Tamsyn is Director of Evidence at FrameWorks UK. She works to understand how people think about social issues – and what changes those things. An expert in narrative and strategic communications, Tamsyn works with mission-driven organisations across Europe to translate framing research into practice on such issues as health inequality, homelessness, child welfare and access to justice.
Before joining FrameWorks, Tamsyn was a consultant at the FrameWorks Institute, and headed digital and strategic communications at Equally Ours, a network of organisations working to advance equality and human rights. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history and an MA from the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Damian is a facilitator, creative producer and engagement specialist, with extensive experience supporting communities to bring about change.
He has worked extensively in the cultural/creative sector as well as undertaking roles at Welcome Connecting Science and the national innovation foundation, Nesta, helping people with lived experience of health conditions influence and change policy and research. For 11 years he was Head of Arts at Cambridge University Hospitals and he also set up and ran London Arts and Health, campaigning for the role of storytelling and creativity in challenging health inequalities.
As well as joining the PIRC board in 2024, Damian is a trustee of Suffolk Artlink and he is on the board of 64 Million Artists.
Lucy supports and trains organisers and charities on campaigning and media, including with NEON and Sheila McKechnie Foundation.
Her career has focused on working directly with people facing injustice and marginalisation to share their stories to inform and create change.
Lucy also works as a community organiser at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Before joining the Bureau, Lucy led on media and communications at the charity INQUEST for more than seven years. She directly supported families bereaved by deaths in state care, custody and detention to share their stories and challenge the issues arising to prevent future deaths. She also co-created and co-present the INQUEST podcast, Unlawful Killing.
She has a background in journalism, including coediting the print magazine STRIKE!, which platformed radical voices. Lucy is Scottish and is currently based in Hastings.
Becky works in Production Accounts in Film and TV and has previously worked at political publishers Lawrence & Wishart and as a freelance events producer for organisations including the TUC and the Amiel & Melburn Trust.
Becky brings to the PIRC board financial and budgeting understanding, as well as a decade of experience working and volunteering across the not-for-profit sector. Becky has an MA in International Studies from SOAS and is an active member of the Scottish Green Party.
Emmanuelle (she/her) is a Policy and Campaigns Manager at human rights organisation Liberty where she works across policing, protest, surveillance and technology. She has appeared across tv and radio discussing racial justice and non-policing solutions to social issues, and has written for Red Pepper, Gal-dem, and Huck magazine amongst others.
Prior to joining Liberty, Emmanuelle worked in research and policy at Kaleidoscope Trust, advocating for the rights of communities across the globe persecuted because of their sexual orientation and gender identity due to legacies of colonialism. Emmanuelle was a founding member of the Free Black University and a researcher-in-residence at the South London Gallery where she worked with young people on responding to a colonial anthropological archive. She is also a reframing consultant for Runnymede Trust’s racial justice project.
Emmanuelle holds a BA in Anthropology and Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an MA in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice from the University of British Columbia (on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people).
Sally is a Clinical and Community psychologist and CEO of the charity Art Against Knives in London. She is passionate about addressing the intersections of social justice and mental health. She is co-founder of Psychologists for Social Change and the Housing and Mental Health Network. Sally was the Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Community Psychology Section for many years and is Co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Innovative Community & Clinical Psychologies . Outside of work and activism, Sally is committed to nature-based spirituality.