Role
Rich takes the lead on facilitating connections between researchers, policymakers, communities, businesses and citizens and maximising the impact of Nottingham Civic Exchange's work. He has a passion for working with people in a variety of settings and across topic areas to help create meaningful change and utilise expertise and insights. Alongside is role as a knowledge broker and mobiliser, he has developed a focus on the informal economy, civil contingencies and wellbeing over recent years and was seconded to the C19 National Foresight Group through the pandemic. He is Co-Chair of the Areas for Research sub-committee for the University Policy Engagement Network and runs NCE's Policy Fellowship programme and Policy Engagement Group at NTU.
Career overview
Rich has a background in knowledge brokerage and mobilisation alongside outdoor education and youth work, and before working with NTU, he was based at the RSA supporting their work across Wales and the Midlands.
Research areas
Through a policy engagement and facilitation lens, Rich undertakes research with collaborators on the informal economy, civil contingencies and wellbeing. He has also undertaken a range of research consultancy projects on a wide variety of topics, ranging from arts and culture evaluations to partnership responses to violence against women and girls.
Through his role, Rich also supports research across a broad range of topics and subjects and works with academics and partners to maximise its reach and impact. He takes a lead on policy engagement in the School of Social Sciences, alongside playing a central role in the Work, Informalisation and Place Research Centre at NTU.
He holds an MA in Early Modern British History. He is always keen to talk about travel writing in Ireland and 18th century popular protest alongside policy engagement, impact, the value of NTU's research and knowledge exchange activity.
External activity
Rich is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
A Co-Chair of the ARI Sub-Committee for UPEN
Press expertise
Knowledge Exchange, Brokerage and Mobilisation
Policy Engagement
The informal economy
Labour Market Exploitation
Hand Car Washes
Civil Contingencies