Policy and Consultancy

Civil Service

30.9.2025: Spoke on a panel on Responsible Leadership at the online Policy Profession Festival.

8.7.2025: Gave a talk on Plato in the Policy Unit: Guarding Truth and Reason in Government at Civil Service Live at the Excel Exhibition Centre London.

January 2025 (ongoing): Advised U.K. Cabinet office on strengthening the Civil Service Code, particularly with regard to a possible new Duty of Candour, and on supporting civil servants in adhering to it.

26.3.2024: Provided an online training session on The Socratic Questioning Technique to civil servants in the Human-Centred Design Team in the Department of Work and Pensions.

15.2.2022: Chaired an online debate for civil servants on Drivers of Cultural Change and Implications for Policy, organized by HMG Open Innovation.

30.6.2022: Gave an online talk to civil servants across Whitehall and Downing Street on What Would Plato Think of Modern Democracy?, organized by HMG Open Innovation.

Health Research Authority (HRA)

5.3.2025: Gave two talks (followed by workshops) to the Chairs of the Research Ethics Committees: Three Approaches to Ethics and How to Make an Ethically Justifiable Decision at the Excel Exhibition Centre London. 

National Health Service (NHS)

11.7.2024: Gave a day of talks and workshops facilitated by Fraser Battye on Ethical Decision-Making for Clinical Leaders for Clinical Leaders in West Midlands CSU at The Studio, Birmingham: i) Three Approaches to Ethics; ii) Untangling the Ethics of the NHS Constitution; iii) How to Make an Ethically Justifiable Decision.

9.11.2022: Publication of my Ethics Review of the NHS Strategy Unit report Strategies to Reduce Inequalities in Access to Planned Care.

Following my Ethics Review, I was asked to discuss How Do You Know If You’ve Made an Ethically Justifiable Decision? with Fraser Battye on 28.11.2022 at the online NHS INSIGHT Festival, hosted by the West Midlands Decision Support Unit in association with the Strategy Unit: