Role
With 25 years’ expertise in project and programme management, Fiona is a Nottingham Trent alumna and urban regeneration specialist who now teaches undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts in the Property Management and Development department. She is Course Leader of the BSc Property Development and Planning course and delivers industry-focused teaching to prepare students for professional accreditation.
Career overview
A senior strategic problem solver and troubleshooter, Fiona has a passion for improving systems and processes to create better outcomes for people.
At Nottingham Regeneration Ltd, Fiona produced retail strategies, business initiatives and sustainable redevelopment plans, while serving as a hands-on planning consultee.
As Programme Manager for the D2N2 LEP’s £26 million Growing Places fund, she reviewed and green-lit scores of business cases, reported to Board and central government on risk and finance, and went on to Chair the LEP Delivery Group vetting European funding applications for projects across the East Midlands.
Fiona worked on Nottingham’s Eastside, Southside and Waterside Regeneration Zones and as a Project Management Director, Fiona has overseen heritage, residential, leisure, health, commercial, retail, cultural, blue-light and infrastructure projects.
She chaired the Chartered Institute of Building’s East Midlands committee for four years, served as Vice-Chair of the CIOB’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion committee, sat on the Construction Industry Council’s regional board and advised on NTU’s Industry Advisory Board. For 15 years she combined project expertise with academic rigour to teach and mentor NTU apprentices and undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Outside work, Fiona channels her curiosity into scuba diving, world travel, reading, and artistic pursuits.