Dr. Ben Webb Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Strategic leader driving impactful education and research initiatives across academic and commercial sectors. Responsible for designing and managing programs that combine expert tutoring, university admissions, and educational enrichment for UK and Chinese students. Oversee program delivery, stakeholder engagement, and strategic growth, leveraging data analytics to enhance outcomes and inform research strategies.Key Achievements & Responsibilities:+ Program Development: Designed tailored learning programs and implemented data-driven metrics to track student progress, refine teaching methods, and improve academic outcomes.+ Leadership and Collaboration: Built and managed a network of 127 expert tutors delivering comprehensive academic support and admissions guidance across the UK and China.+ Admissions Success: Guided 197 A-Level and IB students to successful admissions at top-tier universities globally.+ Academic Impact: Enhanced performance for 318 secondary and university students through targeted tutoring and evidence-based teaching approaches.+ Strategic Partnerships: Secured collaborations with schools, tutoring agencies, and universities to scale the consultancy’s reach and impact.+ Policy Innovation: Implemented data-driven university admissions policies for Chinese institutions and developed governance policies to support equitable access to education.+ Research Leadership: Managed research portfolios across charity and academic sectors, facilitated policy workshops for evidence-based decision-making, and developed impact evaluation frameworks to assess program effectiveness.

London, Uk

Strategic leader delivering innovative consulting, training, and digital learning solutions across neuroscience, brain health, and psychology. Expert in developing and implementing research strategies, impact evaluation frameworks, and capacity-building programs for charities, health organisations, and academic institutions.Key Achievements & Responsibilities:Research Strategy and Impact:+ Developed and implemented research strategies for three university departments, introducing quantitative impact frameworks and assessment tools to monitor research outputs.+ Designed and deployed an early career researcher (ECR) assessment framework adopted by multiple institutions, improving research development outcomes.Digital Learning and Program Design:+ Launched and scaled a digital learning platform serving 20,000+ users, integrating expert-led courses, a community hub, and consultancy services.+ Established a healthcare training programme supporting 900+ practitioners in research translation.+ Created specialised training workshops for social care services, children’s charities, fostering agencies, and schools.+ Achieved a 95% satisfaction rate through a data-driven analytics framework to optimise user experience and program effectiveness.Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships:+ Built strategic partnerships with local governments, charitable organisations, and healthcare providers to expand training program reach and impact.+ Developed a mentoring network connecting clinicians, researchers, and practitioners to foster collaboration and capacity-building.Public Engagement and Knowledge Sharing:+ Created a Brain Health YouTube channel (4,000+ subscribers) to promote inclusive and accessible research communication.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Led strategic research portfolio management and culture initiatives. Led and managed interdisciplinary research team investigating and leveraging neuroplasticity for digital therapeutics development.+ Led strategic research portfolio management and culture initiatives. Led and managed interdisciplinary research team investigating and leveraging neuroplasticity for digital therapeutics development.+ Managed £5M research portfolio comprising 25+ active grants using standardised monitoring framework.+ Secured £1.5M+ research funding through strategic partnerships with medical research charities.+ Improved institutional grant success rates by 36% through grant advisory system.+ Led development of cross-institutional neuroscience research network connecting 50+ researchers. + Established ECR fellowship scheme supporting 80+ researchers with 70% securing independent funding+ Implemented department-wide research culture assessment and improvement initiatives.+ Developed digital therapeutics through inclusive clinical-academic partnerships.

University Of Nottingham

Secured Wellcome Trust award to fund my salary and a research team to investigate neuroplasticity and learning and develop digital therapeutics of neuro-developmental disorders. Published research papers and presented at neuroscience and digital therapeutics research conferences. Lectured and tutored undergraduate psychology and neuroscience students.

Secured Leverhulme Trust award to fund my salary to investigate neuroplasticity and learning. Contributed to the development of University-wide research fellowships funding scheme and activities. Published research papers and presented at national and international neuroscience research conferences.

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Led innovative university spin-out consultancy, bridging academia and industry through data-driven approaches. Applied AI, advanced analytics, and Python/R programming to inform policy decisions and solve complex challenges in higher education. Managed research commercialization and partnerships, translating academic insights into impactful policies and business solutions.+ Conducted policy impact analyses and developed predictive models for educational outcomes+ Orchestrated end-to-end consulting engagements, from needs assessment to implementation+ Created interactive dashboards for real-time policy monitoring and business intelligence+ Implemented agile methodologies to deliver high-quality solutions across diverse projects+ Facilitated knowledge transfer workshops on data-driven decision-making for policymakers and industry leaders

Worked in world-leading neuroscience research laboratory, investigating neuroplasticity of single neurons. Recording single neuron extracellular responses, designed and analysed/modelled data from physiology experiments.

Msc Neuroscience

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Neuroscience

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Psychology