Claire has extensive teaching and learning experience, and business support, project delivery, and higher education experience.

Claire is the Project Manager of the ERDF Greater Manchester High Growth Network Programme. This fully-funded business growth programme is for companies with high growth potential, and Claire facilitates and delivers many of the session and manages the programme.

Claire is the Programme Director for the Managers2Leaders courses, the highly successful and well-regarded course from the MMU Business School Centre for Enterprise. Claire teaches and projects manages the Managers2Leaders leadership development course, and has developed and successfully launched the new M2L Sales and M2L Digital Marketing courses.

Prior to this, Claire project managed two projects within the Centre for Enterprise; the award-winning £2.5M ERDF Knowledge Action Network project across the North West (the project worked with 214 small companies across the North West, supporting these firms to create 71 and safeguard 61 jobs), and the European multi-partner Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation project.

Claire graduated from Newcastle University in 2002 with a BA (Hons) in Politics, and gained her Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice in 2014.Claire is currently undertaking a PhD in gender, entrepreneurial learning and leadership.