Experience

Warwickshire Police

• United Kingdom
• Law Enforcement
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Performance & Evaluation Specialist, Learning and Development

  • Jul 2022 - Present



Higher Education Academy

• Education Administration Programs
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Fellow

  • Mar 2018 - Present



Coventry University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Professor

  • Nov 2018 - Mar 2022

  Coventry, United Kingdom To 2022: Curriculum Change Team - refreshing our courses so that they prepare future leaders for tomorrow's challenges and opportunities. To September 2019: evidencing equity and attainment gaps and evaluating measures to decrease these. Completing the leadership and evaluation of the £1m OfS-funded DRIVER project, addressing barriers to student success using learner analytics.

• Research Fellow

  • Nov 2014 - Nov 2018

  Coventry, United Kingdom Oversight and analysis of the University's student experience survey (until 2017) Researching equity and attainment in Higher Education

• Lead Evaluator

  • Sep 2013 - Nov 2014

  Coventry, United Kingdom Working for Coventry University Research Solutions (CUReS) evaluating the University's suite of ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) business support projects



Higher Education Research and Development

• Higher Education

• Associate Editor

  • Jul 2019 - Apr 2021

  During this period I handled 16 articles through the peer review process, providing feedback on manuscripts. I continue to be a reviewer for this journal.



Escuela Superior de Comunicación (ESCO)

• External Examiner

  • Nov 2006 - Oct 2014

  Spain I have reviewed the standards of a range of teaching organisations outside the UK over an eight year period; including ESP Valladolid, (2006-2008); Formatic Barna, Barcelona (2007-2010); Centro Andaluz de Estudios Empresariales (CEADE); Seville (2009-2013); Modern University for Technology and Information (MTI), Cairo (2012 – 13) and Escuela Superior de Comunicación (ESCO), Granada (2012-14).



De Montfort University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Lecturer & Research Fellow

  • Oct 2010 - Sep 2013

  Teaching sustainable development, socioeconomics of climate change, energy policy and human factors. Social science research of sustainability issues, focussing on human behaviour, using qualitative and quantitative data. I was also involved in externally funded projects, including the behaviour change evaluation of Smartspaces, a multi-million pound EU project to improve energy efficiency in buildings.



Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development

• PhD

  • Jan 2007 - Sep 2011

  De Montfort |University Psychology and Communication: An evaluation of the role of communications in encouraging sustainable behaviour.



Leeds Beckett University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• External Examiner

  • 2005 - 2009



Birmingham City University

• Senior Lecturer

  • 2002 - 2006

  Course Leader, CIPR Advanced Certificate in Public Relations. Degree Leader, BA Media and Communications (Public Relations).



Freelance

• PR practitioner, editor and media trainer

  • 1997 - 2004

  News Editor for a web-based news service for managers in the public sector, Contributor to DfES publications, media and communication training for local councils, primary care groups, careers services, head teacher training courses, plus consultancy for a variety of smaller clients.



Coventry City Council

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Team Leader - Public Relations

  • 1996 - 1997

  Public relations consultancy to an organisation with 16,000 staff, supervising a team of five colleagues and budgetary responsibilities, performance measurement of team’s achievements.



BBC CWR

• Assistant Editor

  • 1993 - 1995

  Line manager for 20 staff including news and programme teams, responsible for 35 hours of peak programming per week, member of a management team spending £1m per annum.

• Producer

  • 1989 - 1993

  Newsgathering, presenting and current affairs programme production.



Warwickshire Police

• Press and Public Relations Officer

  • 1987 - 1989

  Senior civilian post running press office and public relations function.