Resume
Summary

Research Expertise: I have 6+ years of experience conducting impactful qualitative and quantitative research for startups, scale-ups and mature organisations with incremental volumes of over $10 billion.
User-Centred Design: I approach research by blending technical rigour with a deep understanding of user needs from cultural psychology utilising qualitative and quantitative research methods to inform strategic product decisions.
Agile approach: I've spearheaded process improvements to democratise research by up skilling designers and product partners to increase delivery speeds by over 30% in agile teams.
Experience
JULY 2025 -PRESENT
Senior UX Researcher
Worldpay
London, UK
Conducted comprehensive research and synthesised evidence based insights on emerging partner needs to align internal product teams.
Championed internal research strategy for AI experimentation, on leveraging synthetic users and secondary research opportunities through AI assistants.
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Spearheaded development of research customer panel to accelerate participant access for research studies in collaboration with product and commercialisation partners.
APRIL 2021 - MAY 2025
Design Researcher
Wise
London, UK

Led comprehensive research (interviews, usability tests, surveys, participatory workshops) to inform strategy for support management tooling that enhanced agent efficiency by 20%.
Conducted the 1st foundational research study to understand the needs and barriers to adoption of the large transacting customer segment to inform 3 major product initiatives (onboarding, send and support flow) resulting in transacting volumes increasing by 371%.
Planned and facilitated 10+ cross-functional workshops, aligning stakeholder knowledge and contextualising findings to uncover causes of points of user attrition in the 'send flow.
Piloted research scaling programme, boosting agile teams’ delivery by 50%.
SEPTEMBER 2019 - MARCH 2021
User Experience Researcher
Dext
London, UK

Conducted extensive evaluative study on rebrand across consumer-facing mobile and web platforms, that boosted onboarding and feature adoption by 15%.
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Coordinated multi-phase research efforts utilising usability testing, user interviews and surveys, delivering actionable insights to the senior leadership team.
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Spearheaded user segmentation study, utilising interviews and data analysis on 4 segments to inform new personalised onboarding workflow on mobile platform.
APRIL 2019 - AUGUST 2019
Customer Experience Researcher
Ipsos Mori
London, UK
Utilised personas and journey maps to deliver strategic insights to the leadership team Google Digital Garage project.
Leveraged data mining techniques and sentiment analysis to identify workflow improvements on course content that increased user satisfaction by 10%.

JULY 2018 - APRIL 2019
Human Factors Researcher
Bentley Motors
Crewe, UK

Conducted eye-tracking study in alignment with best practices for HF engineering for a new automotive interface product space.
Delivered insights integrating cognitive psychology principles on 3 solutions to balance user engagement and safety concerns with new interface changes.
Education
SEPTEMBER 2021- MARCH 2024
MSc in Social and Cultural Psychology
London School of Economics and Political Science
Relevant Coursework: Cognitive & Cultural Psychology, Emotional Design, Social Influence, Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods
Dissertation: "A Cross-Cultural Examination of Emerging Tourist Experiences”
London, UK

SEPTEMBER 2014-OCTOBER 2018
MEng Mechanical Engineering
Relevant Coursework: Design Thinking, Computing for User Centred Design, Ergonomics, Statistical Analysis, Technical Specifications
Imperial College London
London, UK
Research Methodology & Toolsets
Qualitative Methodologies
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Usability testing
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Interviews
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Focus groups
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Workshops
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Observational studies
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Contextual inquiry
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Diary studies
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Heuristic Evaluations
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Jobs to be done Frameworks
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Design Participatory Sessions
Quantitative Methodologies
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Surveys
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Card Sorts
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Benchmarking Testing
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Data analysis
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Customer Segmentation
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Hypothesis Testing
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Sampling A/B Testing
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Statistical analysis
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Regression Analysis
Tools
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Nvivo
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Excel, SPSS, R
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SurveyMonkey
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Optimal Workshop
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Google Analytics
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UserTesting
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Miro
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Figma
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Adobe XD
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Miro
Artifacts​
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Storyboarding
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Journey Mapping
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Jobs to be Done
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Personas
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Empathy Mapping
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Affinity Mapping
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Data Visualisation​
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Service Blueprints
UX Service
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Conferences: Speaker at BlackTechFest 2023, Panelist at Brain station Panel on Starting and Building a Career in UX
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UX Certifications: Nielsen Norman Group UX Certification, Studio D Strategic Narratives Course