Tom Lawrence Email & Phone Number

Stafford

Offering research, analysis and consultancy services in local government finance and and local government policy more generally, including:• Helping local authorities explore opportunities to improve financial sustainability and service quality;• Analysis of expenditure patterns and identifying cost drivers;• The impact of potential changes to business rate retention - including needs assessments - and grant allocations; • Benchmarking/comparisons with other authorities and forecasting;• Exploring options for devolved governance and community involvement.Please see my website for further information: http://trlinsight.co.uk/

Marlton, New Jersey, United States

My affiliation with the Ronin Institute as a Research Scholar is mainly in relation to my academic research into fundamental mathematical physics.Under this affiliation, I have:- Had papers published in a physics journal, plus a preprint, on differential geometry, general relativity, compactification and Kaluza-Klein theories;- Given talks at international conferences;- Given an online talk to a research group at a university;- Regularly participated in discussions with my own research group at Ronin, including giving presentations;- Arranged an outside speaker to talk to the group.

Stafford, England, United Kingdom

Dog walking and home visits for pets in Stafford. Available through Pawshake or directly.

Stafford, England, United Kingdom

I've been playing bongos and other percussion since around 1998. I usually play at jam sessions, open mics and at friends' gigs. I've played pretty much every genre of music, including rock, blues, folk, jazz, funk and reggae. I would be interested in getting work in funk clubs or similar and also in session work - gigs and/or recording.

Freelance role. Available for interim positions, consultancy and bespoke in-house training sessions through APSE. Previously delivered regular training sessions: "Local government finance (a reality check for survival)".

Work has included:- carrying out Excel analysis in support of benchmarking reports (part of the Financial Intelligence Toolkit)- putting together monthly summaries of LG finance developments - a report on benchmarking various back office functions for a local authority joint venture

Freelance role. Outputs have included:• Policy briefings• "Policy in practice" briefings (case studies of best practice)• An Essential Guide: "How Services are Funded"• Training sessions: "Inside Local Government Funding: How it works and making the most of it"• Articles for C'llr magazine• Facilitating a discussion on devolution between senior officers and partners from across two countiesBriefings and articles have covered topics such as:• Maximising council revenues • Investments made by local authorities• Local Government Pension Fund reform• Business Rates reform• Local Government Finance Settlements• New Homes Bonus and Council Tax Freeze Grant• The Service Transformation Challenge Panel• The English Housing Survey*I would love to hear from any regular readers of my briefings and articles*

Stafford, England, United Kingdom

Meeting and greeting customers and walking them to the bowling lanes. Clearing tables, serving drinks, taking orders, sorting out problems and providing customer service.

Remote

London, United Kingdom

Senior Researcher on schools funding

Stafford

59½ Southwark Street, London Se1 0Al

• Team expert on concessionary fares, capital finance and formula grant.• Produced case studies on innovations in infrastructure investment, with launch event.• Carried out analysis on trends in capital and revenue funding and expenditure and worked up model on future expenditure needs and income, drawing on RO/RA/COR data, population and household projections, etc.• Collaborated with environment policy team on project analysing expenditure on waste and recycling services.• Drafted and contributed to responses to many government consultations, working to timetables for managerial and political approval.• Played active role in many meetings with government departments.• Contributed to many briefings for officers, councillors and parliamentarians.• Analysed complex areas of Local Government Finance and communicated results to officers, trade press and others, including as part of highly regarded team work on business rate retention.• Wrote reports and papers on flexibilities needed to boost capital investment.• Attended conferences and events on investing pension funds in infrastructure, local government bonds and other capital finance issues.• Organised and administered meetings of local government finance officers, giving presentations.

59½ Southwark Street, London Se1 0Al

Working in a small team to administer all of London Councils' committees and forums. My roles in this post were those listed under Democratic Services Officer below, plus I took on a task of improving and systematising the administration of Member allowances.

59½ Southwark Street, London Se1 0Al

Part of a team of two administering:- Leaders' Committee- Executive- Audit Committeeand coordinating the administration of London Councils' other committees and forums. My roles included:• preparing agendas, organising briefings for the Chairman and Chief Executive and preparing and publishing minutes;• liaising with the PAs of the Chairman and the Elected Officers of the Leaders Committee on diary management issues, for example around authorising action under the Urgency Procedure;• administering the dispatch service to Members;• maintaining an accurate record of Member attendance;• publishing meeting papers on London Councils website;• acting and responding to Member queries;• creating a corporate database of “stakeholders” and key external contacts, with codes to allow mail merges for the dispatch of papers for the various committees;• receiving, collating and processing nominations to the committees from the 32 London Boroughs and the City of London;• updating the team’s website and intranet pages;• writing briefings on member attendance, including equalities implications, to inform governance decisions.

Longest assignment was minuting monthly Board meetings of a Tenant Management Organisation from November 2005 to October 2007, plus one leaseholders’ meeting. Other assignments included data entry, delivering leaflets and working in a call centre.

Grosvenor Gardens House, 35/37 Grosvenor Gardens, London Sw1W 0Bs

Guiding on open-top bus tours and selling tickets

Civic Suite, Lewisham Town Hal,L Catford Road, Catford, London Se6 4Ru

I supported members of the opposition group on Lewisham Council in the performance of their duties as Councillors and assisted them in functioning as a party group. This involved administrative tasks, research work, work with the media, giving political advice and any other tasks as required.

Department Of Physics, Queen Mary, Mile End Road, London

Marked undergraduate physicists’ answers to weekly problems sheets and assisted with running “problems classes”. Also twice gave lectures when lecturer was away.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical And Mathematical Physics

Activities and Societies: Amnesty International, Rhythm Addicts PhD research on symmetry breaking in field theory. I researched.

Master Of Physics (M.Phys.), Theoretical And Mathematical Physics, 2.1

Activities and Societies: Science Fiction Society, Amnesty International, Physics Society, Liberal Democrats, Debating Society.