Mrs Lucy Wicksteed

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As a member of the University's Research and External Engagement Service, my role is to grow and develop UWE Bristol's innovation and enterprise activity across the University, connecting with the region's businesses to support collaborative research, student employability, skills and growth.

I lead and manage a number of teams within the REE services Team, which includes responsibility for:

  • Delivering a range of support services to business including grant funding opportunities for R&D and scale-up projects, and KTPs
  • Generating impact from our research, innovation, skills and enterprise activity through commercialisation, policy and other routes.
  • Supporting staff, student and alumni entreprenuers test out new ideas, start businesses, connecting in with the region's enterprise ecosystem
  • Developing and maintaining strong external partnerships with the region's employers across key sectors

I started at UWE Bristol in 2012 as Policy Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor (maternity cover), later joining the University's Research, Business and Innovation team (RBI) to lead on ERDF Innovation Vouchers and then as Lead for the Faculty of Business and Law.

Before this, I worked in consumer policy and communications regulation, spending 8 years at the regulator Ofcom where I led public consultations on 'silent calls' and mobile phone charges. Prior to this I had policy roles at Oftel (Internet and broadband policy) and the National Consumer Council (data protection, freedom of information and ecommerce policy).

I have a BA Hons in Law and Politics from the University of Hull, and studied at the College of Law, London.

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I joined the University in 2011 as Policy Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor.

Before joining UWE, I held various roles in policy, strategy and stakeholder management - most recently at the competition media regulator Ofcom where I led teams of lawyers, economists and market/business analysts to deliver evidence-based policy solutions to regulatory issues.

Prior to that I was Policy Adviser at the National Consumer Council where I undertook research and lobbied government on Data Protection, Freedom of Information and e-Commerce policy.

I have a BA (Hons) in Law and Politics from the University of Hull and studied at the College of Law, London.

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