Curriculum vitae
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Positions
2021 — present
Principal Consultant
Independent practice, Manchester, UK
Advising nonprofit and philanthropic organisations on technology strategy, data practice, and the governance of automated decisions.
2017 — 2021
Head of Data and Platform
Regional Community Foundation, Manchester, UK
Led the grants platform rebuild and the reporting practice that replaced it. Built and ran a team of six.
2012 — 2017
Senior Engineer
Northgate Systems, Leeds, UK
Enterprise integration and open-source infrastructure for public-sector clients.
Education
2008 — 2012
PhD, Social Informatics
University of Manchester
Thesis on coordination failure in distributed grantmaking networks.
2007 — 2008
MSc, Computer Science
University of Leeds
2004 — 2007
BA (Hons), Philosophy and Mathematics
University of York
Service and governance
2022 — present
Trustee
Northern Digital Inclusion Trust
Chair of the technology and data subcommittee.
2023 — present
Programme Committee
Workshop on Social and Affective Computing
2019 — present
Peer reviewer
Journal of Applied Social Infrastructure
Selected grants and awards
2023 — 2025
Resilience in Regional Funding Networks
Social Infrastructure Research Fund
Principal investigator. £148,000.
2023 — 2024
Assistive Scheduling Field Deployment
Applied Technology Trust
Co-investigator. £62,000.
Teaching
2019 — present
Data Practice for Nonprofit Organisations
University of Manchester, guest lecture series
Annual short course for the MSc in Public Policy.