Claire joined ISE as Head of Insights in April 2025. Working closely with Stephen Isherwood, Claire is responsible for developing ISE’s labour market intelligence and thought leadership within the emerging talent market. She manages ISE’s research and analysis activities, including the two core ISE annual surveys (Student Recruitment Survey and Student Development Survey). She works closely with ISE members and stakeholders to identify knowledge needs and with ISE Solution Provider partners to deliver co-created research activities.

Claire is also a Research Fellow in education and labour market economics at the UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities where she specialises in education to work transitions, including early careers recruitment, social mobility, people analytics and diversity data. She has over ten years’ experience building data-led research collaborations with large UK employers including building an ‘early careers recruitment data hub’ containing detailed job application and EDI data on over 2.5 million ‘entry-level’ job applicants – the largest research data resource of its kind.

Prior to joining ISE and UCL, Claire held corporate training and senior leadership roles at BPP meeting the education and training needs of large employers and aspiring young professionals in the financial sector. This included preparing students for entering professional careers (leading the design and delivery of degree programmes) and enabling employers to develop early talent (graduate training programmes and leading portfolios of professional qualifications). Claire started her career working in Corporate Finance at EY as a qualified Chartered Accountant specialising in financial due diligence.