Professor Jennifer Latto (Chair)
Jennifer Latto is a psychologist whose career has involved practicing as an educational psychologist, university teaching and research, senior university management, and the regional strategic development of higher education at Government Office North West (2002-2004) and the Regional Development Agency (2004-2007)

Her interests in heritage and the arts are reflected in her roles as a Trustee of Tate and Chair of Tate Liverpool Council (1998-2007), and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Granada Foundation

She has a psychology degree from Cambridge University, trained as teacher there, and then as an educational psychologist at University College London. She has practised in Essex and Cheshire.  In 1972 she won a Social Science Research Council scholarship and returned to Cambridge to do research on teacher expectation and self fulfilling prophecies in education. 

Appointed as a lecturer in Educational Psychology in 1979, she held a succession of posts as Head of Education, and then Dean of Education, Health & Social Science at Liverpool John Moores University, where she was awarded a Chair in Educational Psychology in 1991.  She became Provost and the Deputy to the Vice Chancellor from 1994-2002.

During her time as Regional Adviser on Higher Education, she set up the North West Art and Design Research Group, the Leadership Academy for Businesses on Merseyside, Culture Campus in Liverpool, and oversaw substantial funding to the NW universities from the Development Agency for work on innovation in universities  

Ian Bancroft
Ian Bancroft is an Executive Director at Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust. The Trust manages public leisure and cultural services on behalf of Wigan Council. His role at the trust is to manage libraries, heritage and information services and play a corporate management role. Challenges include implementing a new vision for heritage services in Wigan, managing the changes at Wigan Pier and re-developing the history shop, Wigan’s one stop shop for heritage activities.
 
He has worked in range of authorities including unitaries, counties and districts and as well as managing leisure and cultural services has also managed regeneration, policy and performance teams.

Married with two daughters Ian lives on the Wales and North West border in a small hamlet. He has spent the last 5 years renovating a 330 year old house. He is interested in the Anglo-Welsh heritage of his family and how this identity will shape the future of his children. 

Neville Brownlee
Neville Brownlee is head of Charity Effectiveness at the Charity Commission.  He is based in the Commission’s Liverpool office and has lived and worked on Merseyside for eighteen years.

Originally from the North East, he studied history at the University of Wales (Lampeter) and first worked for Cleveland county archaeology unit before moving to London to join the civil service in 1986.

Over the years at the Charity Commission he has dealt with a very wide range of sector issues, the bulk of his career has been spent advising charities on good governance and using the Commission’s powers to help charities change and modernise their trusts.  He was co-author of the Commission policy paper on the charitable status of preservation and conservation charities and has worked on model constitutions for preservation bodies.  His current role is to improve the performance of charities by helping to define best practice and capture knowledge from the Commission’s casework, to share this knowledge widely, and encourage innovation and collaborative working across the sector.

Married with two children, Neville now lives in Formby.  He is still passionate about history, especially military history, and is interested in environmental issues.

Dr Mike Emmerich (NHMF Trustee)
Mike Emmerich is the Chief Executive of Manchester Enterprises (ME), the economic development agency for Greater Manchester.

Prior to joining ME, Mike was Director of the Institute for Political and Economic Governance at the University of Manchester, a multi-disciplinary research institute, and Dean of External Relations in the Faculty of Humanities   Before this, he pursued a career in the political and economic strategy sectors, at the Centre for Local Economic Strategies where he served as Principal Consultant and then Deputy Director from 1991 to 1996.  After a period as a management consultant at Ernst & Young in 1997, he became a Policy Adviser with HM Treasury before becoming Senior Policy Adviser in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit. 

 Roger James
Roger James is an interim manager, specialising in urban regeneration. A Mancunian by birth, Roger studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at University College, Oxford before joining the Atomic Energy Authority as a management trainee.

He worked across a range of functions in London, Oxfordshire and Warrington before being appointed in the early 1990’s as Site Manager of Dounreay, a large research and development facility on the north coast of Scotland. He helped guide the site through a difficult downsizing and restructuring operation as it adjusted to the closure of development activities and the onset of a major decommissioning programme.

It was as part of this process, and through working with the Scottish Development Agencies, that Roger rekindled an interest in economic development and regeneration. In 1998 this led to him becoming Head of an urban regeneration programme in East Manchester aimed at raising aspirations and educational and skill levels in one of the city’s most disadvantaged communities.

Since 2002 he has worked as an interim manager/consultant on a range of regeneration programmes, including brownfield site strategies with English Partnerships, Ordnance Survey and Local Government; a major Housing Renewal initiative with Hull City Council and the East Riding of Yorkshire;  and property and transport related projects with a London borough and a county police force.

As well as a keen interest in heritage issues and a life long passion for history, Roger is a keen mountaineer and Chairman of his local rugby club.  

Edmund Southworth
Edmund Southworth has been the County Museums Officer for Lancashire County Council since 2001. He manages 12 museums and historic sites including two working textile mills and Lancaster Castle.

He is a museum archaeologist by training, with a degree in Ancient History and Ancient History from Lancaster University in 1977. In the 1990’s he was awarded an MPhil from Liverpool University for work on Information Technology in Classical Archaeology.  He is an Associate of the Museums Association.

His first museum job was at the Harris Museums and Art Gallery in Preston. He then spent 20 years at Liverpool Museum where he started off as an Assistant Keeper and ended up as Head of Humanities with the then National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside with responsibility for world wide collections of archaeology and art. He was instrumental in developing the Discovery Centre access concept and the Transatlantic Slavery Gallery. He managed the team developing the flagship World Cultures Gallery at the heart of the newly re-furbished World Museum Liverpool.

His curatorial specialism was the 18th century collecting of Classical Sculpture in Europe and he project managed an extensive Getty funded research programme into the Liverpool collections.

He is a Board member of The World of Glass Museum in St. Helens and has just finished a term on the Council of the Museums Association.

John Whittle

John was born in Warwickshire and spent his childhood between Solihull where he went to school and his Weardale family. While at Leicester University he was a member of the 1969 University Arctic Expedition and completed a Geography and Psychology degree in 1970 and a Post Graduate Certificate of Education a year later. He began his career as a Geography Lecturer in Birmingham where he married Kay in 1972. He has a life long passion for the outdoors, becoming a Queen’s Scout and going on Outward Bound to Scotland while at school. He gained his Mountain Leader’s Certificate in 1972 from Ogwyn Cottage. He has climbed, sailed and skied for most of his life.

John gained a Master of Education degree from Warwick University in 1983. After two Deputy Headships, he became a Head teacher at the age of 38, and in 1993 was appointed as Head teacher of a large North Yorkshire School. His belief in engaging young people in all aspects of their heritage led the curriculum. He continued to be an active classroom practitioner throughout his career teaching Geography and Psychology. He still enjoys the company of young people, and includes them among his friends. He has advised, trained, written and spoken nationally on school leadership as well as acted as an assessor, consultant and trouble shooter for school management. He retired in 2004 after 17 years as a secondary Head teacher.

He and Kay have lived in Cumbria in or near Penrith for 16 years. Both are now semi-retired. John is very proud of his northern family roots and contributes to sustaining the environment and culture of the region. He is a Voluntary Warden for the Lake District National Park Authority, drives the Fellrunner community bus, as well as being in an active partnership with his village farmer. He and Kay are part of Penrith Meeting (Quakers). He is a member of several local and national environmental and cultural charities; He also takes a lively interest in the Arts and regional history.