Our Governance
We are governed by an amazingly talented and passionate Board of Trustees. They all bring unique skills, experiences and insights to our leadership and ensure our success. Meet them all below.
Kerry-Jane Packman is the CEO of Learning on Screen. She spearheads our pioneering Box of Broadcasts (BoB) the ultimate on-demand TV and radio streaming service. With extensive experience in leadership, stakeholder engagement, and revenue generation Kerry-Jane leads our organisation, shaping our strategic direction and ensuring sustainability and relevance. She is incredibly passionate about our mission and ensuring that streaming technologies like BoB enhance accessibility, engagement, and innovation in post-16 education. She understands the challenges institutions face in navigating copyright, licensing, and digital infrastructure, and works to position Learning on Screen at the forefront of these discussions. As a champion for the responsible use of audiovisual content in education, Kerry-Jane brings valuable insights at all levels of the organisation.
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John Ellis is Emeritus Professor in Media Arts at Royal Holloway University. He has been chair of Learning on Screen since 2007 and has also been an officer in both academic and TV producers’ organisations including MeCCSA and PACT, the Producers’ Alliance for Cinema and Television. He has been principal investigator on several television history research projects including the EU funded ADAPT project which produced the website How Television Used to Be Made www.adapttvhistory.org.uk . He is an editor in chief of the online peer reviewed journal VIEW www.viewjournal.eu His books include Visible Fictions (1982), Seeing Things (2000), Documentary: Witness and Self-revelation (2011) and the collection Hands On Media History (2020) co-edited with Nick Hall. From 1982 to 1999 he ran the independent TV production company Large Door www.largedoorltd.com producing over 100 programmes for Channel 4 and BBC.
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BAFTA nominated Digital Producer with 25 years of experience working on high profile projects for broadcasters and educators. Carl has a track record of successfully shaping and delivering projects by connecting the dots between content, technology and people, and provides expertise across a wide range of areas, from proposition development, research, content strategy and content production to UX and product management.
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Katy is Library Systems Coordinator at Regent’s University London, where she runs the learning technology, search systems and e-resources the students and staff use. Katy also acts as a subject librarian, working with academics in their classrooms and on resource management. Previous to this Katy worked at the British Library and at the Goldsmiths’ Company Library. She has a passion for spreading education through both reading and on the screen. She has co-hosted podcasts about both film and history.
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Rebecca Feasey is Subject Leader in Media and Critical Studies with Learning & Teaching Portfolio at the Bath School of Art, Film and Media, Bath Spa University. She is a feminist media theorist with a passion for equality, diversity, and inclusion from the classroom to the creative industries and has over two decades of experience in researching depictions of gender. Outside of her research and teaching, Rebecca chairs Bath Spa’s staff equality network and their neurodiversity forum, creating safe spaces for crucially important conversations with the aim of ensuring an inclusive learning, teaching, and working environment. She is also a Women-Space ambassador supporting women in Higher Education.
James McAteer is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at Keele University with extensive experience in media production. He started making short films in the 1980s with Scottish filmmaker Enrico Cocozza, later earning degrees from Westminster and Derby. He co-developed the first British Sign Language video dictionaries and worked as a freelance photographer for organisations like Amnesty International and Fairtrade. His career spans roles in the NHS and the National Institute for Mental Health England (NIMHE) and healthcare communications and mental health advocacy, founding the Media Action Group for Mental Health. Since 2013, he has taught film and photography at Keele, convening the Digital Video module, the Media, Communication and Power module and supporting students in work placements and Masters students’ independent projects. He is the founder and the Academic Lead for the Earth Stories Film Festival, showcasing global young filmmakers, up to the age of 25 years old, expressing their concerns about environmental and climate issues. The festivals has received over 5000 films from 136 countries.
Chris Willmott is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Dept of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Leicester. He is also a Freelance Science Communication specialist. He has particular interests in bioethics, representations of bioscience in broadcast media, antibiotics and careers education. He is also passionate about the use of broadcast media and other audiovisual resources in education as well as wider innovative pedagogy, including the development of innovative teaching activities and “authentic assessment”.
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Jake is Director of Jake Berger Consulting and has over 25 years of experience in digital, media, archives, and cultural heritage, Jake specialises in shaping products, solving complex challenges, and driving successful project delivery. His expertise spans agile product management, data strategy, process reengineering, and organisational design, helping businesses optimise their operations. Originally trained as an Organisational Psychologist, Jake has led major initiatives with international broadcasters, cultural institutions, libraries, and archives. As Executive Product Manager at BBC Technology and Archives, he spearheaded the design and delivery of online products that provide content and data to global audiences. He also served as Business Manager for BBC Production, overseeing a £500M, 3,000-person business, and as Head of Technology & Distribution for thespace.org, leading digital innovation for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
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Jon Shears works as a video producer and manages the in-house producers and photographer as part of the Web and Digital Team at Loughborough University. His career began in the 1980s, running a small production company which specialised in making promotional films for universities and polytechnics. He then worked as a freelancer for a number of years before being invited to join the University of Leicester. Working within a university proved to be a real privilege, with such a rich and varied range of subjects to tackle. In 2019, he took the opportunity to refocus on his passion for video production by joining Loughborough. Having started in the days of video tape and badly-tuned TVs, he’s worked through a revolution in moving image technology where its use in education and research has been transformed.
Dr Katerina Loukopoulou is Senior Academic Developer at Middlesex University London, where her responsibilities include curriculum design and pedagogic research. Katerina is a passionate advocate of multimedia learning and teaching across disciplines as a student-centred academic practice that diversifies the curriculum and its epistemologies. She is a film and media historian by training (PhD, Birkbeck College) and her peer-reviewed publications include a chapter to the first scholarly collection about the history and theory of educational film (Learning with the Lights Off, Oxford University Press, 2012) and more recently an article to a special journal issue on the ‘Educational Dispositif’ (2023).
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