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Professor Roy Sandbach

National Innovation Centre for Ageing, Former Director

Professor Roy Sandbach has many leading connections in the North East. Apart from being a visiting Professor at Northumbria University, he supports the Centre for Life where he is a trustee and also, the research commercialisation programme across 4 NE Universities, Northern Accelerator, where he is Chair.

Professor Sandbach works in partnership with Tees & Wear Reform Prisons where he is Chair, on the Data and Insights Board.

Sandbach was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2017, for his incredible dedication and services to science, innovation and skills.


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UUK Future Jobs event at Northumbria University
Professor Greta Defeyter OBE and Andrew Forsey OBE pictured outside 10 Downing Street.
Illustration of the ecosystem in Antarctica around 90 million years ago. Research shows that wildfires regularly occurred near the South Pole at that time. Credit:  James McKay (University of Leeds).
Dr Lea Ferellec, a Research Fellow based in Northumbria's School of Engineering, Physics and Mathematics
Professor Elliott Johnson and Professor Nicola Wake
Radar measurements of coastal ice all around Antarctica will be taken from the air in an effort to get more accurate calculations and reduce uncertainty about future global sea levels. Photo by Dr Kenichi Matsuoka
Pictured left to right is Dr Antonio Portas, Jonathan Sanderson, Professor Carol Davenport and Mel Horan from NUSTEM at Northumbria University.
Young learners are pictured at Northumbria University’s London Campus taking part in the Digital and Cyber Essentials course – the first in an annual programme offered through a new initiative with the Mayor's Fund for London (MFL).

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