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United Kingdom

Whitley Bay / Sheffield

Kada Research is a UK and International economic development consultancy.As Director I lead on financial monitoring and planning and innovating our processes. I oversee teams delivering economic evidence bases, local and regional strategies, business cases, sector studies, and evaluations.I sit on the Kada Board with a responsibility for presenting financial performance to the Board.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

I manage and deliver projects, and maintain client relationships in Urban Foresight’s economic portfolio.Urban Foresight is a strategy and innovation consultancy focused on the smart and sustainable transformation of cities, communities, businesses and industry.Based in the UK but working globally, we help public & private sector organizations with research, strategy and projects to shape a brighter future. We take an integrated and holistic approach covering energy, environment, transport and economic growth. A core focus is the potential of rapidly emerging technology and sectors such as electric vehicles, smart energy and transport systems, and connectivity to accelerate the development of cities that deliver outcomes for city governments, businesses and people.My project examples include:.- Demand research and economic analysis to inform business cases and programme design for innovation centres in London, the North East, and Scotland.- Understanding the characteristics of high growth businesses to inform local growth strategies.- Sector specific analysis and economic modelling to inform strategic economic plans, local industrial strategies and employment land reviews for national governments, LEPs and Local Authorities.- Assessing the impact of mega trends on the resilience of cities, their economies and land use. These include urbanisation and population change, the future of work, social change and political risk (see link)- Industry 4.0 and AI applications across a range of sectors including construction, planning and manufacturing.- Smart city research and consulting including stakeholder engagement, horizon scanning and strategy development.

Cheltenham

epi Consulting is an award winning consultancy firm delivering outstanding procurement and supply chain services for global clients focused on delivering quantified business benefits through product innovation and best practice sustainability. The epi Consulting team have developed proven methodologies creating shared value through the transformation of sustainable supply chains. Our consultancy and web tools cover:Circular EconomySupplier assessment and developmentCSR Programme management and developmentSupply chain risk reductionSupply chain sustainability, reducing the social and environmental impact of your supply chainSupplier led product innovationMarket analysis and supply chain intelligencehttp://www.epiconsulting.co.uk/

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

TBR - a leading economic research and strategy consultancy, providing research, information and advisory services to public and private sector clients.I managed projects including:- ‘The changing nature of business and employment in London’ for the GLA (www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/working_paper_73.pdf)- Assessing the impact of Permitted Development Rights for several London Boroughs to inform Article 4 Directive applications.- Firm migration in the City of London.- Business premises demand studies by Grade and land use classification in several local authorities.- Creative and digital skills needs analysis and sector mapping.- Bioscience and Industrial Biotechnology skills needs and demand for training.- Multinational business consultations to inform Government policy.- SME and start-up premises demand assessment.- Local economic development analysis to inform Strategic Economic plans.- Collaborations with organisations like SQW, Capital Economics and Lambert Smith Hampton.My clients included the GLA, City of London Corporation, BEIS, Defra, Arts Council England, The Royal Academy of Engineering, Design Council and a number of sector skills councils, local authorities and universities.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

I lead the day to coordination of monitoring and evaluation of a number of high large national infrastructure projects. This included monitoring and evaluation framework design, client and partner communications, analysis, and reporting.I led on using and refining a location and spatial analysis based methodology designed in-house to model volumes of usage on each new scheme. I also led on identifying patterns and correlations between different scheme typologies and outcomes, statistically testing the data and presenting this to colleagues. An integral outcome of this was undertaking economic appraisals using DfT WebTag methodology.I oversaw the day to running of our qualitative evaluation of community involvement and engagement in our projects. This involved both designing the evaluation methodology and undertaking data capture by running focus groups with beneficiaries and stakeholder interviews with delivery and funding partners.As well as using MS Office 2010 I have used a number of bespoke online databases and survey software packages, the statistics computer programme R and the GIS software MapInfo and Earthlight.

I was recruited as Project Assistant on the evaluation programme for the Cycling City and Towns project. Sustrans was evaluating this project on behalf of the DfT.Due to my skills and experience I also directly supported the Senior Project Officer to develop our knowledge and application of economic appraisal methods. This included:- undertaking economic appraisals of our schemes using DfT WebTag methodology- reviewing current appraisal methods and an extensive review and critique of a selection of major road project appraisals, such as the Replacement Forth Crossing- working with the University of Central Lancashire to update and utilise a jointly developed Cycle Tourism Economic Impact Model.I also worked on two modelling projects. One for the North East Active Travel consortium which was designed to demonstrate the economic savings which could be made to the NHS PCTs in the North East through investing in active travel programmes as a health intervention tool.The second was for the Passenger Transport Executive Group who commissioned us to model the impacts and economic benefits of investing in cycling and walking infrastructure in the PTE areas.

London, United Kingdom

I worked on the Cities Outlook 2010 Report, including sourcing and analysing data for the report as well as contributing to the logic framework and project plan. As part of this I developed a methodology for presenting the environmental performance of cities. I also contributed extensively to a new section on Multi Area Agreements, including mapping, socio-economic profiling and writing sections of the final report. On both of these topics I undertook research before presenting to my colleagues.I was involved with other work such as a commissioned report for the Partnership for Urban South Hampshire to recommend growth strategies for the region. This involved economic data gathering and resulting profiling and mapping, identifying research areas and undertaking consultations with stakeholders. I contributed to the design of the stakeholder evaluation in terms of targeting who to interview and creating questions to provide us with the required information.I also worked on a number of presentations and press releases - including a quick release policy position on unemployment after each JSA statistics data release as part of our labour market analysis and commentary.I thoroughly enjoyed working on briefings for senior colleagues prior to media appearances and ministerial meetings.During my time at the Centre for Cities developed the online resource City Tracker, showing up to date economic data and trends for 64 Primary Urban Areas. I was responsible uploading the data to maintain this website, as well as writing the descriptions and characteristic of each PUA.The Centre for Cities also commissioned a bespoke data provision service from a private third party and I contributed to the identification of our data needs and whether the system on offer would be beneficial to the organisation. During some of my time at the Centre I worked part-time as PA to the Chief Executive at the time, Dermot Finch. A reference letter from him is attached.

London, United Kingdom

Working on the 2009 Sustainable Cities Index. Tasks for this included:- Designing the data capture and analysis methods which needed to be improved on previous years and carried forward into the future- Sourcing and analysing data required for existing indicators- Researching and justifying new indicators and identifying new data sources to collect and analyse- Carrying out interviews with local authority stakeholdersI also provided ad hoc support to the policy team, for example a number of briefing notes reviewing current economic commentary in the media and providing content to presentations for global corporate clients.

Msc Regional And Urban Planning Studies, Urban Economics And Policy, Merit

Activities and Societies: Speakers Officer, People and Planet Society - for whom I also wrote a centre-page critical review of a lecture.

Bsc Geogrpahy With Economics, Human Geography, Environmental Economics And Development, 2:1 Hons

Activities and Societies: LSE Table Tennis CaptainMacroeconomics Microeconomics Economics of international trade Environmental economics.

Geography, Economics, History, A

Activities and Societies: Young Enterprise China Exchange