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Overview
I am the Centre Manager at the Centre for Social Care and Artifical Intelligence Learning (SCALE).
SCALE aims to use artificial intelligence (AI) to build smarter, more agile and more effective social care services that deliver better outcomes for children, families and adults who needs support.
The Centre launched in April 2025 after recieving 1.8 million in funding from Health Care Research Wales to kickstart activity and to build critical mass in this new, exciting and fast moving inter-disciplinary research area.
Biography
Work History:
Centre Manager at Centre for Social Care and Artificial Intelligence Learning: May 25 to date
Psychology Assistant on DEPICT (Detailed Exploration of Pathology in Cortical Tissue) at Cardiff University Brain Imaging Centre (CUBRIC): March 25 to date
Senior Team Manager (secondment cover) – Disclosure Response Team, Student Health and Wellbeing Cardiff University: July 23 – March 25
Psychology Assistant on SWELL (Skills for Adolescent Wellbeing, Wolfson Centre for Young Peoples Mental Health: March – July 2023
Safeguarding Manager (maternity cover) at Cardiff City Community Football Foundation: September 2022 – March 2023
Safeguarding Manager at South Wales Fire and Rescue: January 2020 – Sept 2022
Youth Project Manager, Community Safety, South Wales Fire and Rescue, July 2005 – Jan 2020
Education Officer, South Wales Fire and Rescue: October 2003 – July 2005
Tennant Support, Gwalia Housing: 2002 – 2003
Youth Justice Worker, Rhondda Cynon Taff: 2000- 2002
Education:
Msc Forensic Psychology: merit
Bsc (Hons) Psychology: 2:1
Post Graduate Certificate in Management
Post Graduate Certficate in Counselling
NVQ 4 Youth & Community Work
Professional memberships
Member of British Psychological Society MBSs