Korinne joined the Buckinghamshire Health and Social Care Academy in July 2022 as the Programme Manager for the Faculty of Volunteering. Prior to this, Korinne was the Community Engagement and Development team manager at Buckinghamshire Council, working closely alongside Adult Social Care, Public Health, partner agencies, and the voluntary sector to build more resilient communities and improve the health and wellbeing of people in Buckinghamshire. She is a skilled manager and collaborator with experience of bringing communities and services together to design innovative initiatives. 

Korinne holds a Master’s degree in Public Services Policy & Management from Kings College London and a Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She currently serves as Treasurer (previously Chair) for the Sexual Assault & Abuse Support Service in Bucks and Milton Keynes, where she has been on the board of trustees since 2016, bringing valuable 'real life' experience of the challenges and opportunities for voluntary service providers in Buckinghamshire to her role in the Academy. 

Ruth is a mathematician by background with a BSc(Hons) and a PhD, both from the University of Kent. Her career spanning over forty years was spent in different universities, first as a lecturer in mathematics, then gradually moving into more managerial roles.

After two research fellowships, at Kent and Imperial College London, she began lecturing in maths at St Mary’s University, Twickenham in 1982. After heading up the maths department there she moved in 1990 to the University of Brighton where she stayed for eight years, moving in 1998 to London South Bank University where she was Pro Vice-Chancellor. She left there in January 2006 to lead what was to become Buckinghamshire New University as Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, retiring in January 2015. It was this appointment that brought her and her husband Martin Daniels to Buckinghamshire, moving to a rural location outside High Wycombe where they still live.

Throughout her career and into retirement, Ruth has been active in the university sector at a national level, as well as holding posts in public life both locally and more widely. She currently chairs the South Bank Colleges board, is a member of the board of London South Bank University and also deputy chair of Pearson College London. She also runs her own consultancy and undertakes voluntary work locally, primarily as a trustee of BACO (the Bucks Association for the Care of Offenders) and also as their prison support officer for HMP Grendon.

Ruth was awarded a CBE in the New Year’s Honours 2015 for services to higher education. She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Kent and an emeritus professorship from Buckinghamshire New University. She was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire in 2015 and served as the county’s High Sheriff in 2018-19.

The multi-faith workstream relies on real-life insight and ideas from people of different faiths across Buckinghamshire to be meaningful. We want to pilot new ideas and ways of working to improve wellbeing and mental health in a positive and sustainable way, creating lasting relationships between faith communities and health professionals.

There are many opportunities to get involved, including:

• Co-designing student placements for mental health nurses in faith settings.
• Co-designing and participating in a mental health training programme.
• Speaking about the relationship between spirituality, faith, and mental health as part of a lecture series to professionals and students.
• Taking part in local conversations with mental health professionals from primary and secondary care and the voluntary sector, to identify and break down barriers that prevent people from seeking advice and care.
• Setting up local programmes to respond to the mental health needs in your own communities.