Category: Role

Consultant Solicitor, Chair of Governers, Trust Board Member and Non-Executive Directorships

Trustee on the Priestley Academy Trust

​The Priestley Academy Trust is a group of six schools located in Bradford, West Yorkshire.​ The Trust was formed to create a local solution in providing outstanding education and to enable our schools to work together to increase our capacity for embedding and sustaining real school improvement for the benefit of our learners. Read more


March 22, 2023 0

Contribution: Why don’t people have kidney dialysis at home?

This research will encourage more citizens with kidney disease to understand the options available to them. If they have support, they could have dialysis at home. The findings will help more patients engage with the process when they are diagnosed. It is great to see co-production threaded throughout the research project. This project shows clearly…
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September 5, 2022 0

Joint Symposium conference of the three NIHR Patient Safety Translational Research Centres Conference

Joint Symposium conference of the three NIHR Patient Safety Translational Research Centres Conference


June 16, 2022 0

Ruby’s blog of the week, 13th June 2022

‘Schools Week’ – Our blog reviewer of the week is Ruby Bhatti national leader of governance, Yorkshire and the Humber (Read more)


June 13, 2022 0

Mapping Community & Research Partner Organisation Engagement in CRN Yorkshire and Humber

A Collaborative Event with the CRN Y&H Agile Research Team (ART), the Ethnic Minority Research Inclusion (EMRI) Hub, and CRN Y&H Regional Public Research Champions (RCs)


June 9, 2022 0

National Institute of Health Research – Strategic Leadership summit

NIHR, PPI and NHSEI working together to connect communities


April 26, 2022 0

Director for Action For Community

Action for Community Ltd is a charitable company limited by guarantee and was set up on 3rd June 2009. The company is administered by a non-executive Board of Trustees, where Ruby is a director. Read more.


March 24, 2022 0

Research advisory panel member

Member of Yorkshire Cancer Research as a Research Advisory Panel Member, Yorkshire’s independent cancer charity, our aim is to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer, saving lives in Yorkshire. Read More


January 21, 2022 0

Independant Governor Support – IGOVS

Ruby has over 20 years of Governance experience and is committed to the role of good Governance in all areas of education. She was designated as a National Leader of Governance in 2016 and was trained to carry out External Reviews of Governance (ERG). Read more.


January 21, 2022 0

BIA Charity Partner webinar: Versus Arthritis and patient involvement

Speaker at the BIA Charity Partner webinar. Read more.


November 13, 2020 0

Ruby Bhatti awarded honorary doctorate from University of Bradford

Ruby Bhatti, 50, has more than 27 years’ experience in the legal field and over 25 years’ experience of various non-executive directorships in the housing, education, youth and health sectors. After dedicated more than half her life to her home city has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bradford. Read more.


November 4, 2020 0

Hear from our ambassadors.

To protect you and your loved ones from COVID-19 in the future, we really need your help. Hear from Ruby and some of her fellow ambassadors, whose lives have been touched by this terrible virus, explaining how you can make a difference. (See More)


September 15, 2020 0

Bradford Bid 2025 – appointment to the Research Advisory Group

Ruby has been appointed on to the Bradford Bid 2025 –  B2025 RESEARCH ADVISORY GROUP This group will advise the Bid Director and Bradford 2025 board on the data, evidence and it’s interpretation to feed into the writing of the bid, and upon success of the bid, to oversee the planning for and delivery of…
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August 14, 2020 0

Appointed as non exec director of Bradford Youth Development Partnership

Recently appointed as a non exec director to the Bradford Youth Development Partnership. BYDP intends to continue to build on its strengths in order to respond to the needs of disadvantaged young people. Read more


February 28, 2020 0

Appointed as Faculty Community Fellow to the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences at the University of Bradford

Appointed as a Faculty Community Fellow at the University of Bradford in their Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences. Read more.


February 26, 2020 0

Research Industry Facing Day 2019

Senior representatives from GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Sanofi Aventis and IQVIA met with our clinical and research staff at BTHfT’s Research Industry Facing Day 2019 Read more


August 2, 2019 0

Ruby Bhatti OBE, deputy CCG chair and lay member (governance)

Ruby is a solicitor with over 20 years’ experience in the legal field. As a lay member, she brings over 20 years’ experience in governance as a non –executive director, presently with Incommunities Housing Association, Action For Business Ltd, Arise Yorkshire Ltd (social enterprises), Bradford Diocesan Academies Trust and Dixon Multi Academies Charitable Trust Ltd.…
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May 15, 2019 0

Trustee receives OBE

Ruby Bhatti, Trustee Board member of Dixons Academies Trust and Bradford Diocesan Academies Trust, was honoured with an OBE for services to Young People and Housing over the Christmas break.  A nominee for Governor of the Year at the 2018 Bradford Schools Awards, Ruby also has more than two decades of experience as a solicitor.  …
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January 16, 2019 0