My services and expertise
My primary focus lies in fostering social impact and driving positive social change. Drawing upon a diverse range of experiences in both the public and third sectors, coupled with a solid research background, I offer valuable expertise to benefit your organisation. Whether in a consulting capacity, as a freelancer, facilitator, or as a non-executive director, I am committed to making a significant contribution to organisations I work with. Discover more about my range of professional services here. I constantly update this page, but if you still can’t find what you’re looking for, please feel free to get in touch with me – I will be more than happy to help.
Social impact consultancy
Highly experienced as a charity CEO, with an intuitive ability to motivate teams and fearlessly drive change in organisations.
- Extensive experience as a trustee and non-executive director within the charity and education sectors, with particular interest in change management, good governance and decision making, risk management, and ensuring underrepresented groups are actively represented on boards.
- Ability to advocate for underrepresented groups with a comprehensive understanding of inclusion and equality issues, with experience of establishing support networks within organisations.
- Coaching and mentoring for young people and educators who may be struggling with their workloads or direction.
Research
Over eighteen years’ experience as a predominately qualitative researcher with a particular interest in oral testimony and storytelling of minoritised groups. With further skills in:
- Behaviour insights, from the inception of a project, research design, delivery and recommendations.
- Archival research, including official documentation, personal diaries, testimony, and letters.
- Varied interview techniques and running focus groups.
- Data set analysis of mixed qualitative, quantitative and map data to form recommendations.
Facilitation
Highly experienced trainer and teacher, able to cover topics including:
- Gender inequality/ misogyny.
- Inclusion and diversity, including race, disability, gender, age and socio-economic differences.
- Risk management and safeguarding.
'The WRNS in Wartime'
See examples of my writing via the website for my book 'The WRNS in Wartime, the Women's Royal Naval Service 1917-1945', which formed the basis of my PhD and was published as a manuscript in 2017. The work is based on extensive archive research, oral history interviews with previous members of the WRNS, and wider historical research to explore the social, political, economic and military reasons for the creation, disbanding and recreation of this important women's auxiliary service.
Skills
PhD in War Studies from King's College London
MA History of Warfare (KCL), BSc Sociology (LSE)
CMRS
Organised, diligent and highly motivated
Excellent communicator:
verbally and written. Can communicate with people from all backgrounds.
Highly competent with Office 365 packages, Canva
Career Highlights
Research consultant in behavioural insights
Customer Research Manager (mat leave cover) for Prostate Cancer UK
Research Manager for an award winning social marketing agency
Head of A Level Sociology at an 'Outstanding' sixth form college 10+ years
PGCE Post 16 education
Voluntary work
5 years as CEO (voluntary) for Girlguiding Surrey West (County Commissioner).
Inclusion and Growth Lead Volunteer for Girlguiding London and South East England
Trustee Surrey Youth Focus, Girlguiding Surrey West
Former trustee for Girlguiding LaSER
Board Apprentice: Arts University Bournemouth
Current projects
Updated January 2026
Prostate Cancer UK
Customer Research Manager (Prostate Cancer UK) - managing all aspects of research across different teams and departments in the charity to understand customer experience and journeys.
Hitch Marketing
Research Manager in behaviour insights. Working with third sector, NHS and private sector clients. I managed all elements of the research process - developing primary research design, conducting and analysing research, writing insight reports and evaluating campaigns. Clients included Tower Hamlets Borough Council, Arriva Trains, Wigan Council, Kidney Research UK, West Northamptonshire ICB.
Charities in Mid Sussex
Exploring ways to ensure young people with LGBTQ+ identities feel welcomed and supported within different youth charities across mid Sussex.
Desk research
Diverse and varied, from exploring what puts individuals at risk of developing kidney disease, to identifying barriers to people stopping smoking, I am adept at exploring a new topic and identifying key trends and patterns.
Volunteering
Managing a team to drive Girlguiding LaSER's strategy for inclusion and impact. This has included developing approaches to recruit new volunteers, expand support for making the organisation as inclusive as we can, and developing the M+C volunteer team.