Meet Trent

20 years of experience in the public and non-profit sectors, including:

• Holding a range of positions, from 'frontline' to back office & key Senior Leadership positions

• Supporting dozens of organisations across 5 continents

• Expertise in Research and Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

• Award-winning author and presenter

• Expert communicator with government, public, non-profit, and academic audiences internationally.

• Extensively published in peer-reviewed and non-academic settings

• Delivered dozens of talks, workshops, and trainings

• PhD in Social Policy & Master's in Public Administration

Organisations Supported

I have worked for a wide range of organisations, including NGOs, charities, academic organisations, government departments, and more, supporting initiatives to end homelessness, promote LGBTQIA+ rights, improve animal welfare and protection, support disabled children, improve physical and mental health access and outcomes, reduce the educational attainment gap, and much more. Here are just some of the organisations I have supported.

Selection of Publications

Selection of Presentations & Panel Discussions

Systems Reflect Training. Multiple non-profit & local government organisations across the UK (2023-2024)

Wisdoms Listening Exercise Training. Multiple non-profit & local government organisations across the UK (2023-2024)

TransActual’s Transition Access Survey - Trans Health Forum (2022)

Housing First Specialist Roles - Homeless Link webinar (2022)

Barriers and Behavioural Strategies to Adopting a Plant-Based Diet - Plant-Based Physicians UK (2022)

Unjust Food: Causes and Outcomes - Climat Healers (2022)

Veganism and Food Justice - Global VegFest: (2022)

Working together: the homelessness sector’s path beyond COVID - Homeless Link webinar (2021)

Barriers, Motivators & Opportunities for Promoting Sustainable Dietary Change - Various charities internationally (2019-2020)

Why We Eat What We Eat - Victoria & Albert Museum and the Imperial College’s Great Exhibition Road Festival (2019)

Challenges and approaches to achieving appropriate behaviour change around sentience. The University of Oxford & The RSPCA: Sentience - science, policy, and 'real world' applications (2019)

Power, Privilege & Veganism: Building an Inclusive Vegan Community - VegFest UK Intersectionality Summit (2018; 2019)

Promoting Meat Reduction: Struggles & Successes - Keynote at Eat Better Summit, Compassion in World Farming (2018)

Motivators and Barriers for Meat Reduction & Veg*n Promotion - Asia for Animals, Kathmandu (2017)

Promoting Veg*nism: Struggles & Successes. - Conference on Animal Rights in Europe, Vienna (2017)

Meat: Encouraging personal action. Understanding and changing behaviour - Friends of the Earth Basecamp (2017)

Using the Behaviour Change Wheel to Promote Dietary Change. Human Behaviour Change for Life: Exploring Key HBC Frameworks & Principles (2017).

The Vegan Journey: How to Help Yourself and Others Go (and Stay) Vegan. Kent Vegan Festival (2017).

Media mentions & Podcasts

Education

• PhD in Social Policy - University of Kent

• Master's in Public Administration - University of Exeter

• Bachelor's (Honours) in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies - Wesleyan University (2:1)

• Bachelor's (Honours) in Anthrolopgy - Wesleyan University (2:1)

Additional Training

• Happy: Effective Group Facilitation.

• DataCamp: AI Fundamentals; Understanding Data Science; and Understanding Data Visualisation

• OpenEdge: Nonviolent Communication 12-month foundation course

• Animal Think Tank: Kingian Non-Violence Training; Movement Building

• University of Kent Graduate School Training Courses, including: Statistics; STATA; NVivo; Writing Targeted Grant Proposals; Survey Design; Using the Media to Publicise Your Research; Conducting Interviews; and Academic Writing

• University of Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis: Mathematics for Social Scientists; Advanced Survey Data Analysis & Survey Experiments

• University of Kent Master’s-Level Methods of Social Research courses: Design of Social Research; Qualitative Methods

• BTSAP: Moderate-Severe Special Education Certificate

IT & Software

Highly proficient in STATA, SPSS, NVivo, Tableau, Google Platforms, MS Office applications, InForm, Survey Monkey, TypeForm, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Qualtircs, and more.

Proficient with R, Knack, LimeSurvey, and Python.

Testimonials

Trent brings a strong combination of evaluation and people skills to his work, as well as huge amounts of positive energy, Working with him brings a new perspective on old challenges, and new opportunities to build and demonstrate impact.

Alex Fox
Delivery Director at IMPOWER

Working with Trent during my time at Mayday Trust was an absolute joy. He brought such warmth, thoughtfulness, and a genuine passion for making a difference, and quickly became someone the whole team respected and enjoyed working with. Trent helped us find simple, meaningful ways to understand and show our impact, always keeping the voices of the people we supported at the centre. Thanks to his calm leadership and collaborative approach, we began to see data not just as numbers, but as stories and insights that could guide and strengthen our work.

Chandni Radia
Director of Development & External Relations at City Year UK

Alex Smith
Senior Programme Manager at
Housing First England & Homeless Link

I had the pleasure of working on Housing First England research and evaluations at Homeless Link for two years. With a sharp focus on detail and a warm and friendly approach, Trent is brilliant at stakeholder engagement, gathering data and insights and creating readable, engaging reports and resources. I look forward to working together again in the future.

Trent is a pro-active, friendly and supportive colleague. Any organisation working with him can be confident that their impact measurement is in safe hands as he has years of experience building and managing data monitoring systems from scratch.

Jude Wiggins
Development Manager at Safe Passage International

It was edifying working with Dr. Grassian. He managed to complement my work efforts while offering knowledgeable and workable solutions. I thought this work situation was peculiar to he and I but he seemed to work with others just as well. It was truly a pleasure to work as a team with Dr. Grassian.

I have had the pleasure of working with Trent and he is such a thoughtful, meticulous and collaborative facilitator. There are not many facilitators that are able to create spaces where you feel safe to share, safe to not know, and safe to seek out support even with the hardest of topics. Would work with Trent again in a heart beat!

Shashi Ionnides
Community & Employer Engagement Lead at AFK

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Librarian, EAL Teacher & Storyteller