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London Area, United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading a team of consultants focused on evaluation, research, strategy development, and business case projects. In addition to project leadership (project director, project manager, specialist lead), duties include business development, line management, team capability and capacity development, training, organisational management.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Responsible for generating business and leading projects, developing the business’s specialism in evaluating place-based policy and regional studies. This includes working with and deepening relationships with existing clients, as well as identifying and securing new clients, and developing collaborative relationships with other specialists and.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Working within the Innovation Management and Policy (IMP) division and the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), investigating the role of Local Enterprise Partnerships, as new models of governance, in the innovation landscape. This includes how policy for innovation is designed and delivered, as well as how actors organise.

Manchester, United Kingdom

This role entailed conducting research using both qualitative and quantitative methods, contributing to policy analysis and economic intelligence for the city region, and monitoring emerging policy at all levels, from local and regional to national, European and international contexts. Core responsibilities included managing research projects, evaluations.

Manchester, United Kingdom

This role centred on developing high profile innovative projects from concept through to implementation, shaping and developing concepts, identifying and engaging stakeholders and undertaking evidence-based project feasibility options and appraisals while determining funding options and strategies. Projects included multi-partner international.

Responsible for the operational development and delivery of a portfolio of projects across Manchester's innovation agenda, including the £7m Manchester Innovation Investment Fund. Management of this programme included direction and appraisal for applicants, and reporting to a senior board that included representatives of the Manchester Science Park, Nesta.

Responsible for co-managing a portfolio of 19 European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) projects under the North West Regional Action Plan Phase 2 across policy areas including support to new and existing businesses and tourism infrastructure. This post included project and programme management against contracted performance targets, monitoring (including.

Provided project management support to two ERDF-funded projects focused around business growth and start ups, administering grants to local businesses and entrepreneurs. In addition to project management duties, key responsibilities included ensuring spend eligibility and adherence to technical funding and practice regulations.

Worked on three ERDF projects, supporting the project manager on each, including financial and performance management. Additional duties including designing custom investment plans for inward-bound businesses.

This role focused on Tameside's inward investment activities through the 'M60 Invest' programme, the aim of which was to create jobs by growing both external and indigenous investment in the borough.

Phd, Business And Management

Thesis titled: "The English Experiment: Local Enterprise Partnerships and their effects on innovation policy design and implementation".

Msc, Local And Regional Economic Development, Merit

Dissertation titled: "Exploring the evolution of public sector innovation intermediation and governance (a case study of Greater.

Postgraduate Diploma, Local And Regional Economic Development

Ba (Hons), Communications, 2:1