Jacqui has wide experience in senior management, change management, project and programme management, and has expertise in strategic planning and formal project planning to deliver business solutions involving new ideas. Her experience is particularly strong in helping develop effective management within Innovative IT companies. She is uniquely qualified in both IT (MBCS, CITP) and Business (MBA, MCMI).

Jacqui has worked with a wide variety of industries including information technology, utilities, retail, pharmaceuticals, service, government, manufacturing, professional institutes and not-for-profit organisations, with responsibility for budgets from £10k to £9m. She is trained in Prince 2 (The main project management standard in the UK and Europe) and has helped create a strong project management framework in several companies.

Jacqui has distilled the best of this experience into a number of consultancy services to give small and medium sized businesses the opportunity to take advantage of this experience to enhance their success. Many companies have already benefited from her mentoring and support. She uses a wide range of creative thinking techniques has facilitated many seminars and workshops for groups ranging from 6 to 200 people and is familiar with working with a diverse range of different people and situations.

Jacqui is an approved Business Adviser with ibd (initiatives in business development), anIMP3rove Guide, a DTI Innovations Mentor and an approved supplier to Business Link

My journey through some of the most fascinating and interesting years of the rise of the computer. From when computers were large and slow beasts hidden in a special room, through to the ubiquitous internet and social media. I will cover my personal experiences from studying an unrelated degree (in Architecture and Building) and starting as a humble programmer through to becoming a consultant, with stories and anecdotes about what it was really like working in a largely male environment and how I met the challenges.

Author -Jacqui Hogan BSc(Hons), MBA, MBCS, MCMI

Annett, who lives with her partner, a theoretical physicist, and their three-year-old son, became highly interested in the health benefits of commonly occurring food ingredients when – after a PhD in cell and molecular biology – she worked on the effects of a combination of probiotics and prebiotics in colon cancer at the University of Jena in Germany. Probiotics are defined as live microbial food ingredients beneficial to health, mostly lactic acid producing bacteria that can be found in probiotic dairy products. Prebiotics are food ingredients which selectively stimulate the growth of those beneficial bacteria, and are usually non-digestible carbohydrates that occur naturally, e.g. in onions, leek, soybeans, or wheat flour.

After the birth of her son, Annett gave up her career in Germany to move to London with her partner. While at home she continued to follow research about probiotics and prebiotics, preparing four publications on the results of her work in Jena. She also wrote two chapters for a German textbook on the subject, occasionally working as a scientific writer for a company producing probiotic yoghurt.

In her current research project she will study the beneficial health effects of probiotics and prebiotics, especially with regard to colon cancer development. Several studies with animal models have demonstrated the preventative effects of these food ingredients in carcinogen-induced tumourigenesis. However, most of the underlying mechanisms between colon tumour cells and probiotics and prebiotics remain to be elucidated.

It was always Annett’s wish to return to the laboratory after her career break should it be possible. Now, thanks to the Elizabeth Nuffield Educational Fund and the Daphne Jackson Trust, Annett is back doing the research that she loves.

Her PhD research began at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and has been her companion to various parts of the world. The trip from Stockholm-Sweden, Oslo-Norway and Cambridge-UK has been adventurous with PhD in a suitcase. Professors Jerker Lundqvist at the KTH in Stockholm, Halina Dunin-Woyseth and Matthias Kaiser in Oslo, and Koen Steemers ……  in Cambridge, have been part of the journey with experience of lifetime travelling with her into the future.

She obtained a chemistry lectureship at Stirling University in 1989, after Chemistry and Physics had been cut back from degree courses to support subjects for other degrees.  Maureen was unsuccessful in obtaining funding for chemistry research and over the years she became involved in Women and science issues, successfully obtaining funding for several women and science projects, including European funding for international research.  She has developed a keen awareness of many of the issues facing women in the sciences and engineering and will offer reflections on these in her chapter alongside an outline of her career and life progression