The Trustees
The voluntary Trustees bring a wealth of expertise and experience to the Trust through his/her own unique perspective and expertise. They are:
Professor Fabian Monds CBE, BSc., PhD
Fabian Monds was Provost of Magee College and Pro Vice Chancellor for Planning in the University of Ulster 1995 - 2000. He is now Emeritus Professor of Information Systems. He has worked at Purdue University, Indiana and at the Queens University of Belfast. He has an extensive record of academic achievement in the fields of telecommunications, signal processing and entrepreneurial studies having made significant contributions to professional publications. In August 1999 he was appointed BBC National Governor for Northern Ireland. He was Chairman of the Northern Ireland Information Age Initiative, and Chairman of the Board of Invest Northern Ireland. He is a Trustee of the National Teaching Awards.
Her Grace the Duchess of Abercorn
The Duchess of Abercorn has brought a wealth of spiritual insight and counseling experience to a range of organisations and initiatives in both Ireland and the UK for many years. As a trained counsellor in Depth (or Jungian) psychology she was involved in science and religion at St Georges House in Windsor, and worked as a Samaritan for a number of years in the 1970s. The Duchess established the Pushkin Prize for primary school children, which encourages literary creativity among Irish and Russian children through curriculum based subjects. The results are published in book form and disseminated widely. As founder of the Sacred Literature Trust in London she has helped bring together sacred documents from all faiths in order to promote them more widely by having them presented in English.
Professor Roy McClelland MD, PhD, FRC Psych
Roy McClelland is Professor of Mental Health with Queens University Belfast and is currently a Consultant Psychiatrist with the Belfast City Hospital Trust and Chair of the Examination Board for the Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Therapy, Queens University. His other roles in the field of psychiatry include the Deputy Chairman of the steering committee reviewing mental health policy and legislation for Northern Ireland and the Chairman of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Informatics Committee and Confidentiality Advisory Group. He is a member of the Academy of Royal Colleges Information Group.
He is also the Chairman of the NI Advisory Group on Health and Social Care Informatics Training and his current research includes epidemiological studies of mental health and suicide, and the development of European guidelines on confidentiality for healthcare professionals. Professor McClelland was also the Chairman of the Healing through Remembering (www.healingthroughremembering.org) Project which sought to identify and to document possible mechanisms and realisable options for how remembering should occur so that healing can take place for all people for all people affected by the conflict in and about Northern Ireland.
Professor Paul Seawright
Paul Seawright was Professor of Photography at the University and Dean of Newport School of Art Media until 2006. He was awarded a personal Chair in 2001. In 2007 he was appointed Professor of Photography at the University of Ulster.
Born in Belfast in 1965, Paul has been exhibiting photographic works since 1987. He is a photographer who has frawn heavily on his Northern Irish background to produce searching photographic investigations of aspects of its fraught political terrain, as in his "Orange Order" and "Police Force" series from the early 1990s. His solo exhibitions include shows at the Photographers Gallery, London, the Imperial War Museum, London, Milton Keynes Gallery and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
Mr. David McKittrick
David McKittrick has been the Ireland correspondent of the Independent Newspaper since 1986, and has reported from Belfast since the early 1970s. His awards include the Orwell prize and the Ewart-Biggs memorial prize for the promotion of peace and understanding in Ireland. He is one of the authors of the works "Lost Lives" which chronicled every death of the troubles. |
