Innovation Advisor

• Sep 2021 - Present

Consultant

• Jan 2020 - Aug 2021

As a consultant at Rocket Science, I provided advice and expertise on service design, delivery and evaluation to help public and third sector services better meet the needs of the people using them. Rocket Science’s work in employment and skills, health and wellbeing, and poverty and welfare meant that I often worked across intersecting issues, giving me a holistic view of how people use services in the third and public sector. My recent projects included:• Research scoping study on meeting the needs of individuals and families experiencing suicide bereavement and other forms of disenfranchised grief• Evaluation of specialist healthcare pilot services commissioned by NHS England• Review of best practice in integrated care in mental health and addiction services • Evaluation of the Greater London Authority’s youth social action and employability programmes

Heritage Futures Project Assistant

• Jun 2018 - Jan 2020

As part of the Heritage Futures AHRC Large Grant research programme, I helped to coordinate the production of the project's co-authored academic manuscript and supported our large team to run and attend international events, managing our expenses. I also managed and wrote content for our project's active website.

Student Museum Engager

• Apr 2016 - Jun 2019

I was part of a team of UCL PhD students working across UCL's three on-campus museums. I spoke and blogged about my research for diverse museum visitors and audiences. I also helped organise and give popular lectures at events to share UCL's research with the public.

Postgraduate Teaching Assistant

• Sep 2016 - Sep 2018

In 2017-2018, I was the postgraduate writing tutor for the Institute of Archaeology, primarily meeting 1-1 with students to improve their academic writing. I also ran writing workshops and created new guidance sheets around common writing issues.In 2016-2017, I was one of the teaching assistants for the MA in Cultural Heritage Studies. I designed and led weekly small-group seminars from course and lecture themes, and also ran the field trip programme and maintained online course resources alongside other teaching staff. I have also designed two short heritage courses for GCSE and A-level age groups for UCL's Widening Participation Summer School (2017) and for the Birmingham-based youth heritage project Kick The Dust, affiliated with Heritage Futures (2018).

Researcher

• Feb 2016 - Jan 2020

I worked as a freelance researcher and consultant across UCL and in a voluntary capacity for charities in London. At UCL, I compiled literature reviews and annotated bibliographies for research grants. I also helped to gather evidence on the public impact of academic research projects for the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessment. Through UCL's Evaluation Exchange Programme, I conducted a six-month review of evaluation practice for an east London arts company and piloted improvements in their evaluation tools and methods.

Archaeological Collections Management and Research

• Apr 2011 - Aug 2014

At Stanford University, I worked on two different archaeology projects as a collections assistant and student researcher. In summer 2013 and 2014, I worked at Stanford Catalhöyük Research Project in Çumra, Turkey to help manage on-site processing, documentation, and access to artefacts for over a hundred international researchers on a busy archaeological dig. From 2011-2013, I did part-time work cataloging and assisting with collections management for the Stanford Market Street Chinatown Project. I also helped produce creative and educational programs for the public with these materials.

Undergraduate Research Fellow

• Nov 2011 - Dec 2012

Created a database of the astronomer Galileo’s correspondence from digitized archive materials, used data visualisation software to create preliminary models of 17th century intellectual networks.

Archaeology Intern

• Sep 2013 - Jun 2014

Team planning and completion of research excavation, park heritage outreach and management, GIS, flotation. Lab analysis of Spanish colonial and later materials. Assisted in development of volunteer program and public education events. Team planning and completion of research excavation, park heritage outreach and management, GIS, flotation. Lab analysis of Spanish colonial and later materials. Assisted in development of volunteer program and public education events.