Imperial Lifelong Learning helps individuals and organisations stay ahead in a rapidly changing world. 

We are Imperial College London’s home for advanced, flexible learning beyond traditional degree programmes designed for people and organisations who want to build new capabilities, deepen expertise, or lead change at every stage of their lives and careers. 

Whether you are an independent learner or an organisation, we partner with you to develop skills and knowledge that respond to real‑world challenges, now and in the future.  We work closely with specialist teams to translate research into practical, applied learning you can use immediately in your career, organisation or institution.

Working across Imperial’s faculties and interdisciplinary communities, we bring together executive and professional education, summer courses, and a global online education into one connected portfolio.

Designed to fit around real lives and real work, Imperial Lifelong Learning complements degrees and extends Imperial’s impact, supporting learning before, alongside, between, and after formal study.

Science for Humanity

We help people and organisations stay ahead of what’s next.

From AI and engineering biology to cleantech and emerging technologies, we bring science to humanity so that you can navigate complexity and shape what comes next.

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Rather than standalone courses, our pathways reflect how people and organisations build capability and impact as priorities evolve.

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Science for humanity

Imperial’s Science for Humanity strategy commits the university to using science to improve lives, economies and societies. Lifelong Learning is an expression of that commitment. We extend expertise beyond degrees supporting learners across their lives and careers and ensuring that discovery becomes impact not someday, but now.

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Learning rooted in connection

Our participants engage as part of cohorts and networks that reflect how knowledge is developed and applied in the real world. These learning communities support collaboration, motivation and sustained engagement, reinforcing Imperial’s role not just as a provider of education, but as a partner in lifelong development.

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Translating research into capability

For us, the central question is not just how learning is delivered, but whether it changes what people and organisations are able to do. Our learning is shaped around real‑world roles, decisions and challenges ensuring that new knowledge is not abstract, but directly applicable, building capability where it can make the greatest difference.

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Our Team

  • Heather Haseley

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    Heather Haseley Chief Lifelong Learning Officer

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    Heather Haseley is the inaugural Chief Lifelong Learning Officer at Imperial College London, where she leads Imperial Lifelong Learning, a central pillar of the Science for Humanity strategy. She is dedicated to bridging the gap between discovery and practice, ensuring that science-led, future-focused learning uplifts individuals, businesses, and communities globally. 

  • Kate Forman

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    Kate Forman Director of Operations and Programme Delivery

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    Working closely with the Chief Lifelong Learning Officer and senior leadership team, Kate plays a central role in translating strategic ambition into effective delivery, ensuring the organisation is operationally robust, financially sustainable and positioned for long-term growth.

  • Katie Coates

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    Katie Coates Director of Executive and Professional Education

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    Katie provides strategic leadership across Executive Education, Professional Education (CPD ) and Apprenticeship Levy programmes as part of Imperial Lifelong Learning. Her role is to build an ambitious and innovative portfolio that bridges discovery and practice, translating Imperial’s research excellence into learning with meaningful impact for individuals, organisations   and society.  

  • Toby Vaughn Kidd

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    Toby Vaughn Kidd Director of Learning Experience Futures

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    Toby has an extensive history in exploring future-facing approaches to learning, teaching, and learning experience, working in partnership with learners, academics, staff and external collaborators. Previously the Assistant Director of Experimentation and Innovation at the University of Exeter, Toby led a portfolio of high-impact initiatives in education innovation related to international partnerships, microgrants and academic research, student entrepreneurship, and the development of a future learning lab as a purpose-built experimentation space.

  • Betty Yue

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    Betty Yue Director of Global Learning Experiences

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    Betty leads the strategic development and delivery of a diverse portfolio of lifelong learning and summer programmes across the University. She is an active member of the University Programmes Committee, providing quality assurance oversight and reviewing proposals for new or significantly revised undergraduate and Master’s-level taught programmes.

  • Adam Pryce

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    Adam Pryce Director of Business Development

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    Adam's experience spans public, private and charity sectors with a particular focus on commercial development in healthcare. Adam previously served as Commercial Director at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust (the only NHS Trust registered with the OfS), where he led business development and contracting functions for the organisation as well as helping guide it to a successful merger with a neighbouring NHS Trust. 

  • Katy Alexander

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    Katy Alexander Director of Learner Marketing

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    Katy has led marketing, strategy and operations priorities across a wide range of science, research and deep-tech focused businesses. Before joining Lifelong Learning, Katy developed and scaled the marketing and analytics functions for early-stage science startups and has headed up marketing and strategy functions within large listed businesses. She is passionate about using data to empower key strategic and operational decisions. 

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