Experience

Data Orchard

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

• Co-Chief Executive

  • Sep 2018 - Present

  (with Sian Basker)

• Research Consultant & Director

  • Nov 2014 - Aug 2018

  Data Orchard is a socially minded research consultancy. Our work combines specialist skills in research, statistics and data with a shared passions around making the world a better place socially, economically and environmentally



St Mary's CE Primary Academy, Dilwyn

• Chairperson of the Board (voluntary work)

  • Jul 2020 - Present

  Chair of the members of the board of St Mary's Primary CE Academy, Dilwyn (Volunteer). The board are the proprietors of the company.

• Chair of Governors

  • Sep 2013 - Oct 2021

  Strategic leadership, financial and performance management. Ensuring board members, governors, staff and families work well together as a team to make school a happy and successful place to learn.



Herefordshire Council

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Research Officer

  • May 2002 - Oct 2014

  Lead for strategic intelligence in the unitary authority, reporting to senior management and elected members. Managed a team of researchers and analysts (including public health), collecting, analysing and reporting on a broad range of statistics about Herefordshire. Social inequalities, population, housing, health, rurality, community safety, residents' surveys etc. Instrumental in developing a narrative summary report of strategic needs for the people who live and work in Herefordshire ('Understanding Herefordshire') - a joint evidence base, (usable but robust) for decision-makers in the county. Show less



World Wide Fund for nature - Southern African regional office

• Research Fellow

  • Jan 1996 - Mar 1999

  Worked in the GIS unit analysing biodiversity 'hotspots', natural resource use mapping, habitat fragmentation, aerial surveys of large mammals (elephants, rhino etc) among other interesting projects. Worked in the GIS unit analysing biodiversity 'hotspots', natural resource use mapping, habitat fragmentation, aerial surveys of large mammals (elephants, rhino etc) among other interesting projects.