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CURRICULUM VITAE
• Family name: Hall
• First names: Sharon
• Date of birth 02-12-1964
• Nationality: British
• Civil status: Single
• Education:
Ref # Institution Degrees or Diplomas obtained
A Queens University,Belfast,N. Ireland 1989 Masters in Social Work
B Queens University,Belfast,N. Ireland 1989 Certificateof Qualification in Social Work
C University of Ulster, Jordanstown, N. Ireland1987 BSc Psychology (Hons)
• Language skills: (5 to 1 where 1 is themaximum)
Language Reading Speaking Writing
English Mother tongue
French 3 3 3
• Membership ofprofessional bodies:
• Other skills: (e.g. Computer literacy, etc.): Microsoft Office, Access, Excel, SPSS, Internet, Microsoft Project
Management
• Present position: International Senior consultanton Social Protection issues.
• Yearsof professionalexperience: 20
• Keyqualifications:
• Over 20 years’ of professional experience in the field of international consultancy, among which
extensive practice of and 15 years in performing the role of Team Leader on several EC, DFID and WB
projects
• Solid educational background with 15 years of international professional experience in projects the of
social welfare and social protection
• Strong experience of over 15 years in the field of evaluation in areas of civil society experience and
transparency initiatives as well as advocacy and good governance. This experience is combined with
strong analytical skills and experience with programme review methodologies (Statisti cal Analysis, Poverty
Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP), social survey analysis, training needs analysis, programme evaluation
cycle).
• Experience in development and implementation of strategic and action plans performance
management system in policy and strategies formation
• Advanced Degree in Social Work
• Strong working experience in providing Technical Assistance and support to governmental bodies
• Sound and practical experience of delivery capacity building services, research skills training, applied
research, training needs analysis, organizational analysisand development
• Proven ability to supervise and coordinate technical and administrative aspects within projects
includingoverseeingfinancial arrangements and staff recruitment
• Experience in development and implementation of strategic and action plans performance management
system in policy and strategies formation
• Effective networking and negotiation, excellent all- levels
• Experience in social protection in Ukrainein improvement social policies in Ukraine
• Knowledge of peculiarities of social policiesand systems of social assistance/protection
• Experience in cooperation with government bodies in the field of social policy including national level
documents development in social sphere
• Experience in carryingoutevaluations of civil society
• Specific experience :
Country Dates
Ukraine 1997-99 2000-2 2005, 2014
Moldova 1999-2007
FYROM 2008 – 2010, 2001 – 2002
Kyrgyzstan 2001-2002
CIS /Tajikistan 2005: 2015-2016
Kosovo 2005 – 2006, 2002 – 2004; 2002; 2000 – 2001
Palestine 2010
BIH, Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia 2002 – 2005; 2015-2016
Afghanistan 2011
Sierra Leone 2016
Yemen 2011-13
Mongolia 2016- 2018
• Professionalexperience selection record:
Dates Location
Institution /
Company
Position Description
01/11/16-
31-01/17
Mongolia UNICEF Child
Protection
Expert
Providing advice and support in implementing
the new Child Protection Law through training
and mentoring.
09/2016 -
02/2018
Mongolia Economic
Governance for
EquitableGrowth
Project
Short term
Social
Protection
expert
I am providing advice and support to
developing services for people experiencing
Domestic Violence and older people. This
involved developing quality care standards as
well as providing training in these areas. I also
undertook a review of the social contracting for
NGOs
1.05/2015-
25.05/2015
Sierra
Leone
Adam Smith
International
Amy.harrison@adam
simithinternational.c
om
DFID
Social
Protection
Lead
I provided advice and support to the Presidents
Delivery Team in the recovery Programme (10-
24months) in the areas of social assistance and
social protection to ensure that Ebola Survivors
and other vulnerable groups were being care
for with services and social assistance cash
transfers. This included developing monitoring
procedures. Advised on social policy reform
and institutional capacity building to improve
effectiveness and efficiency in social services.
Advised on legal issues to extend and reform
the existing social protection policy framework
to encompass all areas and prepare by-laws for
approval by parliament. Provided assistance to
the new social protection policy and legal
framework implementation in the context of
social protection reform. This also involved
review and coordination of NGOs.
01/09/201
5 –
01.03.16
BiH EPRD
K.Rudy@eprd.pl
EU
Team Leader Coordination tasks:
• coordination of the inputs of the team
of experts appointed for the Project
and ensuring good quality of
deliverables produced by other
members of the team of experts (key
and non-key)
• ensuring sound utilisation and
planning of the working days of the
team of experts under the Project and
the daily management of the Project
activities
• developing employment policies and
services for people with disabilities
and children in vulnerablefamilies
• technical involvement in all activities
of the Project
• elaboration and timely delivery of the
Project reporting
• Evaluation of current systems and
practices
• Evaluation of civil society providing
social services
• Evaluation of civil society grants
• Development of guidelines for civil
society grants
01/10/201
5-
01.05.2015
Tajikistan GFA
Joachim.
Grotka@gfa-
group.de
EU
Social Sector
Leader
Tasks included:
Developing a Comprehensive social service
delivery system with Central Government,
Local Authorities and NGOs providers is
operational nationwidewhich included the
development and pilotingservicespecifications
and standards for new categories of social
services( .g.: Community Based Rehabilitation,
Early Intervention, Residential Carefor people
with learningdisabilities.I also supported the
process of re-structuringof state residential
institutions with introduction of new forms and
methods of work based on a process of case-
management for child protection. I also
developed and implemented Professional
standards of the workforce in the social service
system which included grievanceand
complaints procedures.This also involved
restructuringof the social contractingto
increaseto 2-3 years.
Review of civil society grants
Development of guidelines for grants
01/06/201
5-
15/08/201
5
Northern
Ireland
BelfastTrust Social
Worker
I was partof the child and family team
providingsupportand adviceto all young
people in the area who had been in careor left
careage 16. This involved providingsupport
adviceand help to families who are vulnerable
and are livingin difficultcircumstances.
26/01/201
5-
14/02/210
5
Tajikistan KSC Macedonia
EU
Social
Protection
Expert
As a Social Protection Expert I carried out an
evaluation for the firstand fixed tranche of €
6m of the Human Development Support
Programme II (HDSPII) scheduled for
disbursement in October 2015.The purposeof
the review is to providethe European
Delegation to Tajikistan and opinion and
specific recommendations on the country’s
continuingeligibility to receive budget support.
The evaluation criteria included in the
FinancingAgreement of 2014 signed between
the Republic of Tajikistan and the European
Commission in October 2014. The general
conditions assessed for the fixed trancheand in
addition I evaluated a firstmid-term
assessmentof work progress and issues related
to the specific conditions agreed for the end of
2016 and 2017 governing the variabletranches
payments for the next two years which
included civil society and local governance.This
included an evaluation of the social assistance
cash programme as well as civil society grants
24/03/201
4 -
2/04/2014
Ukraine Coffey Sinead McGill
S.McGill@coffey.co
m
DFID
Social
Protection
Expert
This shortterm evaluation projectaimed to
gain a better understandingof the likely impact
of structural adjustments on different income
groups and the social protection arrangements
to includecivil society and local governance
that might be drawn upon to report back
directly to DFID to structuretheir input. This
shortproject focused on human rights and
social inclusion in relation to the burgeoning
crisiswithin Ukraineto protect the rights of
Ukrainiansespecially in Eastern Ukraine.This
also involved evaluation of civil society.
9/5/2011-
10/08/201
3
Yemen GOPA
Lala.Aghayeva@gop
a.de
EU
Team Leader The objective of the project was to improve the
quality of lifefor the poorest in Yemen society
by helpingdevelop and providea cash payment
system targeting the most poor as well as
helpingthose able to become more
economically active.This involves providing
supportadvice, coachingand mentoring as well
as developingand deliveringtrainingfor all
staff within the Social WelfareFund.This role
also involved providingreform, design,and/or
management of social assistanceand social
benefits systems as well as developingpolicies,
guidelines and strategies for the poorest and
most vulnerableincludingpeoplewith
disabilities to promote labour and social
inclusion.
• Advised on social policy reform and
institutional capacity building to improve
SWF’s effectiveness and efficiency in
decentralising social services. Advised on
legal issues to extend and reform the
existing social protection policy framework
to encompass all areas under the mandate of
the SWF and prepare by-laws for approval by
parliament. Provided assistance to the new
social protection policy and legal framework
implementation in the context of social
protection reform.
• Introduced institutional changes to further
promote and extend the social services
decentralisation process within the SWF.
Provided technical support in the
institutional development and social services
decentralisation;
• Conducted Training Needs Assessment
(TNA), on-the-job trainings, workshops and
capacity development for the SWF’s staff.
Provided assistance to the SWF with the
organisation of training courses and
workshops at all levels (central,
governorate/branch and district) in the
context of social protection reform and
institutional development
• Child protection manuals
• Development and implementation of
grievanceand complaints process
• Development of review of civil society
• Development of 5 year policy strategy
14/08/201
1-
14/11/201
3
Afghanista
n
IBF
sondji@ibf.be
EU
Social
Protection
Expert
Evaluation of the Identification of the needs
and opportunities for future action:Takinginto
consideration theresults of the evaluation for
each sub sector of Social Protection in
Afghanistan,I was involved in drawingup
recommendations for the update of the EU
Social Protection budget fundingpolicy as well
as identify new activities to be funded in the
next framework. This involved a review of civil
society.
3/2011- 05
2011
Home
based
Icon Institute
inga.korte@icon-
institute.de
UNICeF
Team Leader The objective of the project is to review and
improve statistical information and analysisin
TransMonEE managed by UNICEF and to
scrutinizeand identify those indicators that
providefurther disaggregation.This introduced
a more systematic approach to providinggood
quality data which is pertinent to the region
and provides an Equity focus on those who are
in most need and are socially excluded in
CIE/CEE.
01-2008-
01-2010
FYROM Donnelly Hall Ltd
World Bank FYROM
paul@donnellyhall.co
m
Expert in
social
services
Expert for decentralisation and
deinstitutionalisation for the Ministry of Labour
and Social Policy.The overridingobjectiveof
this consultancy is to provideadviceand
assistanceto the Ministry of Labour and Social
Policy (MLSP) to review and strengthen the
national management and co-ordination
capacity of the MLSP and Social Welfare
Centres (SWCs) to decentralisation and
deinstitutionalisation.I was responsiblefor
targeting and developingsustainability for
developing the maintenance of community
based social services aswell as the
development of standards and criteria for
social workers and licensed social services
providers as well as reform of social assistance
system to improve /standardisein services.
Restructuringinstitutions for children and
developing principles for child protection.This
also included an evaluation of social services to
includecivil society and local governance.
02- 08/
2010
Palestine Jeremy. West HTSPE
Jeremy.West@HTSP
E.com
EU
Team Leader Advise on policy and management of a
Technical Assistanceprojectaimed at the
organisational reformand capacity buildingfor
the Ministry of Social Affairs,by developinga
unified social safety net and upgradingsocial
protection legislation and developingMoSA’s
organisational structureand workingmethods
to strengthen Human Resources Development
and improve staff performance, providing
specific supportto developing the HR
Department. Trainingneeds analysisand
trainingprogramme as well developing
business plansfor all departments. This
involved on the job support to social workers
through standardizingwork protocols and
developing monitoringsystems.
• Led the Technical Assistance (TA) project
aimed at the organisational reform of the
social protection system and institutional
development of the Ministry of Social Affairs
(MoSA); by developing a unified social safety
net and upgrading social protection
legislation for a more effective decentralised
social service delivery system covering all
poor and vulnerablesegments;
• Leadership and management of a Technical
Assistance project aimed at the
organisational reform and capacity building
for the Ministry of Social Affairs, this also
involved providing strategies for
decentralization. Undertaken TNA and
subsequent training
• Development of social policies
• Provided technical support to improve the
capacity of the Ministry to carry out its
mandate regarding social protection,
including modernisation/restructuration of
its administration;
• Provided technical advice in formulating
strategies to support the process of social
services decentralization and restructuring
• Development and implementation of
grievance and complaints procedures and
guidelines for civil society
12-01/
06-07
Moldova NICO
Graeme McCammon
g.mccammon@nico.
org.uk
DFID
Team Leader Improving Agricultural and Social Statistics.
Providing overall management for Family
Budget Survey and Labour Force Survey. Also
responsible for providing a dissemination
strategy, as well as providing better quality
and more robust statistics for the Ministries
of Agriculture, Social and Labour. This project
provided a training needs analysis, training for
staff and elaboration of training programmes.
This also involved utilising labour statistics
and proving support to the Ministry of
Labour. Training of interviewers and field
supervisors. This also involved restructuring
institutions. Evaluation of social services to
includecivil society.
05-05/
12-05
Ukraine British Council
EU
Team Leader • Team Leader of Regional Social Services in
Rivne and Volyn. The overall goal for this
project was to improve the effectiveness
and cost efficiency of Social Services in
Ukraine, providing Technical Assistance and
increasing the capacity of the Ministry of
Labour and Social Services and its regional
departments to facilitate the effective
implementation of the provisions of the Law
on Social Services. Developing and testing
strategic planning innovative models to
reform social service provision for
vulnerablegroups.
• Included developing innovative ways of
developing and conducting a training needs
analysis, preparing a training manual and
delivery of training to all social work staff as
well as developing guidelines and standards
for elderly, people with learning disabilities
and people with mental health problems.
This project involved training social workers
to include working with people with
disabilities and developing university
qualifications.
• Developed innovative models to reform the
social services delivery system and support
the decentralisation process of services for
child protection; Developed guidelines and
standards to facilitate the decentralisation
process.
• Contributed to the social policy
• Developed and implemented social work
standards which involved grievance and
complaints procedures.
• Developed child protection guidelines
• Development and implementation of
restructuringof institutions for children
• Evaluation of social services to include civil
society
• Development of guidelines for civil grants
07-05/07-
06
Kosovo Paul Donnelly
Paul@donnellyhall.c
om
UNDP Kosovo
Evaluation
Expert
Expert for End of project review evaluation of
three year UNDP funded programme
designed to prepare the Kosovo Police Service
for local administration and control. This
review was concerned with internal and
external oversight issues and internal affairs
mechanisms includingbudgetary issues.
06-03/
05-04
Moldova Donnelly Hall Ltd
Costel Ceocea
Moldova SIF
World Bank
Social
Impact
expert
Impact Evaluation Of Social Investment Fund
project involved a review of the Moldova
Social Investment Fund and making
recommendations for future programmes.
Elaboration and development of several
major surveys of beneficiaries of 2000
participants and counterfactual communities
of social services to include civil society and
local governances as well as individual and
focus group interviews, complex data analysis
and preparation of reports and contributing
to civil society to include all levels of society.
This included a review of civil society.
Organisinga study tour to Northern Ireland.
01-02/
05-04
Kosovo Donnelly Hall Ltd Senior
Expert
Technical Assistance for the Review and
Update of Applicable Social Laws, undertaking
World Bank Kosovo a review of current social welfare legislation
to include children and people with
disabilities in the context of best practice and
human rights conventions, preparation of
new draft legislation and regulations and
advising government on the passage of the
legislation through the Assembly which
involved strategic planning and policy
development. This involved developing
grievanceand complaints procedures.
This was a major two year process involving a
highly participative approach to the
preparation of new laws and regulations. It
entailed the complete revision of all current
European social welfare legislation and its
replacement with new statutes especially in
the area of child protection and people with
disabilities. This also included an evaluation of
social services to include civil society and local
governance.
01-02/
01-04
Moldova HTSPE
Jeremy West
Training
Expert
Technical Assistance to the Ministry of Labour
and Social Protection: Social Capacity Project.
Provision of training and capacity building
activities to introduce a single social
assistance form, to help target the most
disadvantaged groups and socially excluded.
This helped to develop the social assistance
programme and included an evaluation of
social services and civil society as well as local
governances.
09-02/
07-05
Croatia,
BiH, Serbia,
Montenegr
o
Donnelly Hall Ltd
DFID
Senior Expert Field Management Consultancy: Balkans
Conflict Prevention Fund. Supported team
leader for the UK funded Safety, Security and
Access to Justice Programme in the Balkans.
Tasks: Oversight on behalf of DFID of an
extensive Technical Assistance programme,
including courts, prisons, police and
prosecutors; Contributing to the development
of project ToR and designing logframes;
Involvement in the approval of project
technical proposals and budgets, consultants’
recruitment; Monitoring 13 justice sector
projects throughout the Balkans and included
an evaluation of social services and civil
society as well as local governances.;
Conducting Programme reviews of the above
projects; Liaising with international donors and
British Government Ministers ; Liaising with
counterpart ministries, Interim Administration
Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), OHR Office of the
High Representative in BiH, OSCE Organization
for Security and Co-operation in Europe;
Advising DFID on Safety Security and Access to
Justiceissues in the Region .
05-07/02 Kosovo Donnelly Hall Ltd
DFID
Social
Protection
Expert
Social Protection Design of Certified Social
Work Training and Continuous Professional
Development Expert. Advisor undertaking a
scoping study for the provision of a social work
course in Kosovo, commissioned by DFID.
Commissioned to review the current state of
professional development and make early
recommendations on the organisation and
regulatory framework that would be
appropriate for the development of social care
services. I developed the curriculum design
for the bachelor level degree especially in the
area of child protection and people with
disabilities.
09-99/
01-01
Moldova NICO
DFID
Research
and
Statistical
Expert
Statistics Expert providing training in research
skills, interviewing skills, data collection and
analysis for staff within the Bureau of National
Statistics. Provision of staff training in
identifying national health and social
indicators to help develop social policy.
11-01/
01-02
Kyrgyzstan NICO
EU
Statistics
Expert
Kyrgyzstan Health Statistics. Statistician
involved in project to advise the National
Statistics Office and the Medical Information
Centre of the Ministry of Health in taking
forward the implementation and development
of the international classification of disease
and the development of health related
statistics and indicators. This involved
reviewing how the National Statistics Office
was recording statistics and developing a
system to re- classify these statistics so that
they were adjusted to the EU Standards. This
led to massive changes within the NSO
changing how they collect and analyse the
data.
01-99/
09-02
Ukraine NICO
(see above)
DFID
Social
Assistance
Expert
Enhancing the Capacity for Social Assistance
Project. Expert adviser aimed at supporting the
capacity building of social assistance agencies in
Ukraine. Building on the work of a previous
TACIS project this project demonstrated how
targeting of social benefits to the most needy
can be improved through building the capacity
of delivery agencies at central, regional and
local government levels.
12-00/
11-01
Kosovo Donnelly Hall Ltd
DFID
Social
Protection
Expert
United Nations Interim Administration in
Kosovo Capacity Building Project. Expert
adviser on a UK Government funded project
aimed at supporting the capacity building of
social protection and social assistance
agencies in Kosovo as well as developing
guidelines and standards for social workers in
the area of child protection.
04-06/01 Kosovo Donnelly Hall Ltd
CARE
Social
Protection
Expert
Development & Introduction of Child
Protection Procedures & Manual for UNICEF.
Senior Expert for project undertaking
preparation of Child Abuse Manual and Child
Care Procedures for UNICEF in Kosovo. This
Manual was used within all the Balkan
Countries.
1-12/2001 Belfast Donnelly Hall Ltd
DHSS
Evaluation
Expert
Evaluation of Aftercare Services for Young
People Leaving Care. This was an evaluation
of the Aftercare services for teenagers leave
care. Review of standards in Northern Ireland
Social care and health agencies. All statutory
social service and health agencies in Northern
Ireland were targeted and their systems of
how they manage their staff and adhere to
national standards were reviewed and
monitored for the HRD and social policy
01-00/
01-01
Ukraine Donnelly Hall Ltd
DFID
Senior Expert Local and Regional Government Institutional
Reform Support Project. Expert Advisor to a
Technical Assistance project involved with
restructuring and developing the institutional
interface between Central Regional and Local
Government. Tasks: design and support of a
demonstration sub-project focused on the
monitoring of health and social needs in the
city of Lviv; evaluation of the impact of
services and advice on a more efficiently
targeting system for policy development,
especially in the area of child protection and
included an evaluation of social services and
civil society as well as local governances.
01-00/
01-01
Belfast Donnelly Hall Ltd
DHSS
Team Leader Database Construction and Critique of Social
Research. Gathering all social work research
throughout Northern Ireland and providing a
critique of each study. This database was then
housed in the National Library to be used by
social and health careworkers.
06-12/
2000
Belfast
Donnelly Hall Ltd
DHSS
Evaluation
Expert
Evaluation of child Protection Inter-Agency
Protocols. Evaluation of operational protocols
between police, social service and medical
agencies; presentation of recommendations
for service improvement for social policy
development; analysis of documentary
records, group discussions and individual
interviews with professionals implementing
the protocols. Development of standards and
guidelines
2002
Belfast
Dept of Health and
Social Services
Donnelly Hall Ltd
Expert
Adviser
Inspections of NGOs receivinggovernment
grant aid:Inspectorate
Several inspections of NGOs that were in
receipt of central government grants to provide
specialistservices e.g. bereavement
counselling,servicesto people with brain
injuries etc.These were standard SSI
inspections focusingon professional standards
and value for money issues.
2001
Belfast
Dept of Health and
Social Services
Donnelly Hall Ltd
Expert
Adviser
Review of organisational standards in Northern
Ireland social careagencies
By means of interviews with senior personnel
and questionnaires returned by all statutory
social serviceagencies in Northern Ireland
mapped out the extent to which these agencies
participated in formal organisational standards
schemes; Investors in People, Charter Awards,
BSI9000 etc
2001
Belfast
Dept of Health and
Social Services
Donnelly Hall Ltd
Expert
Adviser
Review of professional auditpractices in
Northern Ireland social careagencies and
provision As well as interviewingpersonnel in
social services agencies,we undertook a postal
survey of 2,500 social servicepersonnel in
Northern Ireland.The resultingreport lead to
the promotion of professional auditas a key
element in the development quality standards
in social careservices.
2000
Belfast
Dept of Health and
Social Services
Donnelly Hall Ltd
Expert
Adviser
Preparation of statutory regulations for
guardians ad Litem in Northern Ireland
Commissioned to prepare draft statutory
regulations and formal guidancefor guardians
ad Litem representing children’s interests in
court proceedings
09-97/
12-99
Ukraine Donnelly Hall Ltd
(see above)
Social
Protection
Expert
Full time
EU TACIS Social AssistanceTA Project. Expert
responsiblefor:the development and support
of trainingstrategies to enablethe
implementation of new social protection
legislation ;establishmentof trainingtask
forces in the Ministry of Labour and Social
Policy;development of the trainer programmes
and oversight of the delivery of trainingto 500
staff throughout Ukraine; establishmentof a
national trainingcentrefor staff working in
social protection/social assistanceatcentral
and local government levels.I also developed
on-the-job supportto improve/standardize
their work protocols and monitoring
01/1997–
09/2000
England
and
Scotland
Donnelly Hall Ltd
Paul Donnelly
paul@donnellyhall.c
om
Expert
Trainer
Training on Risk Management. This included
training social workers and managers on child
protection and risk management. Developed
and delivered training courses to a number of
social work agencies throughout England and
Various councils in
England and
Scotland
Scotland.
01-98/
01-99
Australia Donnelly Hall Ltd Senior Expert Review of Social Work Education in Australia.
Development of regulatory framework for
social work education and training in Australia
to develop their strategic planning:
commissioned by the Commonwealth
Government of Australia and the Australian
Association of Social Workers. This involved
taking statements from all universities with all
state and territories within Australia with
cross comparison to social work courses in
Europe.
01-2009-02
2009, 01
2012- 04
2102
01/205
Northern
Ireland
Randstad Agency Social worker
Full time
Duty Social worker for team that provide
supportto children and families.This involved :
Interviewing and counsellingindividuals,
families,and groups,Assessingneeds and
developing responseplans,Referringclients to
professional or community services,
Coordinatingresponses between civic,
religious,governmental, and other
organizations.
09-94/
05-97
London
England
Prof T. Craig
Guys and St Thomas
Hospital London
thomas.craig@iop.kc
l.ac.uk
Research
Fellow
Full time
Responsible for major research project on
Child and Family Health examining how
health beliefs are transferred between
mothers and children with disabilities as well
as parents who have mental health issues.
Training researchers, collate information
using SPSS and qualitative methods, analysis
and present results atconferences.
09-94/
06-98 Kingston
England
Hilary Thompsett
h.tompsett@sgul.kin
gston.ac.uk
Lecturer
Full time
Developing and delivering of training related
to child protection and child development
and families at Masters Level. Writing and
developing curriculum for social work
students at Masters Level. This involved
preparing students for placements and
monitoringtheir progress.
01-92/
08- 94
Dundee
Scotland
Peter
Willattsp.willatts@d
undee.ac.uk
Psychologist
Full time
Responsible for day to day management of
child development project. Carried out the
cognitive tests on 200 children. Other duties
included data input and analysis and
presentation of the results at academic
conferences. I was also responsible for
providing counselling to those women who
were identified with vulnerablechildren.
01-91/
01- 92
St Andrews
University
Scotland
Prof C Cullen
mailto:Chris.Cullen@
northstaffs.nhs.uk
Psychologist
Full time
Responsible for the training needs analysis of
all staff working with people with profound
disabilities throughout Scotland.
Development of a training schedule in
relation to the results from this research .I
also provided support and counselling for
people with profound disabilities as well as
their families.
09-89/
01-91
Dundee
Scotland
Prof N
Emlern.emler@surre
y.ac.uk
Research
Psychologist
Full time
Responsible for day to day management for
young persons’ lifestyle project and young
peoples’ perceptions of AIDS and safer sex.
This involved collection of data, analysis and
report writing and presentation at academic
conferences. This project focused on 5000
young people. Responsible for psychology
tutorial programme for undergraduate
students.

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cv sharon hall_Dec_16

  • 1. CURRICULUM VITAE • Family name: Hall • First names: Sharon • Date of birth 02-12-1964 • Nationality: British • Civil status: Single • Education: Ref # Institution Degrees or Diplomas obtained A Queens University,Belfast,N. Ireland 1989 Masters in Social Work B Queens University,Belfast,N. Ireland 1989 Certificateof Qualification in Social Work C University of Ulster, Jordanstown, N. Ireland1987 BSc Psychology (Hons) • Language skills: (5 to 1 where 1 is themaximum) Language Reading Speaking Writing English Mother tongue French 3 3 3 • Membership ofprofessional bodies: • Other skills: (e.g. Computer literacy, etc.): Microsoft Office, Access, Excel, SPSS, Internet, Microsoft Project Management • Present position: International Senior consultanton Social Protection issues. • Yearsof professionalexperience: 20 • Keyqualifications: • Over 20 years’ of professional experience in the field of international consultancy, among which extensive practice of and 15 years in performing the role of Team Leader on several EC, DFID and WB projects • Solid educational background with 15 years of international professional experience in projects the of social welfare and social protection • Strong experience of over 15 years in the field of evaluation in areas of civil society experience and transparency initiatives as well as advocacy and good governance. This experience is combined with strong analytical skills and experience with programme review methodologies (Statisti cal Analysis, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP), social survey analysis, training needs analysis, programme evaluation cycle). • Experience in development and implementation of strategic and action plans performance management system in policy and strategies formation • Advanced Degree in Social Work • Strong working experience in providing Technical Assistance and support to governmental bodies • Sound and practical experience of delivery capacity building services, research skills training, applied research, training needs analysis, organizational analysisand development • Proven ability to supervise and coordinate technical and administrative aspects within projects includingoverseeingfinancial arrangements and staff recruitment • Experience in development and implementation of strategic and action plans performance management system in policy and strategies formation • Effective networking and negotiation, excellent all- levels • Experience in social protection in Ukrainein improvement social policies in Ukraine • Knowledge of peculiarities of social policiesand systems of social assistance/protection • Experience in cooperation with government bodies in the field of social policy including national level documents development in social sphere • Experience in carryingoutevaluations of civil society • Specific experience :
  • 2. Country Dates Ukraine 1997-99 2000-2 2005, 2014 Moldova 1999-2007 FYROM 2008 – 2010, 2001 – 2002 Kyrgyzstan 2001-2002 CIS /Tajikistan 2005: 2015-2016 Kosovo 2005 – 2006, 2002 – 2004; 2002; 2000 – 2001 Palestine 2010 BIH, Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia 2002 – 2005; 2015-2016 Afghanistan 2011 Sierra Leone 2016 Yemen 2011-13 Mongolia 2016- 2018 • Professionalexperience selection record: Dates Location Institution / Company Position Description 01/11/16- 31-01/17 Mongolia UNICEF Child Protection Expert Providing advice and support in implementing the new Child Protection Law through training and mentoring. 09/2016 - 02/2018 Mongolia Economic Governance for EquitableGrowth Project Short term Social Protection expert I am providing advice and support to developing services for people experiencing Domestic Violence and older people. This involved developing quality care standards as well as providing training in these areas. I also undertook a review of the social contracting for NGOs 1.05/2015- 25.05/2015 Sierra Leone Adam Smith International Amy.harrison@adam simithinternational.c om DFID Social Protection Lead I provided advice and support to the Presidents Delivery Team in the recovery Programme (10- 24months) in the areas of social assistance and social protection to ensure that Ebola Survivors and other vulnerable groups were being care for with services and social assistance cash transfers. This included developing monitoring procedures. Advised on social policy reform and institutional capacity building to improve effectiveness and efficiency in social services. Advised on legal issues to extend and reform the existing social protection policy framework to encompass all areas and prepare by-laws for approval by parliament. Provided assistance to the new social protection policy and legal framework implementation in the context of social protection reform. This also involved review and coordination of NGOs. 01/09/201 5 – 01.03.16 BiH EPRD K.Rudy@eprd.pl EU Team Leader Coordination tasks: • coordination of the inputs of the team of experts appointed for the Project and ensuring good quality of
  • 3. deliverables produced by other members of the team of experts (key and non-key) • ensuring sound utilisation and planning of the working days of the team of experts under the Project and the daily management of the Project activities • developing employment policies and services for people with disabilities and children in vulnerablefamilies • technical involvement in all activities of the Project • elaboration and timely delivery of the Project reporting • Evaluation of current systems and practices • Evaluation of civil society providing social services • Evaluation of civil society grants • Development of guidelines for civil society grants 01/10/201 5- 01.05.2015 Tajikistan GFA Joachim. Grotka@gfa- group.de EU Social Sector Leader Tasks included: Developing a Comprehensive social service delivery system with Central Government, Local Authorities and NGOs providers is operational nationwidewhich included the development and pilotingservicespecifications and standards for new categories of social services( .g.: Community Based Rehabilitation, Early Intervention, Residential Carefor people with learningdisabilities.I also supported the process of re-structuringof state residential institutions with introduction of new forms and methods of work based on a process of case- management for child protection. I also developed and implemented Professional standards of the workforce in the social service system which included grievanceand complaints procedures.This also involved restructuringof the social contractingto increaseto 2-3 years. Review of civil society grants Development of guidelines for grants 01/06/201 5- 15/08/201 5 Northern Ireland BelfastTrust Social Worker I was partof the child and family team providingsupportand adviceto all young people in the area who had been in careor left careage 16. This involved providingsupport adviceand help to families who are vulnerable and are livingin difficultcircumstances.
  • 4. 26/01/201 5- 14/02/210 5 Tajikistan KSC Macedonia EU Social Protection Expert As a Social Protection Expert I carried out an evaluation for the firstand fixed tranche of € 6m of the Human Development Support Programme II (HDSPII) scheduled for disbursement in October 2015.The purposeof the review is to providethe European Delegation to Tajikistan and opinion and specific recommendations on the country’s continuingeligibility to receive budget support. The evaluation criteria included in the FinancingAgreement of 2014 signed between the Republic of Tajikistan and the European Commission in October 2014. The general conditions assessed for the fixed trancheand in addition I evaluated a firstmid-term assessmentof work progress and issues related to the specific conditions agreed for the end of 2016 and 2017 governing the variabletranches payments for the next two years which included civil society and local governance.This included an evaluation of the social assistance cash programme as well as civil society grants 24/03/201 4 - 2/04/2014 Ukraine Coffey Sinead McGill S.McGill@coffey.co m DFID Social Protection Expert This shortterm evaluation projectaimed to gain a better understandingof the likely impact of structural adjustments on different income groups and the social protection arrangements to includecivil society and local governance that might be drawn upon to report back directly to DFID to structuretheir input. This shortproject focused on human rights and social inclusion in relation to the burgeoning crisiswithin Ukraineto protect the rights of Ukrainiansespecially in Eastern Ukraine.This also involved evaluation of civil society. 9/5/2011- 10/08/201 3 Yemen GOPA Lala.Aghayeva@gop a.de EU Team Leader The objective of the project was to improve the quality of lifefor the poorest in Yemen society by helpingdevelop and providea cash payment system targeting the most poor as well as helpingthose able to become more economically active.This involves providing supportadvice, coachingand mentoring as well as developingand deliveringtrainingfor all staff within the Social WelfareFund.This role also involved providingreform, design,and/or management of social assistanceand social benefits systems as well as developingpolicies, guidelines and strategies for the poorest and most vulnerableincludingpeoplewith disabilities to promote labour and social inclusion. • Advised on social policy reform and institutional capacity building to improve
  • 5. SWF’s effectiveness and efficiency in decentralising social services. Advised on legal issues to extend and reform the existing social protection policy framework to encompass all areas under the mandate of the SWF and prepare by-laws for approval by parliament. Provided assistance to the new social protection policy and legal framework implementation in the context of social protection reform. • Introduced institutional changes to further promote and extend the social services decentralisation process within the SWF. Provided technical support in the institutional development and social services decentralisation; • Conducted Training Needs Assessment (TNA), on-the-job trainings, workshops and capacity development for the SWF’s staff. Provided assistance to the SWF with the organisation of training courses and workshops at all levels (central, governorate/branch and district) in the context of social protection reform and institutional development • Child protection manuals • Development and implementation of grievanceand complaints process • Development of review of civil society • Development of 5 year policy strategy 14/08/201 1- 14/11/201 3 Afghanista n IBF sondji@ibf.be EU Social Protection Expert Evaluation of the Identification of the needs and opportunities for future action:Takinginto consideration theresults of the evaluation for each sub sector of Social Protection in Afghanistan,I was involved in drawingup recommendations for the update of the EU Social Protection budget fundingpolicy as well as identify new activities to be funded in the next framework. This involved a review of civil society. 3/2011- 05 2011 Home based Icon Institute inga.korte@icon- institute.de UNICeF Team Leader The objective of the project is to review and improve statistical information and analysisin TransMonEE managed by UNICEF and to scrutinizeand identify those indicators that providefurther disaggregation.This introduced
  • 6. a more systematic approach to providinggood quality data which is pertinent to the region and provides an Equity focus on those who are in most need and are socially excluded in CIE/CEE. 01-2008- 01-2010 FYROM Donnelly Hall Ltd World Bank FYROM paul@donnellyhall.co m Expert in social services Expert for decentralisation and deinstitutionalisation for the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy.The overridingobjectiveof this consultancy is to provideadviceand assistanceto the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (MLSP) to review and strengthen the national management and co-ordination capacity of the MLSP and Social Welfare Centres (SWCs) to decentralisation and deinstitutionalisation.I was responsiblefor targeting and developingsustainability for developing the maintenance of community based social services aswell as the development of standards and criteria for social workers and licensed social services providers as well as reform of social assistance system to improve /standardisein services. Restructuringinstitutions for children and developing principles for child protection.This also included an evaluation of social services to includecivil society and local governance. 02- 08/ 2010 Palestine Jeremy. West HTSPE Jeremy.West@HTSP E.com EU Team Leader Advise on policy and management of a Technical Assistanceprojectaimed at the organisational reformand capacity buildingfor the Ministry of Social Affairs,by developinga unified social safety net and upgradingsocial protection legislation and developingMoSA’s organisational structureand workingmethods to strengthen Human Resources Development and improve staff performance, providing specific supportto developing the HR Department. Trainingneeds analysisand trainingprogramme as well developing business plansfor all departments. This involved on the job support to social workers through standardizingwork protocols and developing monitoringsystems. • Led the Technical Assistance (TA) project aimed at the organisational reform of the social protection system and institutional development of the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA); by developing a unified social safety net and upgrading social protection legislation for a more effective decentralised social service delivery system covering all poor and vulnerablesegments;
  • 7. • Leadership and management of a Technical Assistance project aimed at the organisational reform and capacity building for the Ministry of Social Affairs, this also involved providing strategies for decentralization. Undertaken TNA and subsequent training • Development of social policies • Provided technical support to improve the capacity of the Ministry to carry out its mandate regarding social protection, including modernisation/restructuration of its administration; • Provided technical advice in formulating strategies to support the process of social services decentralization and restructuring • Development and implementation of grievance and complaints procedures and guidelines for civil society 12-01/ 06-07 Moldova NICO Graeme McCammon g.mccammon@nico. org.uk DFID Team Leader Improving Agricultural and Social Statistics. Providing overall management for Family Budget Survey and Labour Force Survey. Also responsible for providing a dissemination strategy, as well as providing better quality and more robust statistics for the Ministries of Agriculture, Social and Labour. This project provided a training needs analysis, training for staff and elaboration of training programmes. This also involved utilising labour statistics and proving support to the Ministry of Labour. Training of interviewers and field supervisors. This also involved restructuring institutions. Evaluation of social services to includecivil society. 05-05/ 12-05 Ukraine British Council EU Team Leader • Team Leader of Regional Social Services in Rivne and Volyn. The overall goal for this project was to improve the effectiveness and cost efficiency of Social Services in Ukraine, providing Technical Assistance and increasing the capacity of the Ministry of Labour and Social Services and its regional departments to facilitate the effective implementation of the provisions of the Law on Social Services. Developing and testing strategic planning innovative models to reform social service provision for
  • 8. vulnerablegroups. • Included developing innovative ways of developing and conducting a training needs analysis, preparing a training manual and delivery of training to all social work staff as well as developing guidelines and standards for elderly, people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problems. This project involved training social workers to include working with people with disabilities and developing university qualifications. • Developed innovative models to reform the social services delivery system and support the decentralisation process of services for child protection; Developed guidelines and standards to facilitate the decentralisation process. • Contributed to the social policy • Developed and implemented social work standards which involved grievance and complaints procedures. • Developed child protection guidelines • Development and implementation of restructuringof institutions for children • Evaluation of social services to include civil society • Development of guidelines for civil grants 07-05/07- 06 Kosovo Paul Donnelly Paul@donnellyhall.c om UNDP Kosovo Evaluation Expert Expert for End of project review evaluation of three year UNDP funded programme designed to prepare the Kosovo Police Service for local administration and control. This review was concerned with internal and external oversight issues and internal affairs mechanisms includingbudgetary issues. 06-03/ 05-04 Moldova Donnelly Hall Ltd Costel Ceocea Moldova SIF World Bank Social Impact expert Impact Evaluation Of Social Investment Fund project involved a review of the Moldova Social Investment Fund and making recommendations for future programmes. Elaboration and development of several major surveys of beneficiaries of 2000 participants and counterfactual communities of social services to include civil society and local governances as well as individual and focus group interviews, complex data analysis and preparation of reports and contributing to civil society to include all levels of society. This included a review of civil society. Organisinga study tour to Northern Ireland. 01-02/ 05-04 Kosovo Donnelly Hall Ltd Senior Expert Technical Assistance for the Review and Update of Applicable Social Laws, undertaking
  • 9. World Bank Kosovo a review of current social welfare legislation to include children and people with disabilities in the context of best practice and human rights conventions, preparation of new draft legislation and regulations and advising government on the passage of the legislation through the Assembly which involved strategic planning and policy development. This involved developing grievanceand complaints procedures. This was a major two year process involving a highly participative approach to the preparation of new laws and regulations. It entailed the complete revision of all current European social welfare legislation and its replacement with new statutes especially in the area of child protection and people with disabilities. This also included an evaluation of social services to include civil society and local governance. 01-02/ 01-04 Moldova HTSPE Jeremy West Training Expert Technical Assistance to the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection: Social Capacity Project. Provision of training and capacity building activities to introduce a single social assistance form, to help target the most disadvantaged groups and socially excluded. This helped to develop the social assistance programme and included an evaluation of social services and civil society as well as local governances. 09-02/ 07-05 Croatia, BiH, Serbia, Montenegr o Donnelly Hall Ltd DFID Senior Expert Field Management Consultancy: Balkans Conflict Prevention Fund. Supported team leader for the UK funded Safety, Security and Access to Justice Programme in the Balkans. Tasks: Oversight on behalf of DFID of an extensive Technical Assistance programme, including courts, prisons, police and prosecutors; Contributing to the development of project ToR and designing logframes; Involvement in the approval of project technical proposals and budgets, consultants’ recruitment; Monitoring 13 justice sector projects throughout the Balkans and included an evaluation of social services and civil society as well as local governances.; Conducting Programme reviews of the above projects; Liaising with international donors and British Government Ministers ; Liaising with counterpart ministries, Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), OHR Office of the High Representative in BiH, OSCE Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe;
  • 10. Advising DFID on Safety Security and Access to Justiceissues in the Region . 05-07/02 Kosovo Donnelly Hall Ltd DFID Social Protection Expert Social Protection Design of Certified Social Work Training and Continuous Professional Development Expert. Advisor undertaking a scoping study for the provision of a social work course in Kosovo, commissioned by DFID. Commissioned to review the current state of professional development and make early recommendations on the organisation and regulatory framework that would be appropriate for the development of social care services. I developed the curriculum design for the bachelor level degree especially in the area of child protection and people with disabilities. 09-99/ 01-01 Moldova NICO DFID Research and Statistical Expert Statistics Expert providing training in research skills, interviewing skills, data collection and analysis for staff within the Bureau of National Statistics. Provision of staff training in identifying national health and social indicators to help develop social policy. 11-01/ 01-02 Kyrgyzstan NICO EU Statistics Expert Kyrgyzstan Health Statistics. Statistician involved in project to advise the National Statistics Office and the Medical Information Centre of the Ministry of Health in taking forward the implementation and development of the international classification of disease and the development of health related statistics and indicators. This involved reviewing how the National Statistics Office was recording statistics and developing a system to re- classify these statistics so that they were adjusted to the EU Standards. This led to massive changes within the NSO changing how they collect and analyse the data. 01-99/ 09-02 Ukraine NICO (see above) DFID Social Assistance Expert Enhancing the Capacity for Social Assistance Project. Expert adviser aimed at supporting the capacity building of social assistance agencies in Ukraine. Building on the work of a previous TACIS project this project demonstrated how targeting of social benefits to the most needy can be improved through building the capacity of delivery agencies at central, regional and local government levels. 12-00/ 11-01 Kosovo Donnelly Hall Ltd DFID Social Protection Expert United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo Capacity Building Project. Expert adviser on a UK Government funded project
  • 11. aimed at supporting the capacity building of social protection and social assistance agencies in Kosovo as well as developing guidelines and standards for social workers in the area of child protection. 04-06/01 Kosovo Donnelly Hall Ltd CARE Social Protection Expert Development & Introduction of Child Protection Procedures & Manual for UNICEF. Senior Expert for project undertaking preparation of Child Abuse Manual and Child Care Procedures for UNICEF in Kosovo. This Manual was used within all the Balkan Countries. 1-12/2001 Belfast Donnelly Hall Ltd DHSS Evaluation Expert Evaluation of Aftercare Services for Young People Leaving Care. This was an evaluation of the Aftercare services for teenagers leave care. Review of standards in Northern Ireland Social care and health agencies. All statutory social service and health agencies in Northern Ireland were targeted and their systems of how they manage their staff and adhere to national standards were reviewed and monitored for the HRD and social policy 01-00/ 01-01 Ukraine Donnelly Hall Ltd DFID Senior Expert Local and Regional Government Institutional Reform Support Project. Expert Advisor to a Technical Assistance project involved with restructuring and developing the institutional interface between Central Regional and Local Government. Tasks: design and support of a demonstration sub-project focused on the monitoring of health and social needs in the city of Lviv; evaluation of the impact of services and advice on a more efficiently targeting system for policy development, especially in the area of child protection and included an evaluation of social services and civil society as well as local governances. 01-00/ 01-01 Belfast Donnelly Hall Ltd DHSS Team Leader Database Construction and Critique of Social Research. Gathering all social work research throughout Northern Ireland and providing a critique of each study. This database was then housed in the National Library to be used by social and health careworkers. 06-12/ 2000 Belfast Donnelly Hall Ltd DHSS Evaluation Expert Evaluation of child Protection Inter-Agency Protocols. Evaluation of operational protocols between police, social service and medical agencies; presentation of recommendations for service improvement for social policy development; analysis of documentary records, group discussions and individual interviews with professionals implementing the protocols. Development of standards and guidelines
  • 12. 2002 Belfast Dept of Health and Social Services Donnelly Hall Ltd Expert Adviser Inspections of NGOs receivinggovernment grant aid:Inspectorate Several inspections of NGOs that were in receipt of central government grants to provide specialistservices e.g. bereavement counselling,servicesto people with brain injuries etc.These were standard SSI inspections focusingon professional standards and value for money issues. 2001 Belfast Dept of Health and Social Services Donnelly Hall Ltd Expert Adviser Review of organisational standards in Northern Ireland social careagencies By means of interviews with senior personnel and questionnaires returned by all statutory social serviceagencies in Northern Ireland mapped out the extent to which these agencies participated in formal organisational standards schemes; Investors in People, Charter Awards, BSI9000 etc 2001 Belfast Dept of Health and Social Services Donnelly Hall Ltd Expert Adviser Review of professional auditpractices in Northern Ireland social careagencies and provision As well as interviewingpersonnel in social services agencies,we undertook a postal survey of 2,500 social servicepersonnel in Northern Ireland.The resultingreport lead to the promotion of professional auditas a key element in the development quality standards in social careservices. 2000 Belfast Dept of Health and Social Services Donnelly Hall Ltd Expert Adviser Preparation of statutory regulations for guardians ad Litem in Northern Ireland Commissioned to prepare draft statutory regulations and formal guidancefor guardians ad Litem representing children’s interests in court proceedings 09-97/ 12-99 Ukraine Donnelly Hall Ltd (see above) Social Protection Expert Full time EU TACIS Social AssistanceTA Project. Expert responsiblefor:the development and support of trainingstrategies to enablethe implementation of new social protection legislation ;establishmentof trainingtask forces in the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy;development of the trainer programmes and oversight of the delivery of trainingto 500 staff throughout Ukraine; establishmentof a national trainingcentrefor staff working in social protection/social assistanceatcentral and local government levels.I also developed on-the-job supportto improve/standardize their work protocols and monitoring 01/1997– 09/2000 England and Scotland Donnelly Hall Ltd Paul Donnelly paul@donnellyhall.c om Expert Trainer Training on Risk Management. This included training social workers and managers on child protection and risk management. Developed and delivered training courses to a number of social work agencies throughout England and
  • 13. Various councils in England and Scotland Scotland. 01-98/ 01-99 Australia Donnelly Hall Ltd Senior Expert Review of Social Work Education in Australia. Development of regulatory framework for social work education and training in Australia to develop their strategic planning: commissioned by the Commonwealth Government of Australia and the Australian Association of Social Workers. This involved taking statements from all universities with all state and territories within Australia with cross comparison to social work courses in Europe. 01-2009-02 2009, 01 2012- 04 2102 01/205 Northern Ireland Randstad Agency Social worker Full time Duty Social worker for team that provide supportto children and families.This involved : Interviewing and counsellingindividuals, families,and groups,Assessingneeds and developing responseplans,Referringclients to professional or community services, Coordinatingresponses between civic, religious,governmental, and other organizations. 09-94/ 05-97 London England Prof T. Craig Guys and St Thomas Hospital London thomas.craig@iop.kc l.ac.uk Research Fellow Full time Responsible for major research project on Child and Family Health examining how health beliefs are transferred between mothers and children with disabilities as well as parents who have mental health issues. Training researchers, collate information using SPSS and qualitative methods, analysis and present results atconferences. 09-94/ 06-98 Kingston England Hilary Thompsett h.tompsett@sgul.kin gston.ac.uk Lecturer Full time Developing and delivering of training related to child protection and child development and families at Masters Level. Writing and developing curriculum for social work students at Masters Level. This involved preparing students for placements and monitoringtheir progress. 01-92/ 08- 94 Dundee Scotland Peter Willattsp.willatts@d undee.ac.uk Psychologist Full time Responsible for day to day management of child development project. Carried out the cognitive tests on 200 children. Other duties included data input and analysis and presentation of the results at academic conferences. I was also responsible for providing counselling to those women who were identified with vulnerablechildren. 01-91/ 01- 92 St Andrews University Scotland Prof C Cullen mailto:Chris.Cullen@ northstaffs.nhs.uk Psychologist Full time Responsible for the training needs analysis of all staff working with people with profound disabilities throughout Scotland. Development of a training schedule in relation to the results from this research .I
  • 14. also provided support and counselling for people with profound disabilities as well as their families. 09-89/ 01-91 Dundee Scotland Prof N Emlern.emler@surre y.ac.uk Research Psychologist Full time Responsible for day to day management for young persons’ lifestyle project and young peoples’ perceptions of AIDS and safer sex. This involved collection of data, analysis and report writing and presentation at academic conferences. This project focused on 5000 young people. Responsible for psychology tutorial programme for undergraduate students.