Hello, I’m Faye!

Your friendly neighbourhood Public & Community Engagement Consultant.

A geometric patterned fabric with triangles and diagonal lines in shades of blue, navy, and yellow.
A young woman with shoulder-length brown hair smiling outdoors in a city, wearing a blue and green patterned shirt and matching earrings.

I’m a passionate Public and Community Engagement Consultant with a diverse range of experience in the Higher Education, third and natural heritage sectors.

I love bringing people together in equitable spaces to make change in their own community. Whether through workshop facilitation, pubilc consultations, events or strategy development.

I put people at the heart of what I do, ensuring personal motivations and goals are intertwined in project delivery whether this be on a small 1-2-1 basis, or for large complex organisations in the Higher Education sector.

Find out more about projects I am working on, events I am running and services I provide here:

Events
Services
Projects
Pattern of interlocking triangles in shades of blue, yellow, and dark blue.

Awards/Funding

2024 College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Staff Awards - Winner of Excellent Newcomer Award

2023 Churchill Fellowship - Fellowship awarded

Uni of Glasgow Professional Services Excellence Awards 2022 - Winner

Uni of Glasgow MVLS Engagement Awards 2022 - Unseen Hands project shortlisted for 2022 Public Engagement Project Award

Qualifications / Education

  • Master of Research in Research Techniques for Life Sciences, University of Bristol, 2017-2019.

  • Master of Research in Biosciences, Cardiff University, 2016-2017.

  • Bachelor of Science in Biology, Cardiff University, 2013-2016.

Trained in Mental Health First Aid (Wales), covered by Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme (Scotland).

Voluntary Positions

  • Chair - Scottish Public Engagement Network (ScotPEN)

  • Co-chair - Interdisciplinary Research in Sexual Health Network (IReSH) Scotland

  • Trustee - Waverley Care

A geometric pattern with interlocking diamonds and lines in black, blue, yellow, and light blue colors.

More Ancient History

Previous to my public engagement career, I was an active researcher looking at cell communication in flowering plants during fertilisation! You can find out more about the various research projects I have worked on here!

I also used to be a freelance photographer mainly working at equestrian events, but have a longstanding passion for landscape and travel photography. You can have a snoop at my work here!

You can find out more about me by taking a look at my LinkedIn.

A geometric patterned border with overlapping triangles in light blue, dark blue, and yellow colors.

Media Work

As well as preparing colleagues to undertake media work, I am also confident as a media spokesperson myself. I have been on live radio and TV, as well as contributing to recorded media pieces which you can see below.

Scientists call for public’s help to discover more about ticks - STV News

Read article
Two women filming a brunette woman smiling outdoors with trees in the background

Tick bites warning as woman waits 29 years for Lyme disease diagnosis - STV News

Read article
A woman being interviewed outdoors by a camera crew, with a woman holding a microphone in front of her, in a park-like setting with trees and a brick structure in the background.

Well-being Garden Weekend promotes the outdoors for health and well-being - Heno S4C

Find out more about event
Pattern of interlocking geometric shapes in blue, yellow, and dark blue on a black background.

What people say about me

  • "Faye is one of the most competent engagement professionals I know. Importantly for us, she is also a lovely person to work with. I (and the team at FoSho) are lucky enough to have been invited to work on a number of projects with Faye and this has provided me with the opportunity to see Faye work with a wide variety of individuals and organisations tackling complex and challenging subjects. Importantly, she is kind, thoughtful and incredibly capable, always striving to build on successes and solve challenges."

    Fynn Elkington, Managing Director of FoSho Studios

  • "At every stage of the process, Faye has consistently shown unwavering commitment to not only the smooth running of the project, but crucially, a dedicated approach to ensure our service users are fully included. Faye has gone to exceptional lengths to be fully inclusive and avoid stigmatising content which demonstrates not just her determination, but a keen sense of detail and awareness of the difficulties faced by people living with a blood-borne virus."

    Peer Support Scotland Team, Terrence Higgins Trust

  • "In an almost 10 year career in Science Communication, I can count on one hand the number of people who are dedicated to creating true positive impact on audiences, colleagues and institutions. Faye is on that list. In the time we have worked together, it has been a true breath of fresh air to see her approach to people management, to community engagement, to ensuring that research is improved through public engagement and that public audiences benefit from academic research."

    Sam Langford, Creative Performer, Producer and Presenter

  • “Engagement work takes many forms, and many people are skilled in different aspects of it. Faye stands out for being ‘the complete package.’ She has a deep and considered commitment to supporting and developing the people around her to produce effective teams. On all the occasions I have worked with her she has not only helped to deliver the plan I had in mind, but has shown how this could be used in ways that were wider, more impactful and more ambitious than I could have anticipated.”

    Professor Ed Hutchinson, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research

  • "Faye has an exceptional talent for bringing together different groups of people and creating a relaxed but productive environment for all to contribute to the goal of the project."

    Cassandra Hugill, CEO, Martingale Foundation

  • "Faye’s drive and determination, coupled with her knowledge of public engagement practice has led to two very fruitful funding applications. My interactions with Faye have always resulted in exciting developments and opportunities for public engagement and increasingly diverse ways to promote our work to an ever-increasing audience, in person and online including local and national media."

    Dr Ben Brennan, Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow

  • "In 2021, I undertook an internship supervised by Faye. Faye has an incredible capacity for building strong relationships with her colleagues. She is open and attentive, and actively seeks feedback and opportunities to grow. For this reason, Faye remains a key mentor of mine. She supported me in searching for a career outside of academia and helped me adapt my academic CV. Her support in applying for jobs helped me secure an incredible role that aligns exactly with my career goals"

    Dr Tia Salter, Senior Professional Development Officer, Royal Society of Biology

  • "More than the technical opportunities I was provided with, Faye has created an amazing atmosphere within the Engagement and Communications Team that allows us all to learn from one another and gain the most out of our work that we can. My time with Faye and her team has made me a more engaged and effective communicator, and has let me grow as a scientist, and I am very grateful to her and all of the extra work she put in to make the project an unforgettable experience.”

    Dr Sarah Walsh, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research