Emma joined Collaborate in May 2022 and has progressed to Project Design and Engagement Manager.
She’s most interested in developing more relational public services and supporting organisations to build learning cultures. So far this has included; supporting projects in Devon to surface learning around their innovative person-centred service delivery for domestic abuse victims and supporting places across the UK to embed cycles of learning to action as part of the National Evaluation and Learning Partnership.
In addition to project work, Emma is also involved in our contracting and data protection processes, hence the dual title!
Emma graduated with an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science and before that she completed an interdisciplinary BSc at the University of Amsterdam.
In their own words:
Having spent a lot of my time at university critiquing the exclusionary ways in which most social interventions are designed, I graduated with the hopes of finding a place that advocated for tackling issues by listening to the voices of those most affected by them. I have definitely found this at Collaborate.
I’ve also come to find out more about the need to recognise the complex reality of human experience in order to deliver good public services. Unless we actively embrace this complexity, we’ll fail to support people to truly flourish… In other words, Human Learning Systems (or relational public services as you may know it) is now my guiding ethos – let’s get learning!