| Staff |
 | Sally Thomas
Director
Sally has extensive experience in the social and community sector, working for national and regional government agencies, including the Housing Corporation, housing associations and Tyne and Wear Development Corporation. She has also acted as a non-executive Director of Northumberland Health Authority.
She has a national reputation in the field of community development and social regeneration and has spoken at many conferences and seminars. View CV |
 | Pete Duncan
Director
Pete has significant experience of community-based regeneration and has a national reputation in the field. He has acted as national tenant participation consultant to the Housing Corporation, following time at South Tyneside Council’s Housing Department and Banks of the Wear Community Housing Association, which he helped establish. He has been a Director of North Tyneside City Challenge and a Board member of Tynedale (now Milecastle) Housing, the North East’s first local housing company. He is the author of 10 publications on social housing and community empowerment. View CV |
 | Nicola Lewis
Project Manager
Nicola has been with SRC since January 2000. She fulfills both project manager and office manager roles. Nicola is an effective communicator across all levels and has extensive experience in developing and co-ordinating methodologies for evaluation projects, research studies and community consultation programmes involving stakeholder interviews, resident walkabouts, neighbourhood workshops and focus groups, neighbourhood drop-ins and community planning events. She has also undertaken a variety of focus groups and sessions with rarely heard groups using participatory appraisal techniques. In addition to her project management role, she is responsible for the smooth running of all financial and administrative aspects of our business.
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 | Naomi Mackintosh
Project Officer
Naomi joined Social Regeneration Consultants (SRC) in July 2010. She has a BA in Geography from Durham University. During her degree, Naomi developed valuable knowledge about sustainable development and economic regeneration in the South West and the North East. Naomi is an effective communicator across all levels and experience of dealing with the general public and agencies. She has contributed to a range of community consultation, evaluation and research projects and has experience of facilitating focus groups and developing and using participatory appraisal techniques.
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| Associates |
| | Lisa Grabham, Eljay Research Lisa Grabham has worked as an SRC associate for many years. She has worked in local authority research for almost two decades, since graduating from Newcastle University in 1990. Building on her academic learning she has gained extensive practical experience of public consultation utilising a wide variety of techniques. She runs her own consultancy, undertaking qualitative and quantitative research studies for a number of local authorities and organisations throughout the country. Lisa handles all aspects of research design, execution and analysis for projects that include community appraisals, behavioural and participatory analysis, visitor and audience profiling, inventories and audits, evaluative research, demand and use research, community workshops, mystery customers and case studies. |
| | Chris Cox View CV |
| | Iain Kitt |
| | Alia Syed
Alia is a community development practitioner specialising in the voluntary and community sectors and has worked both at grass roots and at a strategic level as a senior manager within the sectors for more than 15 years. Alia has hands on experience of developing and managing projects including an Asian Women’s Training Centre and a Healthy Living Centre. More recently Alia was head of Community Operations in a Community Development Trust in London where she had responsibilities for the management of a team of Community Development Officers and the strategic direction of the team. Alia is based in the East Midlands. |
| | Ranjana Bell Ranjana is the director of specialist consultancy rba Equality and Diversity which she established in May 1998. She has 20 years of experience working on equality and diversity issues in both the public and the voluntary sectors. Previously she was a teacher for children with special needs and worked in Higher Education and in Local Government on equal opportunity policies and practice. She is currently a member of the Employment Tribunals in Newcastle and is a Commissioner for the Women's National Commission. She is also a trustee for The Angelou Centre and The Foundation for Good Governance. |
| | Sue Robson
Sue Robson is one of SRC’s Associates. She has extensive experience in and knowledge of community development, regeneration and youth work in voluntary and public sector contexts. Sue’s work has a focus on capacity building individuals, groups, organisations and partnerships. She has experience in research and devising research methodologies and is a good communicator and facilitator with the ability to present information in a range of different formats. She has specialised in developing action research to embed reflection and learning, developing networks to support skills and knowledge sharing and partnership development. Sue also has teaching, management, staff development skills and experience of supporting the development of BME communities. |
