As an independent consultant, I specialise in designing the future of adult, work-based, and lifelong education. I partner with employers, education providers and awarding bodies to design and optimise high-stakes regulated qualifications, professional certifications, and accreditation frameworks. I also support organisations who are seeking to deliver regulated qualifications.
My consulting expertise is bolstered by recent degrees in gerontology and educational leadership as well as professional experience in commercial and digital law, psychometrics, strategic quality management, and business ownership. This brings uncompromising educational rigour and commercial realism to projects in complex, regulated, or innovation-led environments.
Since 2015, I have provided consultancy to trailblazing organisations including Squared Online, Google’s award-winning digital marketing and leadership programme powered by AVADO Learning; the Chartered Institute of Marketing; the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives; The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education; and numerous awarding bodies, further education colleges and independent training providers.
Beyond this, I design progressive inclusion and wellbeing evaluation frameworks, and contribute to multiple AI in education working groups to help clients navigate pressing technological challenges, especially for older learners.
Parallel Pursuits:
- Interdisciplinary Research: I am an emerging practitioner-researcher at the intersections of educational leadership, gerontology, lifelong learning and cultural heritage. My MSc research on age-responsive patient education received the Hazel Muras-Osborn prize in gerontology, and was presented at the Early Researchers in Ageing conference in Oxford, 2026.
- Peer Review: I review articles for the Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME), supporting dialogue between research and practice in digital learning.
- Publishing: I serve on the editorial board of Leadership Connected – an independent academic publication dedicated to bridging research and practice in educational leadership.
- International Partnerships: With trilingual skills in English, French and German, I am actively building strategic partnerships that bridge international perspectives in gerontology, education and heritage.
If you have a defined initiative or other concrete proposal that falls within my scope, please reach out:
📬 hi@clarechambers.org
Please note: I’m neither the novelist nor the professor of political philosophy, who share my name!