Laura provides strategic leadership across the University’s Human Resources Directorate, encompassing HR Business Partnering & Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, HR Operations, and Health, Safety & Wellbeing. As the University’s senior people professional, she advises the University Executive Group on all matters affecting staff and culture, ensuring people-related impacts are central to institutional decision-making.
Key responsibilities include:
- Strategic leadership of the HR Directorate and its services
- Overseeing the development of people related policies and practices that ensure we attract, develop, reward and retain excellent staff from diverse backgrounds
- Promoting a healthy and safe work environment which prioritises staff wellbeing, working closely with the University Registrar and Secretary in their capacity as Chair of the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Committee.
- Chair of our Joint Consultative Committee in support of positive employee and industrial relations
- Advisor to the Reward and Remuneration Committee, supporting the Chair in delivering the committee’s objectives in compliance with the CUC code of conduct.
Laura joined the University of Plymouth in 2012 and was appointed Director of Human Resources following a successful tenure as Head of HR. A Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, Laura brings over 20 years of HR experience across public and private sectors.