consultancy, evaluation, change management
DIRECTORS
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Dr. Peter Funnell
Peter has over 20 year’s experience of consultancy and project design, leadership and evaluation in both the public and private sectors. He has enjoyed a distinguished academic career most recently as Director of Enterprise and Executive Dean for the Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences at University Campus Suffolk. He has published widely and enjoys an international research reputation in the field of technology-supported learning. He has undertaken consultancies across Europe, in Australia and the Middle East alongside two BT research fellowships and a Visiting Fellowship at Murdoch University, Australia. He has considerable experience of business planning and economic development and regenration, and supporting small and micro businesses.
He is President of the Suffolk Chamber of Commerce and is the East of England representative on the national advisory committee of the British Chambers of Commerce. He was a member of the Norfolk and Suffolk Local Enterprise Partnership transition board and holds other board positions including Executive Chair of Healthy Ambitions Suffolk, chair of the Eastern Angles Theatre Company and co-opted member of the Council of the Suffolk Agriculture Association. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Dr. Sharon Goddard
Sharon has extensive consultancy experience in the fields of learning and skills, volunteering, audience development, and project evaluation. Sharon's expertise has been gained through a mix of professional roles, specifically: 15 years teaching and managing in arts and humanities further and higher education; six years as a national policy and research lead on learning, skills and young people issues for the Heritage Lottery Fund; as strategic educational planner and commissioner with the Learning and Skills Council in Norfolk; as East of England regional advisor on 14 – 19 education for the UK Government's Department for Children, Schools and Families; as Deputy Director of Children and Learners at the Government Office for the East of England; and as national advisor within the UK Government's Department for Education on careers guidance.
Sharon is a Trustee and Deputy Chair of GEM, the professional association for heritage educationalists. In 2009 she completed work with the Council of Europe supporting the implementation of the Faro Convention on the value of the cultural heritage for society including a chapter: "Heritage Partnerships - promoting public involvement and understanding" for the Council of Europe publication, Heritage and Beyond (2009) Council of Europe Publishing.
E: sharon@oakmeresolutions.co.uk