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Sabrina AllisonSabrina Allison is a Senior Consultant specialising in evaluations and strategic studies related to social inclusion and economic development. Along with general consultancy skills, Sabrina has been developing our increasing use of online surveys to reach wider groups in a more spontaneous and cost effective way.Sabrina has particularly focused on the role of ICT learning centres in social inclusion. She was heavily involved in evaluation work on the DfES's UK online centres programme including both large scale surveys and in-depth case studies, as well as related work for the Office of the e-envoy and smaller ICT projects in Scotland. Sabrina has also worked on several area-based social inclusion studies in Scotland, from evaluations of social inclusions partnerships and their specific projects to strategies for local areas to meet local people's needs and integrate with developing organisational strategies. Prior to joining Hall Aitken, Sabrina had worked as a consultant in economic development and inclusion for around 8 years. Tel: 0141 225 5514 Back to list Paul BuchananPaul is a director and heads our tourism and strategy practice. His background is in tourism and economic development and he maintains an interest in education and training. He has had substantial involvement in development planning at local and regional level and has expertise in European funding and tourism skills issues.Recent assignments have included several studies looking at the social and economic impacts of tourism developments. These include several reports on the regeneration impacts of casino development, contributing insights into the effect of new legislation on different locations in the UK. Paul has led an evaluation of the St Andrews World Class project, continuing an association that started in 2001 with an economic impact study and strategic planning exercise for the historic town. He has carried out extensive work in rural tourism development working with communities and local area partnerships to develop sustainable tourism plans. These include a revised tourism strategy for Dumfries and Galloway, a tourism framework for rural communities in the Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park and an economic impact study in the Cairngorms National Park, linked to a new tourism action plan. In an international context, he recently developed the Estonian Tourism Quality Programme for Enterprise Estonia, a cross border tourism strategy for Latvia and Estonia and in 2005 completed an assessment of the Falkland Islands tourism industry. Paul has over 15 years experience in public sector tourism and held senior posts in tourism organisations and local authorities. He holds an MBA as well as a Master’s degree in Tourism and an honours degree in Geography. Tel: 0141 225 5517 Back to list Moranne CampbellMoranne is a consultant. With Hall Aitken she has been actively involved in monitoring and supporting the Active England and Community Club Development Programme for Sport England. This has involved supporting organisations and clubs with practical processes. She has met with them and helped them to construct monitoring frameworks. She has advised on using tools developed by Hall Aitken to support the monitoring process. Moranne has organised training events and workshops to support these projects. Moranne brings a variety of experience. As part of her BA in Sports Management she was part of research studies into:
Tel: 0141 225 5504 Back to list Adam ClarkeAdam is an experienced sport and leisure professional from a leading leisure management consultancy. He has worked on a significant range of sport, recreation, leisure and cultural assignments. Clients have included local authorities, the Audit Commission, Regional Development Agencies, New Deal for Community Boards, National Governing Bodies of Sport, Sport England, and local sports clubs.Adam has experience in:
Tel: 0161 835 2011 Back to list Karen DysonKaren joined the company in January 2006. Immediately prior to this, she was Chief Officer at Rochdale and District Citizens Advice Bureau, where she was heavily involved in the Borough's Community Empowerment Network, representing the voluntary sector on Rochdale's Local Strategic Partnership. She carried out consultancy work for the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux, writing a guide to equalities legislation and good practice and carrying out an impact assessment of Citizens Advice services.Karen also worked at Oldham Council for five years, where she managed the Borough's Community Economic Development Agency and was a member of the SRB6 Co-ordination team. She worked with the scheme from its inception, developing its delivery plan, working with partner agencies to develop and implement projects, supporting the Board and setting up the scheme's community involvement infrastructure. Tel: 0161 835 2019 Back to list Denis DonoghueDenis is a Director with substantial expertise in local economic development, planning, regeneration, and social inclusion issues. He has also been involved in various area regeneration and multi-disciplinary studies including a number of projects looking at the future role of local service centres within the context of regeneration in deprived areas. Denis is a Chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute.He has recently led projects providing labour market information systems, mapping Digital Divide initiatives, and a range of tracking and forecasting studies. Before joining Hall Aitken, Denis worked as a Consultant specialising in regeneration and social inclusion projects and research. Prior to that he worked for a number of Local Authorities undertaking projects and research in the fields of business and industry, retailing and housing. Tel: 0141 225 5502 Back to list Florence EdmondA qualified information professional and native French speaker, Florence joined Hall Aitken as an Information Officer in April 1995. Her main responsibilities include the day to day contact with the information and support service clients, dealing with enquiries on all EU matters with a particular interest in the provision of advice on non-structural funds. She is involved in the European Team's projects, including training courses and seminars, EU audits, the writing of publications such as European Funding and Scotland or an intranet guide on external funding on behalf of Scottish Natural Heritage. She is also involved in marketing the information service which includes the organisation and participation in the Hall Aitken European Seminar series dealing with major EU issues such as enlargement, e-Europe or EU Governance.Before joining Hall Aitken, Florence worked at SE Dumfries and Galloway providing information and advice to small businesses and at the Scottish Council for Educational Technology specialising in education and IT information. Tel: 0141 225 5503 Back to list Paolo FazziPaolo is a Senior Consultant with a background in business change and strategy having worked with the global management consultancy firm Accenture before strengthening our strategy team.With Hall Aitken, he has managed a major research project into business start-ups and support services in County Durham. He has contributed to labour market analysis projects in the South of Scotland and has worked on an evaluation of an innovative arts led approach to regeneration in Hertfordshire. Prior to joining Hall Aitken, Paolo has evaluated the business case for the strategic reorganisation of NHS Child and Community health units in Suffolk and has analysed how the Rural Payment Agency's information technology system can assist British agriculture in reaching Common Agricultural Policy targets. He has helped to re-define the high-level business strategy for the National Nightline voluntary project run from UK universities and has worked in the United States as part of Accenture's Strategy and Business Architecture team. Paolo's academic background is in International Relations with a special interest in military strategy and multinational joint operations. Tel: 0141 225 5500 Back to list David GourlayA community regeneration specialist with 20 years experience of implementing projects and performance improvement. He covers a wide range of public sector interventions. He has managed multi-annual, national evaluations. He has worked for a full range of clients including the Scottish Government, Community Planning Partnerships, The Big Lottery Fund, Scottish Enterprise, national Government departments, local authorities and the voluntary sector. He has built local regeneration initiatives, established social enterprises and helped move policy into practice. An expert facilitator with extensive funding experience, David has Programme Management experience of European Structural Funds. He has advised on bid-writing, monitoring and claims.Tel: 0141 225 5511 Back to list Patricia HortonBA in Business Economics, Paisley UniversityMSc Operational Research, Strathclyde University Patricia is a senior consultant who specialises in collecting and analysing quantitative and labour market data. Patricia leads the Hall Aitken Analysis and Technical team made up of 4 full-time researchers. Patricia co-ordinates survey research and quantitative analysis within Hall Aitken. Patricia currently manages the day to day work for the Active England evaluation, a four-year project for Sport England. Patricia provides support and advice to Active England projects setting up monitoring and evaluation systems. She has also developed monitoring tools for projects and worked with external programmers to customise an online reporting tool. Patricia also managed the evaluation of the Lottery Funding website and help line. This included an online survey, stakeholder interviews and presenting the results to the Big Lottery Fund in London. Patricia has worked on projects related to labour market intelligence, economic development and social inclusion. Patricia led on sourcing data for the South of Scotland Labour Market Intelligence project. The outputs for this project included annual reports, quarterly updates, town profiles and bespoke primary research. She also led on the statistical analysis of a large-scale user survey for the evaluation of UK online centres. Tel: 0141 225 5510 Back to list Caroline HoyCaroline is a Principal Consultant with a background in health and migration, urban development and information collation tools, most notably questionnaires and innovative qualitative methods. She has a PhD in Geography from the University of Leeds where she examined migration and health in the People's Republic of China. Her work at the University of Dundee examined population, culture and health, and migration into urban areas of Scotland. She followed this with nearly five years at the University of Glasgow as the Senior Research Fellow on the Scottish Health, Housing and Regeneration Project (SHARP). This demanding project looked at the links between health, community, and regeneration in 60 sites across Scotland. She has also continued to research into social issues in China particularly regarding ethnic minorities and health.She currently manages our Way of Life support programme in Wales for the Big Lottery Fund. Caroline has undertaken work for a diverse group of agencies including UNDP and the FCO, and has run innovative workshops in different situations based as far apart as Glasgow and Shanghai. Tel: 0141 225 5512 Back to list Ute JohnstonUte is a Consultant specialising in tourism and funding, as well as monitoring and evaluation. She holds an MSc in information science and a degree in business studies and international marketing. Her extensive research experience includes research in the field of international tourism.Ute has worked on some major projects related to EU Structural Funds. These included a comparative study on co-financing and Structural Funds delivery across the EU and a series of stakeholder workshops across Scotland. She currently manages the ex-ante evaluation of the new Lowland and Upland Scotland ESF and ERDF programmes. Ute has also assisted clients with many successful European funding applications. Currently one of her major responsibilities is being the regional contact for the London region within the four-year evaluation of the Active England programme on behalf of Sport England. This involves giving monitoring and evaluation support to individual projects, building relationships and contributing in other ways to the successful evaluation of this national programme. Other current projects include a review of marketing activities to promote Edinburgh as a tourist destination and the evaluation of the Scottish Centre for Regeneration's Learning in Regeneration skills pack. Tel: 0141 225 5516 Back to list Kieran KearneyKieran is a consultant specialising in local economic development with a special interest in examining local labour market capacity, quality of life and social inclusion and qualitative research tools in evaluations. Kieran is an accomplished researcher and has considerable experience in utilising qualitative research tools and research best practice at local, national and international levels. He has experience in projects involving partnerships, community workshops, stakeholder consultations and has organised innovative consultation exercises.He is currently working on migration studies in the Western Isles and a review of the Glasgow Vocational Training Programme for Glasgow City Council. He has also recently completed work on a BNSF evaluation. Kieran is the regional contact as part of Hall Aitken evaluation of the Active England Programme funded by Sport England. Prior to joining Hall Aitken, Kieran conducted research on the effects of quality of life, image and publicity on economic development in North Lanarkshire as part of a Masters degree at Glasgow University and has conducted similar research in Ireland at University College Galway. He recently completed an article to be published by the World Youth Foundation on the digital divide in the UK. He also has in depth experience of working in the voluntary sector, both in Ireland and in Scotland. Tel: 0141 225 5506 Back to list Steven RossSteven is a consultant working with the Information Consultancy team.With experience and post-graduate qualifications in both web development and European law, Steven works on the creation and maintenance of websites and databases for internal use and for client projects, and also assists with giving advice on European legislation and funding programmes. Recent work includes labour market information websites for both Caithness and Sutherland and the southern areas of Scotland, a website to help Active England funded projects share infomation, and helping public bodies comply with European public procurement legislation. Prior to joining Hall Aitken, Steven worked for 6 years in the Euro Info Centre in Glasgow providing European information to the Scottish business community, and in the export department of a large private organisation ensuring compliance with both transportation and customs regulations around the world. Tel: 0141 225 5501 Back to list Tom SeneviratneTom has a track record in sport and leisure, and community development. Since graduating in sports development and coaching, he has worked for Chester City Council, the English Lacrosse Association and most recently a leading leisure management consultancy. He has experience of undertaking strategic planning documents such as governing body development plans and planning policy guidance 17 documents (PPG17), feasibility studies, for example a study into the feasibility of building a new public swimming pool in Bolton as well as working on a variety of funding applications.Tom is currently working on monitoring and evaluation of Active England projects and Community Club Development Programmes, as well as a feasibility study into new football and community facilities in Athersley. Tel: 0161 835 2029 Back to list Amy ShephardAmy is an experienced consultant and has worked on a wide range of consultancy projects. She first worked for Groundwork developing community engagement skills in the delivery of environmental projects. Amy then moved into consultancy and has developed a wide range of skills and techniques for the delivery of consultancy projects.Several the projects Amy has completed have included the physical aspects of regeneration including feasibility and workspace demand studies. In addition Amy has done feasibility studies and written business plans for developing new Groundwork Trusts. Amy has also worked on several evaluation projects including a three-year evaluation of the Access Centre programme run by EMDA in Leicester and Leicestershire. Amy has also worked on socio-economic impact assessments for private and public developments and developed a GIS tool for tracking the progress of physical regeneration projects. She is undertaking a Masters in Sustainable Development. Tel: 0161 835 2031 Back to list Katrina WatsonKatrina is a consultant specialising in data management. Katrina has advanced IT skills and knowledge of systems analysis giving her a strong grounding in information handling and management. Using various data platforms in many business environments, ranging from manufacturing to business services, she understands the nature of data in relation to the quality and value of the information it can produce. Her past database experience ranges from creating an employee training database tracking and monitoring progress, to administration and maintenance of a manufacturing process system.Prior to joining Hall Aitken, she held a range of positions co-ordinating and monitoring training programmes and administration systems. Tel: 0141 225 5515 Back to list Jeremy WyattJeremy is a Principal Consultant and Managing Director of Hall Aitken - providing strategic leadership to the Active England evaluation. He has worked in regeneration and skills development for over 20 years in both public and private sectors.Immediately before joining Hall Aitken, he was a member of the senior management team of a major Optical retailer. Prior to this Jeremy worked in management consultancy with large private sector companies (delivering training and performance improvement projects), with Public Sector organisations and with a number of local economic development projects, largely in Scotland. His earlier career included setting up and running one of the West of Scotland's first neighbourhood based economic development agencies, and developing early approaches to training for new and existing entrepreneurs. Over the last five years he has led a wide range of evaluation and strategy development projects, for example:
Jeremy is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CFCIPD), holds an MBA with distinction (Glasgow), a B.Sc.(Hons.) Biology (Salford), and is a Member of the Institution for Economic Development and Member of the Evaluation Society. Tel: 0141 225 5505 Back to list |