Our experienced team includes professionals with experience in project management, evaluation and data analysis, as well as creative production and cultural programming across education, arts, culture and heritage.
Stacey has over 22 years of experience, working across marketing, consultancy, bid writing & business development within commercial business before moving into the charitable and higher education sectors. She has worked from grassroots to Board room, from strategy and fundraising, to delivery.
Stacey is an expert in creative production, gentle facilitation and integrated, creative evaluation and impact strategy, design and framework development with many years of experience working in community development and engagement using arts, creativity and play to enable and empower people to identify, define and effect their own change on their own terms.
She specialises in working with Higher and Further Education clients as well as the Heritage and Cultural sectors.
Amongst others, she has worked with the National Trust, University of Bath Bath Spa University, Little Lost Robot, Cool Ventures, the Social Art Network & The Belonging Network.
Jenn is a creative industries consultant and researcher specialising in creative innovation ecosystems, strategic placemaking and inclusive growth.
She supported raising £1.5 million at creative edtech start-up Interactive Scientific and co-designed and delivered R&D accelerators for creative tech SME’s for the £30m MyWorld programme, with University of Bristol and Digital Catapult.
She delivers evidence-based research, impact evaluation and strategic programme development for UK and international public, academic and cultural partners.
Her work connects policy, creative technology research, place-based development and responsible innovation practice.
Clients include University of Bristol/MyWorld, Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre/Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy, Global Cultural Districts Network/University of the West of England, BFI/Bristol City Council and West of England Combined Authority/Watershed
Hazel has worked in the arts and cultural sector for over 25 years as an artist, workshop leader and creative producer. She led the Creative Learning department at Bath Festivals for over 12 years, producing and delivering arts projects with children and young people and the schools’ programming for a major Festival. She is an experienced bid writer, evaluator and project manager.
Her recent evaluation work includes building bespoke evaluation frameworks and matrices for the Access & Participation team at Bath Spa University and the National Trust’s Reconnecting the Rooms project at Bath Assembly Rooms. She is an advocate for Reflective Practice and cares about making evaluation an enjoyable, doable practice, integrated into everyday project delivery.
A data and analytics professional with a track record of converting complex data into measurable operational outcomes. His expertise spans the full data lifecycle from MIS management, system configuration, and data workflow optimisation to learner analytics, student lifecycle management, dashboard development, and KPI framework design with Higher Education. He brings hands-on experience in social value and programme impact analysis in Heritage, Culture and Education, alongside an approach to data governance and GDPR compliance.
Holding an MSc in Data Science & Analytics and an MBA in Project Management, Hewad uses data-driven approaches to enhance engagement, improve outcomes, strengthen operational efficiency, and support more intelligent, evidence-based organisations.
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Email: stacey@octopusimpact.org