Team & work

Amanda is a skilled researcher with wide ranging experience across a number of policy areas including waste, energy, planning and business productivity. Although at home working with quantitative data, Amanda’s real passion lies in qualitative methodologies. She brings a real ability to engage with respondents on their terms and handle sensitive issues with a light but careful touch, obtaining full and honest answers to probing areas of questioning.

Dea has a strong academic background where she has gained an advanced level of research knowledge. She has a developed understanding of the theoretical and practical nuances of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Dea’s area of expertise is behavioural science; understanding the mental processes that inform human behaviour and decision-making in different contexts, and how they can be appealed to. She applies this knowledge to the development of research instruments and the evaluation of interventions in various fields including sustainability and innovation.

Doros’s excellent knowledge of survey methodologies ensures that collected data is of a very high quality. Doros is skilled in quantitative methods, providing new insight to inform the evaluation of a variety of programmes and policies – he is an accomplished modeller and uses complex statistical techniques to interpret trends across large survey datasets.

Janet is an experienced Project Manager with a diverse career spanning several areas including consultancy and operational management. She is a natural communicator with strong leadership skills and a high level of emotional intelligence. Qualified Institute of Leadership and Management - Executive Coach and Leadership Mentor Qualified Prince 2 Historically, Janet worked in the nuclear, low carbon/energy and engineering sectors in Cumbria with a focus on the West Cumbrian Coastline. She is experience with major European funded projects - accessing funding with responsibility for project delivery of £4.1 million grant scheme to support SME development. Janet brings excellent existing working relationships with major economic development organisations in Cumbria and she is a great believer in networking to strengthen business growth. Janet has developed strong links with support agencies, universities, network groups and Business clusters in order to secure an extensive knowledge of business/support opportunities available to time starved businesses.

Karl is an accomplished researcher and evaluator and designs and delivers research and evaluation to aid the development of policy and programmes. As a pragmatic problem solver, he considers client’s research questions in the context of their wider strategic objectives before developing bespoke solutions, often synthesising best practice and innovative approaches.

Kieran is an accomplished and highly skilled creative who has designed and overseen a multitude of branding and highly innovative creative marketing campaigns for winning moves. His creative designs have been used to promote business support programmes and software products that have engaged thousands of businesses.

Mark is an experienced business consultant and company Director, having played a variety of roles in the development of Winning Moves since leaving the world of finance in 1999. His work has included developing and managing numerous best practice, innovation and enterprise development programmes in the UK and overseas, including driving the creation of more than 40 benchmark centres around the world. He also has a passion for working directly with businesses, particularly on strategy development.

Paul joined Winning Moves in April 2019, bringing a 12-year track record in designing, managing and delivering high quality and strategically important research on behalf of government departments, local authorities, charitable organisations and regulators. Paul’s vast work experience has enabled him to develop significant understanding of impact evaluation, survey design and implementation, and the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data using mixed methodologies. He brings a commitment, energy and enthusiasm to his work. Paul offers excellent written communication skills and a track record in writing publishable outputs; his writing is clear, concise and elegant.

Samina is a highly experienced project manager and is proficient at identifying and managing risk and critical path; she has a strong track record of delivering on time and to budget, and has worked on many of our large, complex or challenging projects, including for WRAP, BIS, HMRC, DCMS and Innovate.gov. Samina ensures that the project team are fully briefed on their contribution to the project and coordinates and deploys resources to ensure that our projects are delivered according to agreed milestones and overall timetable.

Sarah has strong research experience and with a background in academic research she has extensive theoretical and practical experience of advanced quantitative data analysis. An allrounder, Sarah is also well versed in qualitative approaches, as well as mixed methodology projects. Sarah has worked across a range of areas including recycling and waste, skills needs analysis and business support.