A heartfelt thank you and best wishes to a great leader who has helped guide and build, not only our BPP Students' Association, but also BPP University itself into the brilliant place it is now.
A heartfelt thank you and best wishes to a great leader who has helped guide and build, not only our BPP Student’s Association but also BPP University itself into the brilliant place it is now.
We wish you, Professor Amanda Blackmore, our Captain, the very best of luck for the future.
President James Brown and Anwar Azari on behalf of BPP Students’ Association.
It has been a privilege to work with Professor Blackmore over the last twelve years. She has been a wonderful friend to our Students' Association and a great champion of improving the student experience. We will miss her wit, insight and wisdom and wish her well as she moves on to heading her own Institution.
Professor Martyn Jones
Chairman BPP University Students Association & BPP University Deputy Chancellor.
A message from our Vice Chancellor, Professor Tim Stewart.
I am sorry to announce that after nearly 20 years of dedicated and invaluable service to BPP, Professor Amanda Blackmore will be leaving us in May.
Amanda has accepted the role of Chief Executive of GSM (formerly the Greenwich School of Management), an exciting and demanding role in which Amanda will thrive.
Amanda joined BPP Law School in October 1997 as a Business Law and Practice tutor on the LPC following a successful career as a corporate tax and acquisitions lawyer. In her first week her module leader confided he was about to resign and recommended her as his successor. Her progression through the ranks of the LPC was quicker than the Olympic athletes with whom she had shared a house and by 2002 she was the Director of Programmes for the LPC nationally, her and her team achieved an Excellent rating from the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority and began the assault on the competition. By 2002 she was on the Board of BPP College and by 2008 Deputy Principal (later Deputy Vice-Chancellor). Amanda played a seminal role in helping BPP gain degree awarding powers in 2007, University College title in 2010 and University title in 2013.
Amanda has too many achievements to list here but I will mention one or two of which she can be rightly proud. Amanda was the initiator of the Learning and Teaching Committee, which she started on the LPC and rolled out across the University in 2006, which made a major contribution to gaining DAP. She played a major part, with Peter Crisp and the rest of the team, in making the Law School one of the most successful in the country and introduced the first accelerated LPC for the City consortium. As founding Dean, she has led the School of Foundation & English Language Studies to facilitate widening participation and support our international students, as well as significantly aiding the recruitment into the other Schools of the University; she supported the introduction of McTimoney College into the University and with Christina Cunliffe launched the School of Health with the new development of psychology and nursing programmes.
Closest to Amanda’s heart has been leading BPP’s WILPower initiative, championing the role of women in BPP, the professions and society, challenging misogynistic practices and attitudes and encouraging a new generation of female leaders.
Amanda is a sagacious, principled, multi-faceted, talented and very human leader who will be sorely missed not only by her devoted team but by BPP as a whole.
You will be relieved to know that Amanda’s new role will not affect her advisory position at Hotel Chocolat, where she will continue as Grande Connoisseur!
Please join me in wishing Amanda every success in her new role and thanking her for all she has done for BPP.
Professor Tim Stewart
Vice Chancellor
BPP University