Michael works on projects across all of Cordis Bright's sectors. He has assisted local authorities, government agencies, health authorities and not-for-profit providers of social care in an advisory capacity, as well as managing projects and initiatives on their behalf. Michael also has very strong research skills covering a wide range of methodologies, including research design and analysis of large scale quantitative surveys and secondary data, conducting qualitative interviews and focus groups. Michael's recent projects include:

• Structural reviews of several large not-for-profit providers of social care, with a focus on organisational efficiency and future growth
• Identifying potential merger candidates for large not-for-profit providers of social care, including the facilitation of merger talks
• A review of staffing patterns for a large independent provider of older people services, concentrating on cashable efficiencies as a result of the increased deployment of assistive technology
• Several evaluations of national training programmes for non-statutory and statutory staff in early years settings and social work, including stakeholder consultations and conducting Cost-Benefit-Analyses
• Supporting and managing a tender process for the provision and reprovision of services for people with learning disabilities on behalf of a health authority
• Working with independent social care providers on the implementation of the Personalisation agenda, Individual Budgets and Direct Payments, including advice on the establishment of Personal Assistant services
• Organising independent continuing care assessments as part of an agreement on pooled budgets between a local authority and a health authority
• A process and performance review of Individual Budgets for a local authority
• Market analyses informing strategic planning for several not-for-profit organisations

Michael holds a degree in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University and an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from Oxford University. Michael has a background in journalism, having covered issues surrounding education policy, juvenile delinquency and childcare for German television. He also has first-hand experience of working with service users, having spent a year as a Personal Assistant supporting people with physical disabilities.