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Dan graduated from the London School of Economics in 2003 and has worked as an academic Coventry University since 2007. Here he obtained an MA in Community Cohesion Management and completed his PhD in 2021. His topic title was “The role of Institutional Trust in intergroup contact and prejudice reduction”. With a background in the social housing sector promoting community involvement, Dan has led on major national reviews of social action and social interaction projects. These include flagship projects funded by both the British Government and the EU. Ongoing EU evaluation includes both the Exceed and ConnectMe programmes. These programmes focus on transitioning long term unemployed residents of the West Midlands into skills development, training and employment. Dan has co-developed and grown an innovative and unique “micro-ethnography” based model of evaluation, tailored to engaging with and understanding the needs of organisations and individuals in the community, voluntary and faith sectors. This model combines contemporary strategic approaches, including Theory of Change, with a flexible and dynamic fieldwork methodology. Employing this model, Dan has led major evaluation projects with the Home Office and Department of Communities and Local Government and his work was recognised in 2018 as being central to the government Green Paper on integration. Dan also worked with the Metropolitan Police and local authority partners around community tension monitoring ahead of the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games. He has since co-authored 2 book chapters and one journal article on the legacy of the Rio 2016 Games. Dan presented a paper on the impact of re-development on social capital in Camden at the American Real Estate Society Conference in 2018 and another on Olympic legacy in 2019.Finally, Dan has also worked across the UK, Europe and East Africa as a freelance consultant focusing on a wide range of work including policy and programme impact, social cohesion and protective security interventions.