Trustees
Deafness Research UK (The Hearing Research Trust) is governed by a Board of Trustees (the Management Committee) which meets quarterly.
Trustees (Members of the Trust) are also the Directors of the charitable company. Trustees are appointed by the Board and serve for three years after which period they may put themselves up for re-election at the Annual General Meeting as prescribed in the Articles of Association. Officers are appointed by the Board and elected annually. The Articles provide for a minimum of 6 to a maximum of 30 trustees. At its quarterly meetings, the Board agrees the broad strategy and activities of the charity, considering grant making, information, communications and fundraising activities, investment and reserves policies and risk management.
The Board undertakes a regular skills audit to ensure that the Board has the necessary range of experience and expertise. Currently the Board provides the charity with expertise in hearing research, knowledge of the deaf community and other deafness charities, personal experience and understanding of deafness, knowledge of the media and business, legal and financial experience and expertise. New trustees are identified through appropriate networks such as the scientific and medical communities.
Current trustees
- Jane Ashley (Vice Chairman)
- Professor Jonathan Ashmore
- Dr Carol Cole
- Robin Anthony Evans
- Richard Farrell
- John Graham FRCS
- Mike Granatt CB
- Professor Mark Haggard CBE (Chairman)
- Anthony Markson
- Professor David Moore
- Dr Ivan Tucker OBE
- Juliet Waller (Secretary)
Jane Ashley (Vice Chairman)
Jane is the daughter of the late Pauline Ashley, who founded the charity. She has been employed by the BBC for more than 20 years. She has worked as a producer on a range of radio and television news programmes, and currently produces documentaries for Radio 4.
She became a trustee in April 2005.
Professor Jonathan Ashmore
Jonathan is a Bernard Katz Professor of Biophysics at the University College London. He gained a PhD in Theoretical Physics from The Imperial College London in 1971 and an MSc in Physiology from University College London in 1974. From 1983 to 1988 he held the post of Lecturer in Physiology at the University of Bristol and between 1988 and 1993 he read Physiology at the University of Bristol. He was made Professor of Biophysics in 1993.
He has been a trustee of the charity since January 2002 (re-elected 2005).
Dr Carol Cole
Dr Carol Cole is a Consultant Psychologist who has run her own practice in Organisation and Management Development for over twenty years. Originally trained in the NHS, she coaches, lectures and consults on organisation design, strategy, change management and leadership. She has worked in the UK, Europe, North America and the Middle East with clients from both the private and public sectors, and has been a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University and The Kings Fund.
Carol has written or co-authored several publications in her field, is a Non-executive Director of Hounslow and Richmond Community Health, a Senior Associate of the National School of Government and Vice-Chair of the Association of Business Psychologists.
Robin Anthony Evans
Robin is currently self employed and contracted to the South Hampshire Enterprise Agency offering both counselling to individuals wishing to start micro businesses and general advice to existing “SMEs” with specific business challenges. He spent almost 20 years working for Lloyds TSB, starting as Branch Manager in the yearly 80s and ending as Regional Director in 2001. Robin is Treasurer of the Naval Club, Secretary of the Portsmouth and Southsea Rotary Club and member of the Old Thorns Golf and Country Club.
Robin has been a trustee of the charity since April 2007
Richard Farrell
Richard retired as a Director of an investment management company in 1999, but retains a close interest in financial matters as a trustee of two pension funds. He is a member of both Oxfordshire County Council and the Vale of the White Horse District Council where he is Chairman of the Development Control Committee. He has personal experience of hearing impairment.
Richard has been a trustee of the charity since 1986 and was last re-elected in 2004.
John Graham FRCS
John Graham is a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital (RNTNEH) in London. His special interests are: children's ENT problems, including glue ear, otology (ear surgery), hearing problems in adults and children and cochlear implants for children and adults. He is currently Director of the Cochlear Implant Programme at the RNTNEH, President of the European Society of Paediatric Otolaryngology and President of the section of Otology at the Royal Society of Medicine in London.
He also works as a general ENT surgeon, with an interest in voice problems, and at the voice clinic at the RNTNEH. He has considerable experience in Botulinum toxin injection into the vocal cords. He deals with nasal allergy and sinus infections in adults and children and regularly performs endoscopic sinus surgery, as well as treating standard ENT problems such as tonsillitis.
John has been a trustee of the charity since January 2007
Mike Granatt CB
Mike’s distinguished career in public relations includes several years as Director of Public Affairs at New Scotland Yard and as Director of Communication at the Department of the Environment and the Home Office. He spent five years in the Cabinet Office as Director General of the UK Government Information and Communication Service. He is currently a partner in Luther Pendragon specializing in consultancy, facilitation and training for communication strategy, crisis management, risk communication and media handling. His current clients include the BBC Trust, BBC News, the Government of Singapore and the European Commission.
Mike has been a trustee of the charity since January 2007.
« topProfessor Mark Haggard CBE (Chairman)
Mark was Director of the Medical Research Council’s Institute of Hearing Research at the University of Nottingham for 25 years, relinquishing the post in 2001 to pursue and complete his own research work in Cambridge, where he also teaches on advanced topics in scientific method and data analysis.
He gained an MA in Psychology from Edinburgh University in 1963 and a PhD in Experimental Psychology from Cambridge University in 1967. From 1966 to 1967 he was Visiting Fellow at Haskins Laboratories, New York. Between 1967 and 1971 he held the posts of University Teaching Officer and Fellow of Corpus Christi College Cambridge. He was made Professor of Psychology and Head of Department at Queen’s University, Belfast in 1971, a position he held until becoming Founder Director of the Institute of Hearing Research in 1977.
Mark has published extensively on various aspects of the psychology of hearing, speech production and perception, and the imaging of brain function. His work in recent years has mostly been on causes and consequences of, and treatments for, otitis media with effusion (glue ear), the most common cause both of hearing impairments and surgical operations in childhood. He was a trustee of Deafness Research UK from 1986 and, for several years, its Chief Scientific Adviser.
Peter Lord
Peter is a retired Lloyds’ Insurance Broker. He has suffered a degree of deafness since childhood. His other charity involvement is as a Trustee of the Fourth Feathers Youth Club for disadvantaged young people in Marylebone and a member of the Friends of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
Peter has been a trustee of the charity since 1986 and was last re-elected in 2006.
-->Anthony Markson
Anthony Markson became a trustee in January 2008 and was a trustee of ATR from 2002. Member of the Executive Council of the Nottingham Hebrew Congregation for over thirty years and was for four years Treasurer and Deputy President.
Director of numerous companies including Mansfield Knitwear, Coats Viyella plc and Jaeger group of companies. In 1990 became Managing Director The Scarce Skills Service Ltd.
Past Fellow of the Institute of Business Counsellors; past Fellow of the Textile Institute. Five years as a part-time Business Counsellor for the DTI’s Enterprise Initiative in the mid-1990’s; four years as a mentor for the Prince’s Youth Business Trust up to 2003; three years as a school Governor to 2006.
Active tennis player and hill walker and ex-marathon runner; social bridge player and a compulsive reader - fact and fiction.
Professor David Moore
Dave is the director of the MRC Institute of Hearing Research. He took up this position in 2002 after working for more than 20 years at Oxford University. He obtained a BSc in Physiology in 1974 and a PhD in Psychology in 1978 from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of MindWeavers ltd, a spin-out company of the University of Oxford making training products based on leading edge neuroscience.
He has been a trustee of the charity since January 2004.
Dr Ivan Tucker OBE
Dr Tucker became a trustee in April 2009. Chief Executive, Mary Hare Charity which includes two special schools for hearing impaired children since 2004. 1994 to present day Director and Honorary Education Adviser Commonwealth Society for the Deaf (For the Commonwealth Society for the Deaf and the British Council, have acted as Consultant/Lecturer in India, Mauritius, Brazil, Ethiopia and Thailand. 2002 – 2004 Chairman of the National Association of Independent and Non- Maintained Special Schools (NASS).
Author of three books: The Hearing Impaired Child and the Family (1981), Educational Audiology (1984), The Hearing Impaired Child and School (1989) and numerous papers such as “The uses and abuses of radio hearing aid systems.” British society of Audiology – Hearing Aid Audiology Group 10th Oct. 1987
Juliet Waller (Secretary)
Juliet, who has Ménière’s disease, trained as a barrister in 1975 (Gray’s Inn). She lectured in law at the University of Westminster and at the European Business School, London for 15 years. Qualified as a solicitor in 1995, she is now a partner in Blandfords Solicitors.
Juliet has been a trustee of the charity since 1996 and was last re-elected in 2005.
