Speaker Group: Theatre 2025

Dr Preethi Premkumar

Preethi is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at London South Bank University. Her research focuses on family relationships. The Theory of Expressed Emotion guides how she studies family relationships. Preethi studies how people process criticism and praise and how sensitivity to criticism and praise relates to schizotypy. Schizotypy is a personality trait that suggest vulnerability

Dominic Rees-Roberts

Dominic is the co-founder of Borderpoint Films. He is a multimedia entrepreneur and experienced television producer and director specialising in science factual programmes. He has a BSc in Biochemistry, a PhD in parasitology and an MSc in Science Media Production gained at Imperial College London. He has worked at leading production companies producing programmes for

Irene Paik-Semenov

Irene has over 20 years of experience in the Property Assets Management industry with the last 9 years in various NHS environments managing large multi-site property portfolios with complex Landlord and Tenant relations to challenging capital investment projects.

Barry McCollum

Barry is a recognised leading expert in analytical modelling, resource planning and validation of performance drivers in the University sector. He co-founded EventMAP Limited in 2002 through the commercialisation of research from two leading research groups from Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Nottingham. Barry has led on a wide range of UK, European

Wes Baker

Wes is director of strategic analytics, economics and population health management at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. Wes is also co-lead for Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (ARC NWC) for the Improving Population Health theme. Wes has twenty years’ experience in healthcare, having initially commenced his career as a biomedical scientist but then changed

Dean Draper

Apprentice-trained background in Joinery and has spent entire career in this field working as a bench hand and site installer before moving into Senior Management as Project Manager (working UK and Europe-wide), Joinery Works Manager and General Manager for various companies before now working as Joinery Operations Manager for BDS Joinery Leeds Ltd. I enjoy