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Nadira Mirza

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Known For: Dean, School of Lifelong Education and Development; Director of Access, Public, and Community Engagement
Country: United Kingdom

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Nadira Mirza is the Dean of the School of Lifelong Education and Development and the Director of Access, Public, and Community Engagement at the University of Bradford. She has lead participation initiatives with local communities and schools, enabling young people who have no family history of higher education to access university courses. She continues to be instrumental in establishing new voluntary sector organizations in Bradford, thus sustaining this infrastructure within the district.

Ms. Mirza is on a number of local, regional, and national committees charged with raising educational achievement and better health for local communities.  She is a Non-Executive Director of the Bradford District Care Trust (NHS) and chairs a number of strategic committees, including the “Born in Bradford” project, an international action research study of childhood diseases over the next ten years. Ms. Mirza was instrumental in developing the university’s first school, the University Academy Keighley under the Government Academy scheme. The University Academy Keighley encourages universities to take leadership of local schools and raise achievement through high level leadership and links with academics. She is now the Chair of the Governing Board.

Ms. Mirza represents the university on a number of strategic advisory committees in England; she is advisor to the Management Development Foundation, an international training consultancy for leadership and project development based in the Netherlands. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and a visiting Fellow of the University of Azad Kashmir.

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