
About
Where evidence becomes insight, and insight becomes meaningful action.
"You've been brilliant throughout the process. Very much looking forward to welcoming you to the LGB and working with you."
Victoria Wilkes,
Senior Governance Officer, Better Futures Multi-Academy Trust
"I love reading about your adventures, your successes, and how you continue to challenge yourself in every way that matters."
Lynne Weber
Principal,
The Kings School
Josef is an insight-led problem solver focused on transforming complex, often unstructured information into clear, actionable decisions that drive real-world impact. In his current role as Student Voice Coordinator at UWTSD London, he operates at the intersection of analysis, delivery, and stakeholder management. He designs and delivers engagement and research initiatives that generate both qualitative and quantitative data, then translates that insight into structured outputs used by academic teams, senior leadership, and support services to improve decision-making.
What defines his approach is the ability to bring structure to ambiguity. Much of the data he works with is messy, incomplete, or highly subjective, drawn from lived experience, open-text feedback, and informal interaction. Josef specialises in converting this into coherent narratives, evidence-led recommendations, and scalable frameworks that organisations can act on. This includes leading high-volume engagement initiatives, generating datasets of 300+ data points, and delivering outputs that directly inform improvements to student experience, wellbeing, and institutional processes.
Alongside delivery, Josef's focus is on how insight is embedded into systems, not just produced. He's worked across projects involving democratic engagement, service evaluation, and inclusion, where the challenge is not only gathering data but ensuring it meaningfully shapes governance, communication, and strategy. This has involved working closely with students, academic staff, senior leaders, and external stakeholders, aligning perspectives and ensuring outputs are both analytically rigorous and practically usable. Alongside his professional work, Josef also contributes to educational governance as a Community Governor within a Multi-Academy Trust, supporting institutional oversight, constructive challenge, safeguarding, and learner outcomes.
Josef holds a First Class Honours degree in Sociology with Technologies and Economic Markets from the University of Warwick, where he developed strong foundations in mixed-methods research, critical analysis, and applied social inquiry. His dissertation (78%) examined digital populism and youth voting behaviour across Europe, combining Critical Discourse Analysis, NVivo thematic coding, and quantitative electoral data. This work reflects his broader interest in how data, narratives, and institutional structures shape participation, trust, and outcomes at scale.
Beyond academia, Josef has delivered and supported large-scale democratic engagement initiatives, including elections with over 5,500 participants, and national-level work with the National Union of Students. These experiences have strengthened his ability to operate in high-stakes, high-participation environments, balancing operational delivery with data-informed insight and governance requirements.
Across all of Josef's work, he's motivated by a simple principle: good decisions depend on good insight, but insight only matters if it is structured, communicated clearly, and embedded into action. He is particularly interested in roles where analysis meets execution, applying structured thinking, data, and evaluation to solve complex problems across public, private, and policy contexts.
"Josef fully exploits the data collected in drawing conclusions, demonstrating a true researcher in the making."
Professor Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Professorship,
University of Warwick
"You know it's your hard work. Your choices... But you did it! You!"
Barry Smith
Former Headteacher, Charter Academy

"Congratulations on your successful appointment following a really impressive performance through the recruitment process."
Dr. Vicki Ensor
Chair, King Edward VI College Local Governing Body
"This is an excellent, interesting, and engaging piece of work."
Dissertation Supervisor,
University of Warwick
