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ALT Ambassadors
In 2007 ALT created the role of ALT Ambassador. Ambassadors provide informal advice to ALT on matters within their area of interest. They act as advocates for ALT.
Jane Williams
Consultant
Jane's working life has been in FE. In 1996 she became Principal of Wulfrun College and later City of Wolverhampton College. From 2003 she was the Director of the newly established Further Education Standards Unit in the then Department for Education and Skills. In 2007 she became Executive Director for FE, Skills and Regeneration at Becta, where she led a new strategy for embedding the effective use of ICT across the Further Education system. Jane (who now runs her own advisory service in the field of FE leadership, governance and improvement) is Vice Chair of Governors at Birmingham Metropolitan College and a member of the Board of Ufi Ltd. In 2003 Jane was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Education for services to Further Education in the West Midlands. She has been a Fellow of the RSA since 1997.
Terry Mayes
Emeritus Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University
Terry is an Emeritus Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University. He was Director of Research in the Institute for Computer-Based Learning at Heriot-Watt University from its formation in 1990. Before that he was Deputy Director of the Scottish Human-Computer Interaction Centre at Strathclyde University from 1986-1990. His early work with teaching machines was followed by 14 years as a lecturer in psychology at the University of Strathclyde. During the late 1990s he led collaborative projects funded through the UK Research Councils (both ESRC and EPSRC) involving research on the educational potential of vicarious learning. Terry has published widely on pedagogical aspects of learning technology. Since the early 1990s he has been increasingly involved in policy. In 2007 Terry was awarded honorary life membership of ALT
Wendy Hall
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton
Wendy, a founder member of ALT, is Dean of the University of Southampton's Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences. Wendy was a member of the UK Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology until December 2010, and was senior Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering until 2008. From July 2008 to July 2010 she was President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the first person from outside North America to hold this position. Wendy was made a Dame for services to science and technology in the 2009 New Year's Honours list. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 2009. In 2011 Wendy received a lifetime achievement award from the Oxford Internet Institute in recognition of her significant contributions to the development of web technologies and web science research.
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