THE PEOPLE BEHIND SCHOLARWORKS

Meet the team

ScholarWorks brings together commercial curiosity, project leadership and research expertise to help organisations turn complex questions into practical action.

Joe Packham

Founder & Managing Director - PGDip, CMI Mgr

With 20 years leading data and innovation programmes across government and public health, Joe founded ScholarWorks to make high-quality research expertise more accessible to organisations of every size. His work connects ambitious organisations with the talent, guidance and delivery support needed to make progress.

Technical Advisory Panel

Scott Gamble

Technical Advisor, Project Coach and Mentor - AI and Technology Strategy and Adoption

Scott has extensive experience helping companies move from AI pilots to AI-native ways of working. Having developed foundational AI enablement frameworks at ServiceNow, he currently serves as a founding Adoption Strategist at ElevenLabs, driving the deployment and strategic adoption of creative and agentic AI tools.

Oli Newcombe

Technical Advisor, Project Coach and Mentor - Applied Data Science and AI

Oli brings experience of consulting on various applied AI projects across industries, with a speciality in developing early stage proof of concept solutions and guiding them into production. He has worked at Faculty.ai on projects across the private and public sectors and currently works in multiple tech lead, data science and advisory roles in startups and public sector organisations.

Harry Coppock

Technical Advisor - AI Safety and Security

Harry is an AI researcher, Imperial College London PhD graduate, and 10 Downing Street Innovation Fellow with extensive experience bridging academia, government, and industry. Having founded an AI due diligence consultancy evaluating technical capabilities for corporate clients like Pfizer, alongside his current work as a Research Scientist at the UK AI Security Institute and Honorary Lecturer at Imperial, he brings high-level technical evaluation skills and a strong commitment to supporting the next generation of researchers.

Jobie Budd

Technical Advisor, Project Coach and Mentor - Applied Data Science and AI

Jobie is an AI and healthcare research engineer specialising in robust machine learning applications for medical diagnostics and computational imaging. His published works span journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine, and Nature Machine Intelligence, focusing on point-of-care rapid testing, ethical AI evaluation, and large-scale biomedical datasets.

ONE TEAM, MANY DISCIPLINES

Built around the right expertise

Every ScholarWorks project is shaped by the right mix of expertise. We draw on a trusted network of researchers, subject specialists and delivery partners to build teams around the challenge at hand.

Research leads

PhD level researchers who bring rigour, curiosity and fresh thinking to every brief.

Technical Advisors

Commercial and operational specialists who turn research into clear, usable outcomes.

Delivery Leads

Data and innovation leaders, bringing their project management and delivery skills to each project

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