Begin it now

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. (Goethe)

Service Design

An anthropologist and development specialist, passionate about co-created projects, participatory approaches and user-led service design.

Consultancy

Fifteen years of experience as a consultant bringing ideation, business and strategic planning, and project management and implementation skills.

Entrepreneurship

Founder of an award-winning organisation. Committed to the development of innovative, disruptive solutions to large-scale problems facing people and planet.

Participle

Participle

I consulted across a range of Participle ventures, some at research stage, others more established, providing a wide range of services. Circle An innovative membership-based service open to anyone...

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© Soren / Global Children / PhotoVoice

Consultancy

Consultancy

I developed the consultancy arm of PhotoVoice and delivered projects for a wide range of international organisations including Amnesty International, BBC, Department for International Development, Christian Aid, Healthlink Worldwide,...

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© Hap Tien Long / Street Vision / PhotoVoice

Street Vision (Phase 1)

Street Vision (Phase 1)

In 1996 after working at a photography agency in London to save money, I travelled to Vietnam where my plan with a friend was to find some work and...

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Media for Social Change

Founder of the award-winning charity ‘PhotoVoice,’ which trains marginalised and at risk groups in photographic and digital communication skills so that they can tell their stories and advocate for change.

PhotoVoice

PhotoVoice

Motivated by the power of media and story-telling to shed light on social injustice and imbalance, I co-founded PhotoVoice in 1999 and spent 10 years growing the organisation. PhotoVoice runs digital workshops to empower marginalised groups and individuals to tell their stories and advocate for change.

My journey into PhotoVoice started when I began a project teaching photography to street and working children in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam as a student studying for my MSc in Social Anthropology and Development at Edinburgh University. I bought a handful of old Nikon FM2s and under the umbrella of a local organisation set about finding a groups of kids to work with.

Over a period of six months I met regularly with the young people and encouraged them to tell their story through their photographs. I was using photography as a tool to research their lives, from an ethnographic perspective but, quickly realised the children and their photographs could do so much more.

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