Audit and Risk Management
• Oversight of Innovation and Enterprise activity

Ian is Secretary of the University Board and its Committees and Secretary of the University’s various subsidiary Companies.

Ian is a Member of the Executive Team and the Senior Leadership Team.

Ebrahim has been Provost for UCLan’s Burnley campus since 2017. However, his relationship with UCLan is a long-standing one and he has held a number of positions including Senior Lecturer, Ambassador for Students, and Strategic Coordinator for Student Retention, amongst others, since 1997.  During this period he has also served as a member of the University Board and the Board’s Nominations Committee.

As the Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience) at the University of Bolton, Ebrahim had responsibility for student retention and satisfaction and the TIRI Interdisciplinary Research Centre.  His research interests continue to focus on key dimensions of the student experience.

Ebrahim has a growing public profile as the Deputy Leader of Bolton Council and is closely involved in the Northern Powerhouse project through his association with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.  He is also a Board Member of the Growth Company and the Manchester Airport Secured Lending Group.

Ebrahim has also served at a national level on the UK Government’s Commission on Integration and Cohesion and has worked as an Independent Expert Adviser for the Audit Commission.

Current Responsibilities

• Responsibility for all aspects of the University's campus in Burnley.

Committee Membership

• (Chair) University Ethics Committee
• Senior Leadership Team
• Academic Board
• Academic Leadership Group
• Student Experience Committee
• Research and Innovation Committee
• (Chair) Burnley Campus Operational Group

Representation on External Bodies

• ASQAC
• East Lancashire Strategic Steering Group
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy