Anne Newman

Location: Preston | UK

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an experienced course developer and project manager. For over fourteen years I have been delivering enterprise, entrepreneurship and employability learning in the higher education and business sectors.  I am currently the Enterprise Development Manager at UCLan working with students and graduates on development of awareness, mindset and capabilities for enterprise and entrepreneurship. I lead a small team 'Enterprising Students' who deliver social and business enterprise extra-curricular support.  I also work with staff across the University on raising embedding enterprise into the curriculum.

 I am  a qualified ergonomist with a strong background in iterative product development, usability research and testing. I have created and managed a number of innovative enterprise blended learning courses which include, distance learning, face to face teaching, interactive workshops, mentoring programmes and e-learning.

Specialties:
- Project management.
-Enterprise coaching mentoring of staff, students and graduates
-Supporting Creative students and graduates in pre and post business start-up.
-Provision of specialist enterprise workshops and programmes both within and outwith the curriculum.
-Development, design and testing of products for the disabled.
-Supporting disabled students and graduates in Higher Education: careers and business start-up.