My professional background
I was born in Peterborough in 1960 and brought up on the edge of the Cambridgeshire Fens before heading north to read Economics at Leeds University and then completing an MSc in Information Science at Sheffield University.
I have a professional background in content creation, curation, and online search. More specifically I worked in the media industry in London for over 30 years specialising in content writing and curation, indexing and proofreading, as well as searching for information and fact-checking. I set up Burwell Web Communications (burweb) at the end of 2009 after 21 years at the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA). For the last 11 of those years I was Knowledge Director; previously I had worked in publishing and a major international charity in information research roles after my first paid position as Information Officer at the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi.
I have a professional background in content creation, curation, and online search. More specifically I worked in the media industry in London for over 30 years specialising in content writing and curation, indexing and proofreading, as well as searching for information and fact-checking. I set up Burwell Web Communications (burweb) at the end of 2009 after 21 years at the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA). For the last 11 of those years I was Knowledge Director; previously I had worked in publishing and a major international charity in information research roles after my first paid position as Information Officer at the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi.