Nicholas Webster Email & Phone Number

Thirsk, Gb

The Priority Project Development Team identifies new areas for anonymised administrative data research and brings together government with academic researchers to obtain funding for future ADR projects across the UK.

I am the government lead on an ESRC funded project to create a four-country dataset as part of the work of ADR UK. AD|ARC brings together agricultural business data with data on farming households and make accessible to researchers in a secure anonymised research environment.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

I led on automating many of the data flows for Welsh Government's response to the pandemic.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

I work with ADR Wales on bringing together administrative data in a secure, anonymised format to be accessible by academics through the SAIL research platform at Swansea University.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Working on developing statistical analysis of data connected to teacher diversity in schools as part of the civil service fast stream.

Geneva Area, Switzerland

I worked with Edmund Rice International at the UN Human Rights Council for three months to report on human rights situations in the countries of the Edmund Rice Network and work to develop education resources for the network about advocacy.I am currently working with them to develop a scholarship scheme for interns from the developing world funded by schools in the more developed parts of the network and lobbying for the upcoming UK's UPR at the UNHRC.

University Of York And University Of Liverpool

I work with students with a range of needs to ensure they have the support necessary to get through the problems faced at university.This involves note taking in a very wide range of courses from chemistry to Social policy, mentoring, personal study assistance and personal care.Connected to this work, the Economics department at the University of York provide funding for me to develop some of their resources for visually impaired students.

Phnom Penh Cambodia

I worked with the coordination team running the Disability Rights Initiative Cambodia (DRIC) programme which is jointly run by WHO, UNDP and UNICEF. I am currently analysing government policy with respect to the SDGs and the CRPD. In this time I am also conducting research for my MA on the rights of persons with disabilities in Camboda.This work has also involved developing a series of interactive, accessible infographics to communicate government policy to the general public.

York, United Kingdom

I have developed several websites for several different organisations in Joomla (Content Management System). The first was for an independent composer to promote himself, this had Paypal and SoundCloud implementation. The second was for the Northern Universities Catholic Societies and involved several different user accounts all being allowed to edit certain areas of the website. I have also contributed to the development of several other websites.I am currently working with the Catholic Association to develop a website for their annual pilgrimage to Lourdes.

United Kingdom

Using UFT (Unified Functional Testing) and ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) to automate a regression pack of tests. I also worked in a group of ten interns to perform a consultancy task around digitization. This included two weeks work in their Bangkok office handing over the maintenance of the regression pack to their testing team.

Manchester, United Kingdom

I did some basic SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) work and developed a web crawler to compare product prices across several different websites. This required PHP and SQL.

Warrington, United Kingdom

Automating an installation package of software and creating a testing pack. This work was done in MS Powershell.

I was hired as extra help at their monthly warehouse stock takes.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Post-War Recovery Studies, Merit

Practical taught masters covering theories of conflict, research in conflict affected environments, issues surrounding migration both.

Master'S Degree, Theoretical Physics, 1St

Activities and Societies: Catholic Student's Society, Anglican Student's Society, Physics Society, Student ambassador at several open days.