Senior Research Strategist

Social & UX Research · Ethnography · Strategy ·

Research rooted in people. Strategy grounded in evidence.

I work at the intersection of user behaviour, product strategy, and evidence. My research programmes give teams the clarity they need to prioritise confidently — whether that means redesigning a digital service, shaping a product roadmap, or making the case for investment.

I’m a senior researcher and strategist, with a background in social science, ethnography, and applied research.

My foundation is social research — ethnography, anthropology, qualitative fieldwork. That’s where I learned how to read people and organisations carefully, and how to sit with complexity long enough to understand it properly. It’s also what distinguishes how I work: I bring a depth of human understanding to applied research contexts that goes beyond usability and metrics.

What connects all of it is a consistent approach: defining the right question, designing research that generates credible evidence, and translating that evidence into something organisations can actually act on. I’ve built research practices from the ground up, introduced AI-assisted workflows for synthesis and insight governance, led cross-functional stakeholder engagement, and delivered recommendations that have shaped product roadmaps, policy briefs, and commercial strategies.

I hold a PhD in Social Sciences. I’ve published peer-reviewed articles in international journals and presented at conferences across Europe, North America, and Brazil. I bring academic rigour to applied problems — and the pragmatism that commercial and product environments require.

Research Strategy & Programme Design

I design end-to-end research programmes, from shaping the right question to delivering findings that land with stakeholders. I work across qualitative and quantitative methods and choose the approach that fits the problem, not the one that’s easiest to run.

Evaluative & Behavioural User Research

I investigate how people interact with products and services — identifying points of friction, unmet expectations, and emerging workarounds. My approach combines moderated interviews, usability sessions, AI-assisted unmoderated research, and behavioural analytics to build a comprehensive and reliable evidence base.

Social & Ethnographic Research

My research practice is rooted in social science. I have conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork across migration and belonging, religious identity, sexuality and music culture, and LGBTQ+ rights and public health — working in community settings, high-risk environments, and across cultural and linguistic boundaries. This depth of human understanding informs every applied research project I take on.

Synthesis & Strategic Framing

I translate complex, multi-source evidence into clear prioritisation frameworks and recommendations. The goal is always to make findings decision-ready — structured in a way that stakeholders can act on directly.

Regulated & High-Stakes Environments

I’ve worked in regulated healthcare, EU policy settings, and sensitive social research contexts — including long-term ethnographic fieldwork. I understand compliance requirements, ethical research design, and how to operate when the stakes are high.

Publications & Policy Impact 

Six peer-reviewed articles in international journals, research cited in EU policy briefs and white papers, and findings presented at conferences across Europe, North America, and Brazil.

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