News
December 2021
Trustee YOPA: York Older People’s AssemblySpring 2021
Invited to join York Herstory website: describes 100 women who have shaped social and cultural life in the city across the 20th and 21st centuriesDecember 2019
Received Honorary Doctorate, London Metropolitan UniversityDecember 2018
Appointed to Board of Wilf Ward Family Trust serving adults with learning disability across Yorkshire – appointed Chair, April 2019November 2018
Received Honorary Doctorate, York St John UniversityOctober 2018
Appointed to York Museums Trust Board; subsequently appointed Vice Chair, September 2019July 2017
CoY invitation to oversee development of the inaugural York Mediale Festival – York’s expression of UNESCO designated status: City of Media ArtsMay 2016
Invitation to join the Board of DCMS-sponsored Great Exhibition of the North – delivered in Newcastle, Summer 2018November 2014
Received Honorary Doctorate, Sheffield Hallem UniversityMay 2013
Dianne is founding member of York Dementia Action AllianceMarch 2012
Keynote speech at the AHUA (Association of Heads of University Administrations Annual Meeting, U of York) addressing new challenges for University trusteesFebruary 2012
Dianne invited to join YOPA (York Older People’s Assembly) and designated Older People’s ChampionDecember 2012
Dianne appointed vice chair to Joseph Rowntree Foundation/Joseph Rowntree Housing TrustJune 2011
York 800 Chair – Dianne invited to lead diverse city leaders celebrating 800 years of the city’s Royal CharterSeptember 2010
Dianne appointed Deputy Lieutenant for North Yorkshire – a role which supports the Lord Lieutenant, currently, Jo Ropner, as H.M. the Queen’s official representative in our County.
July 2010
New appointment for Dianne announced - to what is described as the renewal Governing Body at London Metropolitan UniversityJune 2010
Dianne elected Chair of York at Large – the cultural arm of Local Strategic Planning in the City of YorkApril 2010
New appointment as Vice Chair of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and performanceMay 2010
Dianne starts a new role as Non Executive Director at York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Willcocks was a founder member of Yorkshire’s first and continuing Lifelong Learning Network, Higher York.
