Team member
Andy Samways
Director of Research School and Teaching School, Unity Schools Partnership, and OLP Board Member
Andy is Director of Research School and Teaching School at Unity Schools Partnership.
He is a member of the Royal Society Education Committee and has a particular interest in utilising evidence around effective implementation at a variety of scales within school improvement.
Andy has extensive experience of school and system leadership gained from senior leadership in secondary schools over the past 20 years and most recently through his work leading the Unity Research School and as Teaching School Council EENEL Local Lead for Suffolk. These roles increasingly draw on effective collaboration and partnership working within evidence-based school improvement activity.
Our Team
Sally Bishop
Director of the West Hertfordshire Teaching Schools Partnership and Chair of the OLP Board
Sally Bishop is Director of the West Hertfordshire Teaching Schools Partnership, part of the Aspire ...
Nick Parry
Director of Teaching, Learning & Leadership, The Dean Trust at Ashton on Mersey School, and OLP Board Member
Nick has taught for 25 years and over the last 10 years, he has predominantly focused on staff train...
Dr. Lynn Sampson-Chappell
Head of Professional Partnership Development, Liverpool Hope University, and OLP Board Member
Lynn is Head of Partnership for Professional Programmes at Liverpool Hope University, working in col...
Simon Little
Managing Director, and OLP Board Member
As Managing Director of Best Practice Network, Simon oversees a network of 150+ partners and 500+ fa...
Vanessa Macdonald
Leadership NPQ Lead Facilitator
Vanessa is an experienced headteacher, Ofsted inspector, facilitator, coach and subject matter exper...
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Simon Lockwood
Programme Lead, NPQEL
Simon has worked in Education for 40 years as a teacher, leader and local authority school improveme...
Phillip Naylor
Lead Online Learning Specialist
Phil has worked with the widest range of schools and groups of schools as a senior leader responsibl...
Neil Gillard
Director of Finance and Operations
Neil is a qualified accountant with over 25 years’ experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams...
Joanna Hawkins
Strategic Projects and Operations Manager
Joanna has worked in education for over 10 years. Having worked across a variety of programme specia...
Chris Ludlow
Head of Partnerships
Chris is responsible for the growth of our school/ setting partnerships, helping extend delivery of ...