About Me
I'm a research and strategy specialist with almost 20 years experience across the health and social care, education, skills and charity sectors. I genuinely love using research to help solve problems, understanding different organisations and their worlds, and I have been fortunate to work on tackling the great challenges of our time.
Achievements, Past Clients and Organisations
New Philanthropy Capital - Principal Consultant
Using research to convince major foundations and charities to change practice, winning repeat-business and managing individuals to grow their confidence and skills.
Impact Evaluation of the GLA Head
2Work programme
British Academy - Senior Policy Adverser
Driving the policy agenda in education and research. Publishing influential reports gaining international and academic citation.
Being objective about subjects - showing the value of politics and other SHAPE disciplines
Business LDN - Programme Director - London Skills Commission
Leading the London Skills Commission. Responsible for a consultation publication to launch the programme and for developing business-led policy with the MD of Lloyds, CEO of Heathrow, Vice Chairman of Deloitte and other senior partners.
Horizon Scanning Consultant - Department of Health & Social Care - Centre for Workforce Intelligence
Leading a 3-year, future-focused research programme (“Horizon 2035”) in a health and care strategy unit. We applied System Dynamics Modelling to scenarios generated by experts to quantify demand for future health and care skills.
Universities UK - Policy Analyst
Developed and delivered a programme of policy research to nudge the agenda for UK universities in health education and research. Applied quantitative skills including Tableau and SPSS, demonstrating fluency with UK policy making and data. Achievements included a flagship health publication “A picture of health and education” cited in multiple national reports and national media and authoring innovative articles.
A picture of health and education
Quoted in the Guardian
Imperial College London
Advanced quantitative analyst-programmer within transport operations consultancy unit. Achievements included presenting research at international events in Vancouver and New York.
Benchmarking Disaggregate Customer Satisfaction Scores of Bus Operators in Different Cities and Countries
The King’s Fund
Fixed-term research post in the King’s Fund Policy Directorate over the 2010 election to provide academic research and analysis capacity. Achievementsinclude co-authoring academic papers and providing analysis for “Variations in health care” and “How do quality accounts measure up?” and we received the Digital Impact Award for use of digital media by charity in 2010.
Variations in health care
How do quality accounts measure up?
The waiting game: what's happening to hospital waiting times?
Choosing a high-quality hospital
Newchurch (became Tribal PLC)
Analytical and consulting support in a healthcare management consultancy. Delivered data-analysis projects to clients, supported pitches and created advanced models and analytical tools.
