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Employer Name

National Centre for Rural Health and Care

Biography

Jessica is a specialist in rural intelligence, rural futures and place based work, operating at the intersection of policy, data and lived experience. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre for Rural Health and Care, which she helped to establish in 2016, supporting its portfolio of work aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of rural communities. Jessica is also a Project Manager at Rose Regeneration, where she leads a wide range of social, economic and environmental projects across the UK for public, private and voluntary sector organisations. Alongside this, she runs Rural Insights, a platform providing independent, evidence based intelligence to help organisations navigate rural risk, unlock opportunity and make confident, future focused decisions. She also serves as a trustee at Cambridgeshire ACRE, a rural charity covering Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.