My professional commitments outside of my day-to-day work span three organisations, each reflecting a different dimension of the same underlying values: that technology should serve people, that openness and transparency produce better outcomes than enclosure, and that the structures we build either enable or limit human flourishing.
Civic Computing
Civic Computing is an Edinburgh-based digital consultancy with over twenty years of experience across the public and private sectors, working with organisations from local authorities and water companies to universities and consumer bodies. The company’s work spans discovery and user experience, web design and development, hosting and support, accessibility evaluations and testing, and design and creative services. Its flagship product, Cookie Control, is a world-leading consent management platform used on thousands of websites and the first of a developing suite of compliance products.
My work at Civic focuses on strategy, governance, and the longer-term direction of the company, working alongside the board and senior management team.
OpenUK
OpenUK is the UK’s unique industry body for open technology — spanning open source software, open hardware, open data, open standards, and AI openness. Working across three pillars of community, legal and policy, and learning, it serves as the convening point for the UK’s business, academic, and contributing communities in open technology. OpenUK is best known for its State of Open research and reporting programme, the annual State of Open Con conference, and OpenKidsCamp.
I serve as a Board Member, contributing to the governance and strategic direction of the organisation.
Society for Neurodiversity (S4Nd)
S4Nd is a member-led UK charity founded to support neurodivergent people and build community around lived experience, mutual support, and collective advocacy. Built on the principles of the Social Model of Disability, the organisation provides social, creative, and therapeutic programmes designed by and for its members, alongside broader advocacy work challenging the barriers that society creates for neurodivergent people.
I serve as a Trustee, contributing to the governance and strategic oversight of the organisation.