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Humanities and Social Sciences HR Team

The H&SS Team in the Human Resources Department provides support to staff in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences:

Human Resources Lead Team
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Team
Organisational and Professional Development Team
HR Strategic Transformation Team
Employee Relations Team
Systems and Information Team
Rewards and Benefits Team
HR Recruitment Team
HR Operations Team
Payroll and Pensions Team

HR Lead Team:

Name Role Telephone extension (13)
Louise Lester 

Director of HR 

6591
Sophie Harris

Deputy Director of HR

3736
Sonia Sookhan Faculty Strategic HR Partner – Humanities and Social Sciences 5120

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Team:

Name Role Telephone extension (13)
Alex Prestage Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and Executive Officer to VP PCI 5585
Eleanor McDavis Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Manager 7426
Liz Grand Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Manager 7347
Afua Acheampong Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Manager 7346
Michael Jannetta People, Culture & Inclusion Engagement Manager 8713
Carol Malcolm Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Co-ordinator  5519
Denis Lelin Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Officer - HSS 759
Anna Chan Interim Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Co-ordinator  
Bhagirathi Shah Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Data Analyst 2681

Organisational and Professional Development Team:

Name Role Telephone extension (13)
Petra Dodd Head of Organisational and Professional Development Team 2807
David Wallace Organisational and Professional Development Adviser - HSS  
Bob Artino Staff Apprenticeship Manager  
Jina Rahimi Staff Apprenticeship Support  
Joan Low Organisational and Professional Development Administrator  
Iris Godding Organisational and Professional Development Administrator  

HR Strategic Transformation Team:

Name Role Telephone extension (13)
Sheila Collins HR Strategic Transformation Partner 3155 
Shivam Amin HR Transformation Project Co-ordinator 7957

Employee Relations Team:

Name Role Telephone extension (13)
Kev Moon Head of HR Operations and Recruitment 2575
Anahita Daruwala Employee Relations Manager - HSS 8279
Rebecca Allen Employee Relations Adviser - HSS 8683

Systems and Information Team:

Name Role Telephone extension (13)
Simon Gwynne HR Management Information and Analytics Manager 6846 
James Atkinson HR Management Information and Reporting Analyst 3172
Bhagirathi Shah Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Analyst 2681

Rewards and Benefits Team

Name Role Telephone extension (13)
Tim Hubbard Acting Head of Reward and Benefits  3171
Sukhdev Walia Interim Reward and Benefits Manager  
Stephen Duncan Reward and Benefits Analyst   
Katia Bejar-Aylas Rewards and Benefits Administrator 5992

HR Recruitment Team:

Name Role

Claire Foster

Recruitment Manager

Tahmid Choudhury

International Employment Compliance Adviser
Khaleda Shahid

HR Project Administrator

 

Nasema Begum

Joanna Juzaszek

Aruna Dhinakaran

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Recruitment Administrators

Claire Young

HR Recruitment team Leader

HR Operations Team:

Name Role

Asma Husain

Operations Manager

Tahmid Choudhury

International Employment Compliance Adviser

Natasha Laurent

Deputy Operations Manager

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (H&SS) – HR Operations Team

Name of Administrator

 Faculty & Schools

Shamima Begum – 

 

 

H&SS - Geography

H&SS Business & Management

H&SS - Management & Administration

Faheedul Islam

H&SS - Economics and Finance

H&SS - SPIR

H&SS -  Law

H&SS - CCLS

 

 

 

 

Payroll and Pensions Team:

Please Note: when emailing, could we kindly ask you to include your Department, Employee ID and Full Name, in the subject line, to help our team answer queries in a timely manner. 

Name Role Telephone extension (13)
Filiz Abdula Payroll and Pensions Manager 7708
Nemita Mistry Payroll Lead 7713
Zakir Ahmed Pension Lead 7706
Rodger Hook Pension Administrator 3172

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (H&SS) – Payroll Team

Name of Administrator

Department

 Telephone extension (13)
Caroline Langstone

School of History 

School of English and Drama

 5653
Darshan Saffery

H&SS Management and Administration 

School of Law including Law and Commercial Law

 7715
Elaine Whitmee

School of Business and Management 

School of Economics and Finance

 7714
Yoram Masih

School of Language, Linguistics and Film

School of Politics and International Relations

School of Geography

 

 7712
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