Claire is Knowledge Exchange Coordinator at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR).  Her role involves supporting engagement between researchers and others with an interest in crime and justice issues.  Claire works with a wide range of stakeholders (such as governmental policy makers, politicians, social workers, third sector organisations, journalists etc) to keep them infomed of relevant research in their areas of interest and to ensure any research undertaken and produced by SCCJR is informed by  knowledge, experiences and needs outside academia. Claire works to effectively disseminate research findings and outputs produced by SCCJR and is involved in activities which support the use of our research in policy-making and practice.  Claire is also involved in undertaking research about processes of knowledge exchamge, particularly the role of knowledge brokers.

Claire has previously worked in research and knowledge exchange roles at the Scottish Local Government Improvement Service and the Scottish Government.   Throughout her career Claire has been involved in supporting and promoting the use of research in policy and practice. She has experience of conducting, designing and managing a range of social research projects.  These have been on various topics, including, the customer experience,  working across boundaries , information management, civil justice, devolution and policy making.   Claire also has experience of facilitating and supporting networks and communities. 

Claire is particularly interested in ideas about research utilisation, knowledge brokerage, knowledge management, supporting the use of evidence in policy and practice and developing practice and policy informed research.