Ellie is a senior research consultant at The Cynefin Company, where she leads the health and care programme of work designed around the three interrelated areas of patient journeys, workforce experience, and leadership.  Her role involves guiding individuals and organisations looking to harness the power of narrative and lived experience, through the use of the SenseMaker tool and complex facilitation techniques.  Ellie holds an MA in the anthropology of social development and transformation, with a specialism in medical anthropology.

Some of her more recent projects include: identifying drivers of child and early forced marriage with the Women’s Refugee Commission in the Philippines and Zimbabwe; an oral history of Nurses experiences during COVID-19 with the Royal College of Nursing (Northern Ireland and Scotland).  The work currently in development with the growing healthcare team at the Centre is focused on how best to support the healthcare workforce in the years to come.

Ever a proponent of embodied knowledge and exploring the epistemological and ontological possibilities of different modalities of health and healing, Ellie is also a trained massage therapist and yoga teacher.