Experience

Law Centre NI

• United Kingdom
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Policy Officer

  • Apr 2018 - Present



Ulster University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Final year PhD Candidate

  • Sep 2014 - Present

  My PhD is entitled “Poor Citizens: Social Security and the Unemployed 1979 – 2015”. It is socio-legal thesis which traces the increasing conditionality in the British social security system through the theoretical lens of social citizenship and legal contractualism in western welfare states. It attempts to place the rapidly changing legislative landscape in its social and political context, exploring the influence of developing political ideologies on the construction of social security law. There is a particular focus on areas of political and legal interface in an attempt to understand the ongoing tension between the law making role of government and the adjudication responsibility of the judiciary.



The British Psychological Society

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Northern Ireland Assembly Liaison Officer (as part of my role at MCE)

  • Sep 2013 - Sep 2014



MCE Public Relations

• Senior Public Affairs Client Executive

  • Mar 2012 - Sep 2014

  MCE is one of Northern Ireland’s most experienced political and public affairs agencies.As a Senior Public Affairs Client Executive, I assisted clients in delivering bespoke actionable political communication strategies to develop relationships and influence government policy to achieve specific objectives in the Northern Ireland Executive and the Assembly. As well as supporting Public Affairs Director, Chris Brown and Public Affairs Manager, Arlene O'Connor with a dynamic portfolio of clients such as Sainsbury’s and Danske Bank, I managed the Public Affairs activity for the College of Occupational Therapists; the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists; the All Party Group on International Development; the All Party Group on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and the Irish Amateur Boxing Association among a wide range of others.



Management Concepts

• United States
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Publishing Intern

  • Jun 2010 - Aug 2010

  Management Concepts focuses on an individual approach to organizational achievement through high impact training courses…custom learning and development…professional services… and publications. I assisted with copy writing, policy research and the legal patenting process during my internship period.



Washington Ireland Program

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern

  • Mar 2010 - Aug 2010

  Originally called The Young Leaders Program, The Washington-Ireland Program for Service and Leadership (WIP), is a six-month program of personal and professional development that brings outstanding Protestant and Catholic university students from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to Washington, DC for summer internships and leadership training. The program begins and ends with practical service in Northern Ireland and Ireland.