John King!Engentia!Enterprise Lab!Royal Holloway, University of London!Egham, Surrey!TW20 0EX!!Friday, 4 July 2014!!!To whom it may concern!!RE: Reference for Gavin Harper!!Gavin designs and delivers half-day enterprise and collaboration workshops for PhD students, post-docs, and new lecturers as part of Engentia’s academic collaboration training programme, Open.!!Through his practical experience, Gavin has developed the ability to communicate complex technical information derived from his own research effectively to a range of audiences, including both science and arts/humanities students and academic staff. He is able to make his knowledge simple and accessible by demonstrating a range of communication styles, including clear and concise verbal and written delivery, the use of graphics, and through practical demonstrations.!!Gavin has a particular talent for extracting the most important and relevant parts of highly technical documents, derived from basic research, and communicating them effectively through the simultaneous use of multiple media. For instance, he was able to impart sufficient information to students to enable them to design and build a rocket using mostly household items in no more than 10 minutes. Once the practical exercise was completed, Gavin was able to help student put their practical learning back in to a theoretical context by helping students to make connections between their practical experience and theories of team working drawn from psychology and organizational studies. !!Gavin’s ability to move from theory to practice and back whilst keeping ideas simple and accessible is a rare skill and should be encouraged. Complex ideas can be simply communicated. I have no doubt that Gavin would bring his unique perspective and skills to the HEA Fellowship and could contribute greatly as a Fellow.!!Yours faithfully,!! !!!!!John King!Director, Engentia!!!!!!!!