The ASDC board of Trustees is comprised of 8 to 16 professionals who are committed to the mission and values of ASDC, representing leadership both within and beyond our membership. The Board works with the Chief Executive to drive the strategy and vision of ASDC.
Each year Trustee elections are held at The ASDC AGM.
For 2025, this will be held at 12.00pm on Tuesday 9th September at Fountains Church, Bradford.
Trustees serve a three year term and then stand for re-election if they wish. This sets up a rotation of Trustees that gives all ASDC member organisations the opportunity to stand for election to the ASDC Board and to help shape the direction of this national strategic organisation.
Standing for re-election to the ASDC Board of Trustees:
Hassan Joudi, Senior Project Manager, Innova
Sheila Kanani, Freelance Consultant, Her Place for Space
In 2025, we have one new candidate standing for election:
Jill Farrell, CEO Dundee Science Centre
As CEO of Dundee Science Centre, I am delighted to lead a small but mighty team where our mission is to make science accessible.
I am an experienced and values-driven executive leader with a career spanning public, academic, private, and third-sector organisations. I have experience of economic development, shaping international academic partnerships, building a circular economy and delivering strategic national projects.
Throughout my career I have been engaged with the skills and education sector. This ranges from the stratgeic mapping of future Financial Services and Circular Economy skills requirements, developed through complex partnerships; to supporting inward investing companies to identify and recruit roles fro entry to senior management levels.
Manifesto
Harnessing everyone’s STEM skills and capabilities is essential to realising the potential to achieve our collective economic potential at minimal environmental impact.
The network of science centres in the UK is an essential part of the STEM skills infrastructure. Specifically, we have the potential to ignite STEM interest and capabilities (such as collaboration, creativity and critical thinking) through the medium of fun. As science and technology become increasingly pervasive in our lives it is imperative that everyone in society is welcomed on this journey. If elected, I would work with ASDC colleagues to advocate for strong partnership working and a focus on articulating the collective impact of science centres across society.
What I bring
I have a strong track record in:
- strategic leadership earned through a range of executive and non executive roles;
- relationship building and stakeholder engagement with educators, public, private and third sector partners; and
- delivering complex national programmes – including influencing government to support early stage concepts by demonstrating impact across multiple policy areas.