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Bradford, England, United Kingdom

We work with people to reimagine their streets and spaces to make them feel safer, bring joy and social connection.

Creative engagement and collaborative design to strengthen civil society, tackle the drivers of extremism and build a thriving, cohesive Barking and Dagenham.

London

We connect single people who Give A Damn. Join us for documentaries, talk-fuelled dinner parties and events in weird and wonderful locations in London.www.giveadamndating.co.uk

Leading in the development and delivery of community street design and active travel projects across London, making streets and spaces more 'liveable' and better for walking and cycling. Led a complex and innovative traffic calming scheme on New Park Road, Brixton Hill to reduce accidents and increase the quality of the street environment outside a Richard Atkins Primary school. I managed the life cycle of this award winning scheme from community and stakeholder engagement, design to delivery over a 12 month period and sourced additional funding for the permanent works from Transport for London.

London, United Kingdom

I led an innovative community street design project on the Becontree Estate in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. This two year project aimed to create more liveable streets and spaces with residents at the heart of the co-design process, culminating in significant infrastructure changes to the value of £300,000. With the long term aim of increasing walking and cycling rates this project combines urban design, community engagement and sustainable transport planning to create better places for people to live in and move through.The project was featured at the New London Architecture FIT:London exhibition and I recently spoke at the Design Council's Active by Design summit about how community street design can be a catalyst for increasing walking and cycling within a local area. Visit the project blog for more information: www.diyporterslodge.wordpress.com

London, United Kingdom

Uscreates is a social change agency with a mission to develop effective ways to respond to social challenges. Clients include:Trafford Partnerships and the Design CouncilGloucestershire PCTThe Children's Society

London, United Kingdom

Various consultancy projects for private and non-profit sector clients: - cultural insights research with teenage girls in Ethiopia, Girl Hub Ethiopia (Nike Foundation/DfID) and Ruby Pseudo Consulting.- qualitative research project exploring how to maximise the impact of tourism on the local economy in Cyprus, The Travel Foundation and Pelagos Consulting- developed a range of social impact measurement systems for a youth media charity, Mediorite- co-designed a new digital platform to facilitate micro-volunteering in care homes and community organisations in Tower Hamlets and Hackney

United Kingdom

Worked on the development of a Concept Note for an EC proposal: 'Design for a Better World' exhibition.Project lead for Farm Business Advisor programme Mozambique.

London

At the heart of this innovative 10-month programme is the link between learning about the concept and practice of sustainability and applying those ideas in the real world. As one of only 12 students I took up placements in six work sectors. I also completed two tailor-made modules on leadership development at the highly acclaimed Leadership Trust.

Developed an internal sustainability policy and worked on a brand sustainability strategy

Carried out a listening project with Brand Managers and Directors on sustainability

Researched and developed narrative style articles on illegal waste

Researched and developed a community planning tool for Town & Community Councils

London, United Kingdom

Reviewed Producer Audit reports and designed framework for Producer Impact information

Cameroon

• Strategic planning and programme development for Ministry of Agriculture at grassroots level• Developed and co-ordinated capacity building training to support farming co-operatives• Developed funding proposals and managed projects in partnership with the local community• Designed Monitoring and Evaluation systems to measure project effectiveness• Initiated sustainable energy education project training over 30 students in partnership with the Centre for Appropriate Technology: Cameroon

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Provided communications assistance to Oxfam shops and supporters in the UK• Assisted with event organising and volunteer recruitment

• Co-ordinated daily operations of a small grass roots charity providing emergency overnight accommodation for young people in the homes of volunteers.• Liaised with project partners for strategy development• Prepared funding applications, volunteer recruitment and training

Day to day front-line care role in an elderly medicine ward.

Sri Lanka

• English teaching to children and adults• Managed small scale income generation project for vulnerable women and a micro finance credit project.

Ma, Leadership For Sustainable Development

Activities and Societies: Innovative work based learning course led and hosted by think tank Forum for the Future -Two residential courses.

Ba (Hons) 2:1, English And Drama

Activities and Societies: Birmingham University Officer Training Corps (BUOTC), Officer Cadet September 2005 - 2008 Action for Children.