Paul Bradstock OBE, DL
OISSP Chairman (TRUSTEE)

Paul A Bradstock OBE, DL
                                                                                                                                                    
Paul Bradstock is a trustee of The Oxford Trust where he also served as Chief Executive from its foundation in 1985 until 2003.  Under his management the Trust developed programmes to encourage innovation, enterprise and scientific literacy and set up the Oxford Centre for Innovation as an exemplar of business incubation in the UK and the hub of a network for innovation and enterprise.

Paul was a founding director of Oxford Innovation Ltd, the UK market leader in the operation of innovation centres and is currently the Chairman of Portsmouth Technopole and a board member of the Northern Ireland Science Park.  He initiated the Oxfordshire Investment Opportunity Network now recognised as one of Europe’s premier business angel networks.

After reading Physics at Keble College, Oxford, Paul’s early career was in small high growth, high technology businesses.  His current advisory and charitable work includes membership of the Oxfordshire Independent and State Schools Partnership, the Oxfordshire Economic Observatory and the Oxfordshire Economic Partnership. Paul Bradstock was awarded an OBE in the 2000 New Year Honours List in recognition of his services to innovation and economic development in Oxfordshire and appointed a Deputy Lieutenant in the County of Oxfordshire in 2001.

Rod Walker
OISSP Honorary Treasurer (TRUSTEE)

Rod Walker was Educated at Huddersfield, New College followed by University College, Oxford.
Rod has taught in the following schools: 1970-76:  Oxford School, 1976-80:  Peers School, Oxford, 1981-85:  Wood Green School, Witney, 1985-95:  Larkmead School, Abingdon (Headteacher), 1995 to 2007:  The Henry Box School, Witney (Headteacher). In 2007, Rod was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Oxfordshire.
Rod was seconded in 1988/89 (full-time) and 1989/90 (part-time) to Oxfordshire LEA to develop the county’s LMS scheme. He strongly supports delegating powers and responsibilities to schools (and to the operational level within schools) wherever possible and schools developing their own support networks, with other secondary schools and with local primary and special schools.
He has been committed to the OISSP since its inception in 1997.  “The challenges facing all secondary schools are best addressed by sharing expertise, while recognising the autonomy of individual institutions in both sectors.

Chris Bryan
Retired Headteacher, St Birinus School (TRUSTEE)

Richard Howard  (TRUSTEE)
Chair of the  National Education Trust (NET)

Until his retirement, Richard Howard was the Principal Advisor for Schools and Head of the School Development Service for Oxfordshire County Council. Prior to this, he was a teacher for 22 years, for 15 of which he was a primary head teacher. Richard has written and lectured widely, particularly on the themes of school improvement; partnership between schools; continuity in learning and teaching between the primary and the secondary phases; creative, outdoor and extended learning activities; and developing school communities. Apart from working for 38 years in Oxfordshire, he has been a British Council Specialist Adviser in The Gambia and in southern India. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Oxford Brookes University in 2003. He is presently Chair of the National Education Trust (NET) and a Trustee of the National Children’s University. Richard and his wife, Linda, have three children and two grandchildren.

Michael O'Regan OBE, DL  (TRUSTEE)

Michael O’Regan now splits his time between commercial and educational activities. He was a co-founder of RM (supplier of IT and services to education) and worked there full-time until 1992 and was then a non-executive director until 2004. He is now mostly involved with small companies, including the Oxford Technology VCTs of which he is a director and co-founder. As part of his educational work, he set up, funded and chairs Hamilton Trust which works with primary teachers, in particular through its web-site support of the planning and teaching of English and maths. He also initiated the Schools Energy Efficiency Project (SEEP), in which OISSP worked with the Environmental Information Exchange (EiE) of Oxford
Brookes University and 20 Oxfordshire secondary schools in a project to reduce the schools' use of energy.

Andrew Trotman (TRUSTEE)
Warden, St Edward’s School

Hilary Lowe (Trustee) OISSP Company Secretary (TRUSTEE)
Assistant Dean, Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University

Hilary Lowe has responsibility for planning, resource and operational matters in the Institute. She also line manages the two Divisions of Teacher Education and Professional Development and Learning Sciences and Human Development. Her interests include teachers’ leadership roles, the professional development of teachers and gifted and talented education.

Sami Cohen 
Headteacher, d’Overbroeck’s College

Sami Cohen is the Principal of d'Overbroeck's College in Oxford.
d'Overbroeck's is an independent school with an intake (at age 11, 13 and 16) that comes from both the state and the independent sectors. Sami is a strong supporter of the principle of constructive collaboration between the state and independent schools and, in particular, of OISSP's initiatives over the years to bring students and staff from both sectors together in interesting and mutually enriching projects.

Bridget Holligan
Science Oxford
Head of Learning

David Wilson (TRUSTEE)

Head Teacher of Faringdon Community College an 11-18 co-educational secondary comprehensive school in Oxfordshire.

Tom Kempton (OISSP Project Director)
Retired Head of Science, Didcot Girls School

Tom Kempton was appointed Project Director for the Securing our Future project in August 2007. He has taught science in Oxfordshire schools for over 35 years at Cheney School, Wood Green School and most recently as Head of Science at Didcot Girls’ School.

Tom was been involved in the ASE projects Science in Society, SATIS (Science and Technology in Society), and Science Across the World, writing units and developing the projects. He was appointed Project Director of the SATIS Atlas, an environmental atlas for science teachers. He has had two secondments working with Oxfordshire schools to develop science teaching. The first involved the development of a local environmental and science issues handbook. The second involved promoting moral and spiritual issues through science teaching.

Tom’s interest in the science and religion interface led him to being on the steering committee and a writer for the CHARIS project and also the Science and Religion in Schools Project.

Pauline Rutter
OISSP Project Administrator

OISSP Projects Administrator since March 2008 and has lead the development of OISSP’s prototype online initiative ‘Sciencebook’ since 2009. Pauline gained a Masters in International Management in Toulouse, France (2007). Her previous positions as manager of New Media Training at Lighthouse Arts and Media, Co-founder of The Greenhouse Housing Co-operative and classroom teacher, have provided opportunities for project development work across the corporate, charitable, co-operative and education sectors. Pauline’s research activity includes partnership working, change management, sustainability, innovation and corporate social responsibility.