Staff & Associates
DHA has a multi-disciplinary team comprising policy, media and communications professionals. We also draw on a range of associates – from designers and printers, to senior journalists and policy experts – using their specialist skills and experience to add value to the work we do.
Staff
Daniel Harris
Managing Director. Daniel is a public sector communications professional with nearly twenty years' experience at senior levels of central and local Government and the not-for-profit sector.
Daniel has led numerous initiatives helping government and the public sector to transform policy and bring their services closer to the public. On equalities, international development, democracy, human rights, the arts, the role of civil society, family policy - and in many other areas - Daniel has helped organisations create strategies and communications that deliver real change - winning new resources, improving legislation and shaping the public discourse.
Daniel set up DHA in 2000 and has since then led the organisation's innovative communications work on behalf of Government departments, major national agencies including the Arts Council England, the Audit Commission, the Association of British Orchestras, the Charity Commission, NHS Direct, the Equal Opportunities Commission, think tanks, campaigners and charities including Scope, Help the Aged, and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
He also advises Governments in developing countries creating and delivering health and education communications.
daniel@dhacommunications.co.uk
Telephone: 020 7793 4038
Jonathan Flinn
Director of Communications. Jon is a creative thinker and a highly experienced media professional. He spent ten years working on daily newspapers and has worked as a public sector communications specialist since 1996. He manages DHA’s Liverpool office and leads on many key contracts.
Telephone: 0151 709 0505
Jim Minton
Head of Strategy.
Jim leads DHA's development and strategy delivery across a broad range policy areas, including the voluntary sector, social innovation, crime, policing and community safety, and works with a wide range of national and international clients. In 2009 he was recruited to the UK Government Stabilisation Unit’s Deployable Civilian Expert (DCE) cadre, and has experience of leading communications inputs for development projects in Nigeria, Zimbabwe and for the United Nations Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation. He is an experienced trainer and facilitator across all aspects of communications strategy.
Before joining DHA, Jim was a senior civil servant in the Home Office where he headed up communications for first immigration, then crime and policing. Previously Jim led communications and campaigns for the drinks industry social responsibility body The Portman Group, having earlier held senior voluntary sector marketing and communications roles at Centrepoint and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations.
Jim has a wealth of non-profit and commercial communications and marketing experience, and has an MBA from London Business School where he is chair of GRIT, the School's alumni voluntary sector forum. He lives in East London and is Chair of Governors at a local community special school.
Telephone: 0207 793 4013
Melissa Milner
Head of Media and Campaigns. Melissa has more than five years’ experience in communications and a post-graduate qualification in public relations. She is a skilled communicator and strategic thinker and leads on a number of key health and social care, arts and housing projects. She has managed several successful media campaigns and also regularly produces reports and policy briefings for clients.
melissa@dhacommunications.co.uk
Telephone: 020 7793 4035
Tamsin Cox
Head of Policy and Research. Tamsin has worked in the cultural sector and in cultural research for a number of years, in public policy and resource development. She is an experienced public funding negotiator with a range of successful bidding and project management experiences. Tamsin is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. Publications include Creating an Impact: Liverpool’s experience as European Capital of Culture, available at http://bit.ly/cWo5jk.
tamsin@dhacommunications.co.uk
Telephone: 0151 709 0505
David Casey
Designer. Dave is a highly talented and creative graphic designer. He previously worked alongside leading design specialists in the North West, including Nonconform and USP Creative.
He delivers on a wide range of design projects including branding, design for print and web.
Dave is the design lead on a number of DHA’s key housing, health and arts contracts, he strives to create bespoke, sustainable and engaging design solutions.
Telephone: 0151 709 0505
Jackie Humphreys
Office Manager. Jackie has more than 30 years' administrative experience in public and community-based organisations. She has organised conferences, events and seminars and is also an experienced researcher, providing up-to-date information for a wide range of projects and initiatives.
Telephone: 0151 709 0505
Associates
Caroline Slocock
Caroline is the Director of Civil Exchange, a new “link tank” that aims to help the government and the voluntary sector work better together. Civil Exchange is currently working jointly with DHA on a number of projects, including supporting a new Panel on the Independence of the Voluntary Sector.
Caroline has over twenty-five years experience in policy development, management change and communications in the public and voluntary sectors. As Chief Executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission between 2002 and 2007 and then Chief Executive of Refugee and Migrant Justice until 2010, she successfully campaigned for better rights for women, families and refugees.
Her experience of policy and operational development at the highest levels in government includes 9 years at the Treasury, a spell as Private Secretary for Home Affairs to two Prime Ministers and a period at the Department of Education and Skills, where she expanded and improved childcare in partnership with the voluntary sector.
Dawn Hart
Dawn is an independent consultant within the public and not for profit sectors. She has a wide range of skills including evaluation, training and coaching. Her areas of expertise are around criminal justice, community safety, young people and participation.
Dawn’s background has covered a range of roles within the public sector including policy development work within the drugs field, establishing and managing a community based education project across three south London boroughs, the role of Safer Cities Co-ordinator and health promotion work.
Her recent consultancy projects include: curriculum advice to the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) on a key leadership course, evaluation of a prison based project for young people and evaluation of a community safety programme. She had a reputation of approaching all work with endless patience.
She has been a school governor for the last 7 years.
Managing Director, Daniel running in the London 2010 Marathon
