The Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology is led by Professor Mak Sharma. Mak delivered outstanding leadership across four highly successful departments during a distinguished 35-year career at Birmingham City University (BCU), consistently achieving growth in income, reputation, and academic innovation. With expertise spanning electronic engineering, computer science, and business, he has led enterprise projects valued at over £14 million across sectors including computer networks, IoT, data analytics, logistics, niche vehicle optimisation, and healthcare education.

Lucy is the Director of the Centre of Academic Persistence at Arden University. Qualified with Bachelors, Masters and Doctor of Philosophy, Lucy is also an avid conference presenter, guest speaker and sharer of practice in the HE community. Lucy is an experienced senior leader of foundation year provision in a HE context working with different sizes of provision and subject-areas and previous award-winning ‘Lecturer of the Year’ at the University of Northampton in 2019.