Ellen specialises in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Ellen has worked to promote EDI in the HE and FE sector since 2004 both nationally and internationally. Most recently, Ellen has been an advisor to the Disabled Student’s Commission and undertook a review of UKRI’s terms and conditions of grant from an EDI perspective. She was an observer and member of the REF 2014 and 2021 Equality and Diversity Advisory Group and Panel and has developed training materials for the HE sector for REF 2014, REF 2021 and REF 2028 designed to support HEIs embed the equality provisions. Ellen was also a member of UUK’s Taskforce on Staff Student Relationships, a member of Genovate’s international advisory group (Horizon 2020 project) and has been involved in several working groups to promote understanding of gender pay issues in the HE sector. She was also responsible for the Gender Equality Charter Mark trial that led to the expansion of Athena Swan to all academic subjects and has worked to support the development of Athena Swan.