Staff Profile

Liz Shutt is Programme Director for Insights North East, a new initiative seeking to produce actionable and accessible insights for policy makers in the region, drawing on the rich evidence base from within Newcastle and Northumbria Universities and from the project's policy partners - North of Tyne Combined Authority, Newcastle City Council, NHS Newcastle and NHS Northumbria Trusts. Insights North East is interdisciplinary and therefore cross-university. It is focussing on three priority challenge areas: Net Zero, Health and Well.

Previously, Liz was Director of Policy for the University of Lincoln and the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership, where she has worked to connect the University with local and national policy development. In that time, she has played a leading role on various projects to help shape and develop regional and university strategy including 21st Century Lab, which focussed on the purpose of university in relation to the challenges of the 21st Century, the Local Industrial Strategy, the Innovation Strategy for the Humber Freeport and the University’s Regional Inequality Commission. Prior to this Liz has also worked for Universities UK, the Department for Work and Pensions, University Alliance and Sheffield Hallam University.