Staff Profile

Name:

Abby Reeds (formerly Abby French)

Job Title:

SAgE Learning Partnerships Manager

Background:

Part of the SAgE Faculty's Business, Innovation and Skills team, Abby leads the Learning Partnerships Team, developing and implementing initiatives to connect our Newcastle University students with industry, business and charitable organisations in order to enrich their educational experience. Abby is passionate about enabling students to have as wide and varied engagement with industry as possible, regardless of their personal backgrounds, thereby equipping them to be the sought-after science, engineering and agriculture graduates of the future. In this she is supporting the University's Education Strategy.  

Abby joined SAgE faculty in October 2019 initially looking after activity in Engineering and Natural & Environmental Sciences. She has both industry and academic experience having been an undergrad, postgrad, research and more recently a mature student and spent over 20 years as a geophysicist in the international energy sector. In this she worked closely with other scientists, various engineering disciplines, economists and legal teams and spent a lot of time in Africa, the Middle East and beyond. 

Being a native of Newcastle, Abby is also excited about the future of this region and works to understand the skills challenges that industry is facing and which the university can contribute to meeting. 

Qualifications: 

MA (Cantab); Diploma Petroleum Geochemistry (NU); PGCE (NU)

What Abby can help you with:

Embedding student-employer interaction in taught programmes (UG & PGT) eg guest lectures, site visits, case studies, challenge modules, work experience etc. Extra-curricular networking and mentoring events, data science boot-camps, projects, employability skills and networks. Also cross-disciplinary networking and industrial insight.

How to contact:

Abby.Reeds@ncl.ac.uk;  sage.employability@ncl.ac.uk;

SAgE Faculty Office, 2nd Floor, Devonshire Building NE1 7RU