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Highly skilled writer across academia/creative environments | ex-Cambridge academic | experienced startup executive

Profile Summary

Startup executive with innovation, policy & communications portfolio in leading tech startup Dataswyft, following Chief of Staff role at SATAVIA (since acquired by a US global corporate) and 10+ years as an academic researcher & lecturer at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, focused on tech & policy research following PhD in political science at Cambridge/Harvard. Also a successful freelance writer (The Times, Guardian, Lancet, Science, etc) and novelist (Little,Brown; Galileo), with experience writing across many genres including reports, patents, technical specifications, academic papers, brochures, and many others.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Earth & Atmospheric Science
• ☆ Climate Science
• ☆ Environmental Science
• ☆ Environmental Management & Protection
• ☆ Environmental Policy
• ☆ African Studies
• ☆ Local Politics & Government
• ☆ Political Science
• ☆ Foreign Policy
• ☆ Political Theory
• ☆ Geopolitics
• ☆ Political Systems & Philosophies
• ☆ Public Policy Administration
• ☆ Economic Policy
• ☆ Development Economics
• ☆ Public Finance
• ☆ International Studies
• ☆ Social Theory
• ☆ Medical Sociology
• ☆ Medical History
• ☆ Ancient History
• ☆ History of Religions
• ☆ Medieval History
• ☆ Modern History
• ☆ English Literature
• ☆ European Literature
• ☆ Fiction
• ☆ Novels
• ☆ Book Reviews
• ☆ Music
• ☆ Musicology
• ☆ Music Composition
• ☆ Music History
• ☆ Russian History
• ☆ United States History
• ☆ British History
• ☆ European History
• ☆ Classical Music
• ☆ Political Sociology
• ☆ Nineteenth Century History
• ☆ Eighteenth Century History
• ☆ Twentieth Century History
• ☆ World War II
• ☆ Economic History
• ☆ History of Technology
• ☆ Victorian Literature
• ☆ Literary History
• ☆ British Literature
• ☆ Choral & Vocal Music
• ☆ Political Commentary
• ☆ Democracy
• ☆ Conservatism
• ☆ European Politics & Government
• ☆ United States Politics & Government
• ☆ Latin American Studies
• ☆ Critical Theory
• ☆ Medical Devices
• ☆ Medical Device Development
• ☆ Wearable Technology
• ☆ Endocrinology
• ☆ Diabetes
• ☆ Business Operations
• ☆ Business Strategy
• ☆ Small Business
• ☆ Entrepreneurship

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Product Development

Writing Medical Writing, Non-Medical Regulatory Writing, Technical Writing, Business & Legal Writing, Copywriting, Creative Writing

Research Market Research, User Research, Meta-Research, Feasibility Study, Technology Scouting, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Business Strategy Consulting, Go-to-Market Strategy Consulting, Operations Consulting

Product Development Product Evaluation, Concept Development

Work Experience

Senior Director of Policy and Innovation

Dataswyft

- Present

Bye-Fellow

University of Cambridge

March 2017 - Present

Chief of Staff

SATAVIA

November 2020 - September 2025

Senior Research Associate

University of Cambridge

February 2018 - September 2020

Research Associate

University of Cambridge

September 2009 - January 2018

Education

PhD (Geography/Politics)

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

October 2004 - June 2009

MSc Philosophy

University of Edinburgh

September 2002 - September 2003

MSc Political and Social Theory (Politics)

University of Edinburgh

September 2000 - June 2001

MA (Hons)

University of St Andrews

September 1996 - July 2000

Certifications

• Digital Marketing Strategy

  University of Oxford

  January 2025 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2024). On the fidelity of high-resolution numerical weather forecasts of contrail-favorable conditions . ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH.

(2023). Should the Prime Minister Sit in the House of Lords? . POLITICAL QUARTERLY.

(2020). A qualitative study of clinician attitudes towards closed-loop systems in mainstream diabetes care in England . DIABETIC MEDICINE.

(2020). Who Should Access Closed-Loop Technology? A Qualitative Study of Clinician Attitudes in England . DIABETES TECHNOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS.

(2019). Ambassadors of hope, research pioneers and agents of changeindividuals' expectations and experiences of taking part in a randomised trial of an innovative health technology: longitudinal qualitative study . TRIALS.

(2019). Who's European? Scotland and England Compared . POLITICAL QUARTERLY.

(2018). Access to diabetes technology: the role of clinician attitudes Care providers' attitudes can affect adoption of new technology. Conor Farrington reports . LANCET DIABETES & ENDOCRINOLOGY.

(2018). Adaptability of Closed Loop During Labor, Delivery, and Postpartum: A Secondary Analysis of Data from Two Randomized Crossover Trials in Type 1 Diabetes Pregnancy . DIABETES TECHNOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS.

(2018). CLOSED-LOOP FROM ONSET IN CHILDHOOD TYPE-1 DIABETES (CLOUD): A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL TO ASSESS THE EFFECT OF CLOSED-LOOP INSULIN DELIVERY ON RESIDUAL BETA-CELL FUNCTION. DIABETES TECHNOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS.

(2018). Community-based research: Engaging universities in technology-related knowledge exchanges . INFORMATION AND ORGANIZATION.

(2018). Data as Transformational: Constrained and Liberated Bodies in an 'Artificial Pancreas' Study . QUANTIFED LIVES AND VITAL DATA: EXPLORING HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGH PERSONAL MEDICAL DEVICES.

(2018). Day-and-Night Closed-Loop Insulin Delivery in a Broad Population of Pregnant Women With Type 1 Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial . DIABETES CARE.

(2018). Personal Medical Devices: People and Technology in the Context of Health . QUANTIFED LIVES AND VITAL DATA: EXPLORING HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGH PERSONAL MEDICAL DEVICES.

(2018). Psychosocial impacts of hybrid closed-loop systems in the management of diabetes: a review . DIABETIC MEDICINE.

(2018). Quantified Lives and Vital Data: Some Concluding Remarks . QUANTIFED LIVES AND VITAL DATA: EXPLORING HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGH PERSONAL MEDICAL DEVICES.

(2018). SAVING BRITAIN How we must change to prosper in Europe. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

(2017). "What vision?': experiences of Team members in a community service for adults with intellectual disabilities . JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY RESEARCH.

(2017). Doctors' engagements with patient experience surveys in primary and secondary care: a qualitative study . HEALTH EXPECTATIONS.

(2017). Experiences of closed-loop insulin delivery among pregnant women with Type 1 diabetes . DIABETIC MEDICINE.

(2017). Hacking diabetes: DIY artificial pancreas systems . LANCET DIABETES & ENDOCRINOLOGY.

(2016). Co-designing healthcare systems: between transformation and tokenism . JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE.

(2016). Crowdsourced Health How What You Do on the Internet Will Improve Medicine. SCIENCE.

(2016). Factors Affecting Recruitment of Participants for Studies of Diabetes Technology in Newly Diagnosed Youth with Type 1 Diabetes: A Qualitative Focus Group Study with Parents and Children . DIABETES TECHNOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS.

(2016). Liszted property . LANCET PSYCHIATRY.

(2016). Self-Tracking. SCIENCE.

(2016). Wearable technologies and stigma in diabetes: the role of medical aesthetics Fashion and design can help challenge diabetes stigma. Conor Farrington reports . LANCET DIABETES & ENDOCRINOLOGY.

(2015). FAXED The rise and fall of the fax machine. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

(2015). Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music . LANCET PSYCHIATRY.

(2015). Knowledge exchange and integrated services: experiences from an integrated community intellectual (learning) disability service for adults . JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY RESEARCH.

(2015). Lords Reform: Some Inconvenient Truths . POLITICAL QUARTERLY.

(2015). Music and madness: from <i>Kontakte</i> to The Cure . LANCET PSYCHIATRY.

(2015). POST-TV Piracy, cord-cutting, and the future of television. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

(2015). The artificial pancreas: challenges and opportunities . LANCET DIABETES & ENDOCRINOLOGY.

(2014). Blended e-learning and end of life care in nursing homes: a small-scale mixed-methods case study . BMC PALLIATIVE CARE.

(2014). mHealth and global mental health: still waiting for the mH<SUP>2</SUP> wedding? . GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH.

(2013). A Global Model for Effective Use and Evaluation of e-Learning in Health . TELEMEDICINE AND E-HEALTH.

(2012). Does It Matter If the House of Lords isn't Reformed? Perspectives from a Symposium at Trinity Hall, Cambridge . POLITICAL QUARTERLY.

(2012). New Political Spaces and Public Sphere 'Deliberativeness' in Ecuador, 1822-2011 . INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLITICS CULTURE AND SOCIETY.

(2011). Putting good governance into practice III: measuring intrinsic and instrumental empowerment in local government contexts . PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES.

(2011). Reconciling managers, doctors, and patients: the role of clear communication . JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE.

(2010). MUSICAL EXOTICISM Images and reflections. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

(2010). Putting good governance into practice II: critiquing and extending the Ibrahim Index of African governance . PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES.

(2009). Putting good governance into practice I: the Ibrahim Index of African Governance . PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES.

(2008). A LIFE IN MUSIC. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

(2008). Charles Valentin Alkan - His life and his music. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

(2008). EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED The power of music. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

(2008). John Cage. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

(2008). Rossini - His life and works, 2nd edition. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

(2008). Twentieth-century British authors and the rise of opera in Britain. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

(2006). Reflections on Liszt. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.

(2005). The Cambridge companion to Liszt. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT.