JP has considerable experience in qualitative research, with a specialised interest in leading interviews and facilitations, quantitative data analysis, and conducting both short- and long-term evaluations. These projects have spanned many sectors, in particular education, skills, innovation, and mental health and wellbeing.

Prior to joining dandolo, JP was a Touring Manager in the creative/education industry for many years. In this role, he developed and facilitated workshops for educators in the areas of curriculum, communication and engagement.

Influential work at dandolo:

• Evaluation of an education department’s approach to implementing place-based and collective-impact approaches to address inequity in schools

• Supporting a Commonwealth Working Group to develop an ‘earn while you learn’ training model

• Conducting a long-term evaluation of a high-profile mental health initiative in high schools

• Scoping the needs of schools to identify and support young carers for a state education department

• Conducting interviews and facilitating roundtables in each jurisdiction as inputs into the development of a workforce strategy

• Analysing, researching and developing an understanding of an emerging service-system workforce for a large philanthropic organisation 

• Reviewing a long-standing national youth touring science program

• Developing a prospectus to promote investment in an innovative public health program 

• Developing a strategy to procure software in schools for an education department