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Designing, project management and commissioning membership/CRM or other
systems
Project managing and/or delivering system upgrades and migrations
Billing & cost reviews.
Chris Jury,
producer GFTU Liberating Arts Festival, Director Public Domain.
Chris studied Drama/English at Hull University and began working as an actor in
the theatre with such names as Mike Bradwell, Danny Boyle and Anthony
Minghella; And with companies as diverse as Hull Truck, The Bush and Stratford
East. He also worked extensively in film and TV appearing as Mr Knowles in
Grange Hill (circa 1982), as Deadbeat in Dr Who (circa 1985), in Anthony
Minghella’s, What If It’s Raining, Stay Lucky with Dennis Waterman and most
notably as Eric Catchpole in over 50 episodes of the BBC’s long running series,
Lovejoy. Since Lovejoy he has turned his attention back to writing and directing
but has also appeared as a regular in Alamo’s Starting Out and Noah’s Ark for
ITV. He chairs the Midlands TUC culture committee and is a member of the
Writers Guild of Great Britain and is directing one of his plays for young people
and community organisations called The Liberty Tree.
Steve Orchard
is currently managing director of Quidem Radio and a Trustee of
the GFTU Educational Trust, he was operations director of GCap Media. He
graduated from Oxford University with two degrees - one in history, and a
Masters in applied social studies. He became a hospital porter active in NUPE
and also running the hospital’s radio station and then a social worker
(specialising in families and teenage issues) active in NALGO but he then
switched to the radio industry, working as a football reporter and a breakfast DJ.
He has worked his way through the ranks of Britain's largest commercial radio
groups including Capital FM. A rock fanatic, he owns a vintage Rockola jukebox
and still DJs on his own Cortina Nights programme.
Berkan Ozturk MP,
Berkan was elected HDP MP for city of Agri (the mount
Ararat) area. He was also detained recently and has case pending against him
in the Turkish government’s clamp down on all opposition. He graduated from
SOAS London, returned to Kurdistan and worked as a lawyer and head of Human
Rights Association in Agri until he was elected MP. He speaks Kurdish, Turkish
and English.
Edda Nicolson,
is currently completing her first degree in history at
Wolverhampton University and has been appointed PhD student working on the
latest history of the GFTU. Edda was born in Iceland and has been active in
UNISON and NUS.
Dr Alice Prochaska,
was elected Principal of Somerville in the summer of 2009,
and took up the position in September 2010. She wrote the first history of the
GFTU and has recently been elected to service on the GFTU Educational Trust
Board of Trustees.
Alice received both her BA and D.Phil. in Modern History from the University of
Oxford, where she studied at Somerville College. She started her career as a
museum curator and subsequently as an archivist at the Public Record Office