Mr Chris Moore

Chris Moore is the Executive Dean at the University of Northampton. He has responsibility as a core member of the University Executive team for Strategic Partnerships and Social Enterprise. As Executive Dean, he also leads the School of Social Sciences, having supported and established, since his tenure, a number of ventures these include the Northampton Institute for Urban Affairs, the Northamptonshire Voluntary Youth Action at the University of Northampton, and the Collaborative Centre for the Built Environment a partnership with Moulton College and the University Centre Milton Keynes.

Chris holds a number of strategic directorships, trustee and board positions in the region including also a Director of the Icon Centre Daventry, NVYA – Youth Volunteering, CAB – Citizen Advice and UTC – University Technology College Daventry.

As Executive Dean, Chris leads the development of the major key strategy for the University of Northampton – Social Enterprise, which has and will define the unique characteristics of both the University and our graduates. As Executive Dean, Chris has been building professional relationships in research and teaching with public and third sector service providers in Policing, Probation, Youth and Community Services, Housing and Social Care. He has a professional and academic background as a social worker, working with Children and Families, including Youth Justice and Management of Young Offenders Institute, as well as an academic social work educator and now a senior manager in H.E. He has a lead role working with Skills for Care in the East Midlands Chairing and developing the ‘Employer Engagement Agenda’ with a focus on the Social Care Sector Skills Council HE engagement strategy group. Chris is undertaking similar work in relation to the development of Police and Prison training and education and their engagement with higher education. He is Deputy Chair of the Northamptonshire Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Board, Chairing and leading Serious Case Reviews in Northamptonshire.

Chris has a passion for promoting equality and diversity and worked at two Universities to develop service user involvement projects in social work and social care education, including successfully researching and evaluating these projects. His latest research project is ‘Exploring the Tacit Experience of Carers in Safeguarding Situations’ and a collaborative project with ADDACTION to create a national toolkit for community based interventions with teenagers at risk from Drug and Alcohol Abuse in Corby. He has worked with the Young Foundation establishing the first Social Entrepreneur in Residence, the first such scheme in a UK Univeirsty. Finally, he has led and pioneered with Northamptonshire Police the development of a pioneering pre-entry Foundation Degree in Policing.

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