Professor Emma Flynn, Warwick’s Provost, shared how her biggest failures have helped to define her, enabling her to get where she is today. Emma described both her personal and professional journey and welcomed questions from the audience.

Emma joins Warwick from Queen’s University Belfast, where she has been Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) for the last four years, leading on the institution’s people, partnerships, infrastructure and policy strategies.

She's a leading developmental and comparative psychologist whose research investigates the production and transmission of innovation. Emma has extensive international collaborative links with biologists, philosophers, computer scientists and statisticians.

In her current role, Emma has worked closely with local and national bodies to develop and utilise the world-leading research produced by Queen’s to have significant disciplinary, societal, environmental and economic impact.

Within the higher education sector, she’s overseen major international recruitment campaigns, established integrated planning and strategy structures, and led highly effective culture-change programmes.

Before joining Queen's University Belfast, she worked at Durham University as Deputy Provost – and, before this, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health.