strategy | data | capability building

research publications

REACT (Rapid Evaluation Areal Connection Tool): Data accessibility and interoperability (report) | contributor, 2024
REACT (Rapid Evaluation Areal Connection Tool): User needs and data availability recommendations (report) | co-author, 2023
How can smart data help unlock a green economy? (report) | co-author, 2022
Project NIMBUS, network innovation and meteorology to build for sustainability, discovery phase (report) | co-author, 2022
Open energy: modernising energy data access, phase 3 (report) | co-author, 2021
Beyond the curve: how can data help ensure that COVID economic recovery drives net-zero? (report) | contributing author and editor, 2020
Data journalism: Inside the global future (book) | chapter author, 2015
Beyond personalisation, essay in The power of 8, BBC R&D/AHRC (one-off research publication) | 2009

editor

The State of Democracy, co-editor, 2015 – 2016
UK General Election pop-up newsroom, Online News Association, editor and publisher, May 2010 (our team broke the story of voters still queuing outside polling stations after polls had closed)
Digital Britain Unconferences: website and final report, editor, April – June 2009
New Media Knowledge, editor, October 2006 – January 2007
NewStatesman.com and associated microsites, online editor and manager, 2003 – 2006
ak13.com, co-founder, assistant editor, 2003 – 2005

commissioning editor

What can open data do for you? (video), Open Data Institute, 2014
Open/shared/closed: the world of data (video), Open Data Institute, 2014
New Statesman New Media Awards supplement, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Video Gaming, New Statesman supplement, 2006
Smart Learning, New Statesman supplement, 2006
Upstarts Social Enterprise Awards, New Statesman supplements, 2004 – 2006
Joined-up Criminal Justice, New Statesman supplement, 2005
New Localism: A round table discussion, New Statesman supplement, 2004
Internet Security: A round table discussion, New Statesman supplement, 2003

visiting lectureships

Kingston University, Journalist in Residence, 2011 – 2013
Bournemouth University, Journalism MA, visiting lecturer, 2010 – 2014
School of Communication Arts, mentor in entrepreneurship, 2010 – 2015
University of East Anglia, Creative Entrepreneurship MA, visiting lecturer, 2010 – 2012
Ravensbourne, visiting lecturer, post and non-graduate short courses, 2009 – 2012
University of Westminster, Journalism and Media Studies BA, visiting lecturer, 2007 – 2008

other

Barefoot into cyber space by Becky Hogge (book) | part of the publishing team working with Becky to ‘self publish’ her book in 2011. More about the process here.
Data Sonification, curator, 2012 – 2016 | A site and corresponding Twitter feed, I set up to explore and showcase examples of sound being used to express the meaning of data.
Feet on the Overground, creator, 2011 | On wonders and stories of looking down whilst travelling on the newly opened Overground train line in London, and in exploring new ways (at the time) of online publishing.