Profile photo of James LockwoodJames Lockwood started in September as our new Research Impact and Engagement Manager based in Jisc. We asked him a few questions about himself and what he’s looking forward to about the role.
What were you involved in before you started your new role?
I lived in Ireland and worked as the impact taiwan rcs data and research lead for a small educational technology non-profit. My role was to help the rest of the team in areas around monitoring and evaluation of their projects as well as working organisationally to develop processes around tracking our impact in specific and broad ways. Prior to that I researched in the area of Computer Science Education.
What attracted you to the role?
Whilst I had worked in the general area of impact and had been involved in research before, joining those two together and focussing on it was really interesting to me. Being able to support and highlight the impactful research being done across the county sounded like very varied work and being able to highlight that work sounded like a really positive team to be a part of. I love learning and so a new area with the chance to engage with people doing interesting work across so many fields was also very appealing.