ABOUT ME
Dedicated, fiercely loyal to my friends and people I work with, no-nonsense when it comes to work and a heap of nonsense when off work, I have somewhere characterised myself as...
...an observant communicator with a penchant for indignation. A scholar of human (mis-) behavior & the odd.
That statement still holds true. As a researcher, I look at - and analyse - human behaviour, and the human condition.
I am not always pleased by what I find, but I will be fair in my analysis and my description.
The 'odd', the new, the unknown, will always peak my interest - so I happen to stare sometimes. To look. To ask questions.
And I communicate about what I learn. In writing, in presentations, orally.
A lot of my work stems from a sense that advice to the aid & development community could be simpler,
clearer and stripped of the consultant-speak that too often masks shortcomings and uncertainties.
I am outspoken (to
a fault maybe) but I don't sell snake oil.
That is why I will not accept just any job - I need to be able to believe in it and it needs to fit with what I know I can
do well: (social) research and research-design and methodology development, monitoring or evaluating and communicating.
