Experience

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  Environmental Change Institute (ECI), Universit...

  • Oxford, England, United Kingdom

  • Research Associate

    • Sep 2022 - Present
    • Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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  Sustainable Consumption Institute

  • Manchester, England, United Kingdom

  • Industrial Liaison Officer

    • Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
    • Manchester, England, United Kingdom

    The role was to give advice and consultancy to SMEs in Greater Manchester about plastics usage and to link those wanting additional help to chemistry professionals within the Hub. The focus was on the creation and undertaking of innovative plastics projects to increase sustainability, with partic...

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  University of Manchester

  • Manchester, England, United Kingdom

  • Research Associate, Sustainable Consumption Institute,

    • Jul 2019 - Oct 2020
    • Manchester, England, United Kingdom

    I worked as the sole full-timer on a project aimed increasing the proportion of plastics recycled in the UK. Working on the hypothesis that the proportion of plastics collected for recycling from households cannot be significantly increased unless confusion about what can and cannot be recycled i...

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  Aberystwyth University

  • United Kingdom
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • PhD Researcher Studying Implementation of Personal Carbon Allowances

    • Oct 2015 - Jul 2019

    Personal Carbon Allowances are a mechanism to manage and reduce UK carbon emissions. The government would run an account for each individual and fill it with carbon allowances up to its target level for consumption. Individuals would be issued with a plastic swipe card linked to the account to use when purchasing fuel (petrol, diesel, electricity, heating oil or gas) and their account would be charged with the carbon footprint of the fuel. If insufficient allowances remained in the account then the price paid for fuel would be higher: on the other hand excess allowances could be sold for cash. There are a number of implementation issues which caused the government to call it "an idea ahead of its time" in 2008: I am working on overcoming these issues.Having reformulated the model over a two year period, by late 2017 I was able to persuade cross-party members of the Welsh Assembly to put forward a motion asking the Welsh Government to evaluate a mandatory trial of Personal Carbon Allowances in Wales: this was passed unanimously. However, opposition motions are not binding on the government and further developments await. Implementation of a pilot would turn the eyes of the carbon-conscious world to Wales.

  • MSc in Food & Water Security

    • Sep 2014 - Sep 2015

    The MSc is an introduction to the issues facing the world, covering climate change, food security, food sovereignty, water over-use, biodiversity and the politics of inaction and change. Specialist subjects covered included the Californian drought and Welsh Woodlands Policy, both of which illustrate government myopia and unresponsiveness in their different ways.

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  Self-employed

  • Investment Analyst

    • Jul 2007 - Aug 2014

    Investigating and analysing equity opportunities, mostly small listed companies, for clients.

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  Muliple Smaller businesses, predominantly retai...

  • London, Swansea

  • Financial Director

    • Sep 1987 - Jul 2014
    • London, Swansea

    I worked for Dixons Stores Group for six years in a number of roles including Retail Controller and Head of Financial Planning before becoming Financial Director of a 38 branch chain of opticians and then 2 VC backed businesses. I was then FD at Swansea City FC before orgainising its buyout by lo...