About

For National Governments, UN and EU Agencies & Private Sector Clients, I can

Past and Current Clients

I have worked for the International Organization for Migration (IoM/UN Migration), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Expertise France, UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and predecessor DfIDEuropean Union Asylum Support Office (EASO), Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) (a former US government aid agency), British Council, and International SOS (private humanitarian medical company). Previously I worked as a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) practitioner with Atkins Civil Engineers and Ben Cave Associates. I started my working life as a reporter for BBC Radio 3 and World Service, and a researcher at BBC Radio 4.

My work now spans a broad range of subjects. These include behavioural science, environmental psychology –human>environment relations, public health (mental health, environmental health), psychosocial factors, the social aspects of infectious diseases, cities, energy production and infrastructure, climate change resilience and adaptation, ethnicity, race, migration and multiculturalism, gender equality and social inclusion, prevention of violence against women and girls, disability, and social development. I am author of a book and various academic articles on these subjects.

Academic and Professional Qualifications

I am an Affiliate Research Fellow at the Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow. I completed a Post Doc at the World Resources Institute (Washington DC, USA). I have a DPhil (PhD) in Social and Cultural Anthropology with Sociology and Social Psychology from the University of Oxford, Masters of Public Health (MPH) University of New South Wales, Australia), a Masters in Visual Anthropology (University of Oxford), Masters in Anthropology of Europe and a BA Music and Media Studies (both University of Sussex). I am a candidate, MSc Psychology (Glasgow).

I have undertaken many CPD courses in behavioural science and behaviour change, and social determinants of health (UCL), Psychosocial Health of Migrants, Mental and Psychosocial Health in Emergencies and Displacement, and other UN courses (through IOM), human rights law (University of Edinburgh), health and social impact assessment (IAIA, University of Liverpool), renewable energy (Centre for Alternative Technologies) and others.

I am also a part-time musician and singer-songwriter, singing and playing the flute/piano in bands and duos from time-to-time. I sing and play Celtic folk as my heritage is Scottish, English, Irish and Welsh, among other things (Norwegian, Dutch, French and German), Nordic folk, jazz and bursts of Debussy. My work is outlined on the menus up above. If you’d like to get in touch with a view to commissioning consultancy services, please use the contact form here.