Gino has worked in widening participation for 19 years. He started his career at London School of Economics where he coordinated early iterations of a range of outreach projects. He then moved to the University of Brighton, where he was Widening Participation Manager responsible for overseeing outreach.  

Following this he joined the University of Sussex, where he worked in multiple roles including Head of UK Recruitment and Widening Participation. He has been in his current role – Director of Widening Participation and Social Mobility at the University of Southampton – for a year.  

During this time Southampton has reorganised how it delivers access and participation work across the student lifecycle and written a new widening participation strategy. Gino’s particular interests are in the evaluation of widening participation and ensuring outreach is done with students rather than to them.