‘Different doesn’t scare me’: Mary Pierre-Harvey has big plans for Oxford Brookes

By Jordan Marshall2019-09-06T05:00:00

The UK’s first black female director of estates at a large UK university talks to Building

Mary Pierre-Harvey is in the driveway of her home, about to leave for the day. As she snaps her seatbelt on, the phone rings and one look at the caller ID tells her it’s the call she’s been waiting for. The person on the other end, a representative of Oxford Brookes University – voted the country’s best research university under 50 years old, three years running – tells her the good news, the result she wanted but thought might not be attainable.

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