UA-171643620-1 Olivia Collins Working Hours Interview - Working Hours

Episode 21

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15th Sep 2025

Work Can Help You Get Ahead

Recorded on 07/04/2025

Olivia Collins is the Marketing and Communications Manager at Ahead Partnership, a purpose-led business which drives inclusive growth and social impact through bespoke skills and careers engagement programmes that support young people.

Olivia is a Philosophy graduate from the University of Leeds, specialising in ethics and aesthetics. Olivia started her marketing career in the recruitment industry before gaining experience agency-side and moving to Ahead Partnership.

In her current role, she develops and implements marketing and communications strategies for social impact programmes across the UK.

Olivia's favourite programmes to work on include initiatives that help to break down barriers and challenge stereotypes for young women before they enter the world of work. These include Ahead Partnership’s flagship Girl Tech programme which connects young women aged 12-14 with role models in digital and technical roles aiming to address gender diversity and bias in the digital and tech sectors.

More information about Girl Tech can be found here: https://www.aheadpartnership.org.uk/girl-tech

https://www.linkedin.com/company/girls-and-tech/

You can find Olivia on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivia-c-m-collins/

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Working Hours
The Story of Work in Leeds in the 2020s
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Western Studios, Leeds presents Working Hours: a podcast series surveying the people of Leeds on their thoughts and feelings on the topic of work. I want to talk to my city about work. Why do we do it? Do we like it? What could we do differently? What will we? How does work change and how does it change us?
Leeds, the largest city in the largest county on the UK mainland, is a former imperial textile centre and is now a major UK financial centre. This series will document the city’s experiences through Lockdown, Brexit, creeping technological unemployment, new and continuing resource wars, the ongoing dismantling of the welfare state and our accelerating ecological emergency.
If you are in Leeds or from Leeds then help me to reach my target of interviewing 1000 Loiners over the 2020s. Let me ask you, what do you do?
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