Current & Past Projects
A closer look at the key projects that define my academic journey, bridging the gap between mimetic violence and disruption strategies.
Racial Harmonisation Strategy to combat race riots in Stoke on Trent circa 2001
Status:
Completed
Investigation Area:
Mimetic violence against asian and white working class communities
Funding:
Stoke on Trent City Council in Partnership with Staffordshire Police, Probation Service and Youth Service.
Stoke on Trent at the time was seeing racial tensions brought about by the distribution of newly entering asylum seekers in densely populated working class communities. A mimetic rivalry showed itself between asian and white communities in a series of racially motivated riots across the five towns.
Through identifying a suitable disruption strategy we deployed multi-agency interventions targeted at predominant influencers across the region whilst establishing a supportive pedagogical programme aimed towards next generational disruption of toxic ideologies to break the mimetic cycle. This was known as the five towns project and commerced through 2003-2005.
It was based on the design cycle of this project that I was entered as fellow into the Institute for Learning.
An adaption of Baker's model for abnormal CAR to apply to social acted unethical practice.
Status:
Completed, 2021
Investigation Area:
Ethical Practices and Good Governance
Funding:
Privately funded
Collaborators:
Baker et al
A re-developed model using Bakers 'Stock market responses to unethical behaviour in organisations: An organizational context model', formulated through a privately funded project, this adaptation has been used in work submitted to different sponsor departments in National Government and advisory work in large multinational FTSE 50 organisations.
The Consumer Duty
Status:
Ongoing
Investigation Area:
Limitations to the Consumer Duty in End-to-End Product delivery
Funding:
TBC
Collaborators:
TBC
The FCA's FG 22/9The Consumer Duty and Consumer Principle was a significant step forward for regulatory policy and Consumer protection across financial services. Although fully rolled out by 2024, we are still seeing evolutionary rollouts in 2026 and as someone with active interest in ethical risk I foresee the Consumer Duty to set the future benchmark for several other regulators in primary sectors and thus am keeping active interest in FCA and FOS communications.
I see this special project as one of the most significant changes in regulatory scrutiny and is as important as those changes brought in by the ECCTA for the ways in which financial organisations must present themselves.
