Core Skills
I can
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Facilitate capacity building, organisational change and empowerment through stakeholder engagement, participatory planning and knowledge management.
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Design, implement and analyse social research, and communicate key findings to key stakeholders, including service users and decision-makers.
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Manage projects, and provide leadership in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating development interventions.
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Support and strengthen learning across a range of cultural, organisational and institutional contexts, through lecturing, training, coaching and mentoring
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Make use of video and photography to inspire change and bridge the communication gaps that slow the progress of development
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Analyse and explain how social identities, including gender, age, ethnicity and (dis)ability, shape inequality, poverty and development outcomes.
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Formulate and direct organisational policy and strategy, and support others in this work.
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Reconcile differences of interest to build understanding and agreement through mediation and informed discussion
Interests
During my career, a number areas of interest have emerged and remained with me.
These include:
• Social and participatory research
• Capacity building through advising, training, mentoring
• Facilitation of stakeholder participation
• Youth, age and life course analysis
• Gender analysis, planning and training
• Social identity and its links to poverty, exclusion and opportunity
• Governance, accountability and citizenship
• Sports and development
• Participatory video and photography
• Civil society, charity and volunteerism