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Utrecht, Netherlands

• Knowledge Development: Created useable guidance and tools that translated academic and professional research into practical frameworks for local government policy officers, planners, and developers.• Translation of Spatial Policy: Helped stakeholders understand and translate spatial policy into actionable insights for sport and physical activity, empowering them to influence policy application effectively.• Expert Guidance in Design Solutions: Delivered expert advice on best practices in spatial solutions, collaborating with a major developer to produce a comprehensive design guide for movement-friendly environments.• Engaging Workshop Facilitation: Designed and led innovative workshops featuring pan-European experts, enhancing understanding of movement-friendly principles among stakeholders.

• Advocacy & Policy: Provided policy recommendations, delivered public speaking engagements, and created tools to support advocacy initiatives.• Research Analysis: Conducted in-depth analysis of physical activity, identifying barriers and motivations for behavior change in inactive populations.• Project Design: Designed pan-European participatory research projects using a self-developed modelapplying tactical urbanism principles to physical activity.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

• Embedded Healthy Place Shaping: Tailored knowledge products and training programs to fit the strategic strengths and opportunities of multiple local governments.• National Representation: Advocated for systems-based approaches to healthy behavior change on national platforms using written, oral, and digital media.• Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Facilitated co-design and collaboration across departments, and connected local communities to power, through communities of practice.• Influenced Investment & Policy: Secured political support and investment for initiatives such as asset-based community development, partnership working, and participatory research.• Advocacy for Marginalized Voices: Amplified the voices of individuals facing barriers to healthy lifestyles, enabling them to influence decision-makers and become leaders in their communities.

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

• Attracted Investment: Identified and coached community members, leading to six-figure investments for sustainable programs co-designed public spaces, media diversification, urban sport and gamification of walking.• Stakeholder Engagement: Built strategic relationships with London's built environment stakeholders,s speaking at industry events to promote active environments.• Public Space Regeneration: Influenced local government to adopt community-led public space regeneration, through a demonstration project in a deprived neighborhood that realized a tenfold increase in usage.• Team Leadership: Led organizational working groups and line-managed cross-departmental project officers, ensuring project success.

London, United Kingdom

Press Engagement: Built relationships with community-led initiatives and crafted compelling case studies that gained media attention and promoted the organization’s message to decision-makers.

Worldwide

• Strategic Insight: Delivered feasibility studies for large-scale facility investments, planning inquests, ESRI-funded impact assessments, participatory research, logic models, outcomes-based data analysis, and evaluation reports.• International Reporting: Produced real-time event reporting for international multi-sport events,• Wrote 'The Other Olympics' - an non-fiction narrative focused on international multi-sport events that deliver non-sporting community legacy and social impact.[clients inc. contracts and sub-contracting for University of Birmingham, Wigan Culture and Leisure Trust, Sports Coach UK, LEAP, Chance 2 Shine, Lagardere Sports, the Asian Football Confederation, 2013 South East Asian Games, 2012 Winter World Transplant Games, Young Guns Media, TriNorth]

Yangon, Myanmar

• Digital Reporting Innovation: Pioneered the nation’s first digital live-blog reporting during Myanmar’s historic free elections, gaining global media attention.• Staff Development & Content Creation: Balanced long-term development of inexperienced staff with limited English proficiency while ensuring the production of a daily English-language newspaper.• Media Partnerships & Revenue Generation: Established commercial media partnerships and coached the sales team to enhance revenue without compromising journalistic standards, turning the sports desk into a sustainable profit center.

Yangon, Myanmar

Process Improvement & Output Growth: Tripled newsroom content output by reorganizing production processes and improved audience engagement using SEO and Google Analytics.• Cultural Adaptation: Reworked content for English-language publications, working with local journalists to adapt articles to different cultural expectations.

Birmingham

• Stakeholder Confidence & Funding: Retained stakeholder confidence in a £9.3 million public health program by demonstrating key performance indicators and effective stakeholder management, securing additional funding amid central government austerity cuts.• Built Environment Strategy: Managed the political adoption of built environment strategies.• Change Agent: Supported the department as an agent of change during a transition from direct delivery to strategic commissioning.• Line-Managed several development staff.

London, United Kingdom

• Research & Policy Influence: Designed, commissioned and analyzed bespoke research—from small-scale consumer panels to online surveys of 300,000+ recipients—for national partners, advising on policy based on data insights.• Training & Knowledge Transfer: Developed knowledge products and delivered training to professionals and community members, translating data and insights into actionable strategies.

East Region, England

• Investment & Bid Writing: Supported partners in restructuring funding applications to secure investments, including launching Back2Netball, a national program that continues today.• Client Relationship Management: Managed service relationships with National Governing Bodies (NGBs), advocating for social marketing, consumer insight, and robust monitoring and evaluation.

South West Region, England

• Cascade Training: Designed and delivered knowledge transfer publications and ltraining on data usage to community members and professionals unfamiliar with market insights.• Social Enterprise: Led research on social enterprise models as a sustainable strategy for sport in the region.• Change Leadership: Acted as a change agent for performance improvement through market intelligence.

Lincoln

• National Pilot Leadership: Led a national pilot on performance management and stakeholder development using Social Network Analysis and Effective Intelligence.• Research Translation: Translated national research into local strategies to exploit and enhance rural community sports infrastructure through effective research design.• Website & Brand Development: Developed the organization's first website and online content strategy, while increasing recognition through a local sports awards program linked to the BBC/Sport England awards.

Ba (Hons), Politics, 2(1) - Upper Second

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