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Maths Mission

Maths Mission is a series of pilots aiming to find the most effective ways to improve problem-solving and maths skills
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Amy Solder

Amy Solder

Project Lead, Education

Amy works in the Education team. She helps to design and deliver programmes that test new ways to realise young people's potential to innovate and help them develop the skills and attributes needed for an innovation-driven society. She is particularly interested in how innovation can tackle some of the big questions facing the UK's education system, and has spent the last 10 years developing education programmes which aim to develop the creativity and innovation potential of young people.

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Jed Cinnamon

Jed Cinnamon

Programme Manager, Education

Jed is a Programme Manager in the Education team at Nesta.

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Toby Baker

Toby Baker

Assistant Programme Manager, Education

Toby is an Assistant Programme Manager within the Innovation Lab's Education Team. He's particularly interested in education to work transition and enhancing the role of universities. Before this, Toby worked within Nesta's Government Innovation Team, where his work focused on digital social innovation and how technology can be used to enable people to collaborate to address social challenges more effectively.  He co-authored the recent 'What Next for Digital Social Innovation?' report which identified barriers and enablers of the growth of digital social innovation across Europe.

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Future skills

When today’s schoolchildren enter the workplace, many will be faced with roles that do not exist today. We want to equip these children with skills that are more resilient in the changing job market
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Joysy John

Joysy John

Director of Education

Joysy is the Director of Education in the Innovation Lab, bringing together Nesta's work in education across innovation programmes, research and investment.

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Harry Armstrong

Harry Armstrong

Head of Technology Futures

Harry currently leads Nesta’s futures work, exploring the potential impacts of emerging technology and innovations, like Artificial Intelligence, on industry, society and the economy with a goal to supporting responsible innovation in a wide range of sectors. His research has covered everything from machine learning, cybersecurity and the internet of things to nanosatellites and the emergence of local energy systems. He leads Nesta’s thinking on the ethical and responsible development of AI and machine learning tools, helping to develop and shape policy in and outside of government. He organises the Hot topics event series exploring these emerging technologies and is part of the team organising FutureFest, Nesta's flagship festival of immersive experiences, compelling performances and radical speakers about the future.

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Cath Sleeman

Cath Sleeman

Quantitative Research Fellow, Creative Economy & Data Analytics

Cath is the Quantitative Research Fellow at Nesta, working in the Policy and Research team. She is interested in scraping, analysing and visualising complex data.

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Hasan Bakhshi

Hasan Bakhshi

Executive Director, Creative Economy and Data Analytics

Hasan oversees Nesta's creative economy policy, research and practical work.

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Jed Cinnamon

Jed Cinnamon

Programme Manager, Education

Jed is a Programme Manager in the Education team at Nesta.

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Toby Baker

Toby Baker

Assistant Programme Manager, Education

Toby is an Assistant Programme Manager within the Innovation Lab's Education Team. He's particularly interested in education to work transition and enhancing the role of universities. Before this, Toby worked within Nesta's Government Innovation Team, where his work focused on digital social innovation and how technology can be used to enable people to collaborate to address social challenges more effectively.  He co-authored the recent 'What Next for Digital Social Innovation?' report which identified barriers and enablers of the growth of digital social innovation across Europe.

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Nancy Wilkinson

Nancy Wilkinson

Programme Manager, Education

Nancy works across a range of programmes in the Education team to help prepare young people with the skills needed for the future.

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Emma Sutherland

Emma Sutherland

Assistant Programme Manager

Emma works in the Education team within the Innovation Programmes Unit.

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