Rachel is an experienced researcher and project manager with experience of policy and strategy development, as well as project implementation. She has worked in a number of public sector organisations and government departments managing large organisational development projects. She has also been a line manager of project staff for some complex government lead projects.

Rachel has proven research skills and project management experience. She has worked on a number of large, organisational projects, for example she managed the successful amalgamation of the 22 bodies responsible for the administration of the magistrates' courts in London into one body. This included modelling the effect of various different management structures and resource levels, and consideration of the impact of organisational changes on the inter-relationship with other criminal justice agencies and initiatives.

She has just finished a major project working with the police, courts and prison service to develop a strategy to implement late night court sessions in London. This complex intervention was directly set up in partnership to increase public reassurance and to reduce the fear of crime. Rachel also has experience of working with the police on several projects, including a project looking at representation of minority group in specialist roles.

She has experience of researching inequalities issues across a number of subject areas. For example, she has undertaken research projects examining health inequalities and the way in which hard to reach communities need to be engaged to access services and inequalities in the work place. Her work with Special Educational Needs has also examined the way people, particularly hard to reach groups, can be included and engaged. She also worked on a project to increase the flexible working arrangements in a large government department. The report she prepared was endorsed by the Permanent Secretary and she is currently involved in the practical development of the policy and implementation of the action plan. She has conducted similar projects to encourage women and minority ethic groups into job areas where they are poorly represented.

She has extensive experience of working with the voluntary community sector and has recently been appointed as the Independent National Co-ordinator for the Health Development Agency.

And yes, Rachel was a practicing vet and she spent a while in Australia tending sheep amongst other things.