Our staff

Michelle is one half of the CELCIS events team. Her main role is to coordinate and manage our events, seminar and conference programme. Michelle helps us deliver informative, relevant and creative events for anything from 40-400 delegates, covering a wide range of specialist themes for all of those people working in the looked after children's sector. Michelle has an extensive shoe collection, loves a good book, a good chat and good times with her family.

Mihaela came to work in Scotland via her homeland of Romania, and Vienna, and she brings a decade's experience working on policy and research projects with Save the Children and the Agency for Fundamental Rights. At CELCIS she will support the Neglect Programme by developing effective data and empirical evidence systems to measure progress. She's been blown away by the friendliness of Glaswegians, and cant wait to explore more of Scotland, but she won't be inviting new friends for dinner - she literally can't boil an egg.

Moyra worked for many years as a social worker, residential practitioner and manager, and in therapeutic work with traumatised children and their families. Her research interests include hearing the voices of disabled children and looked after children through creative activities and projects. Since 2005, Moyra has worked along with survivors of institutional abuse and other stakeholders to develop An Action Plan on Justice for Victims of Historical Abuse of Children in Care. More recently she has worked as a music therapist, and is the CELCIS songbird. Away from work she enjoys tap dancing, music, gardening and backpacking.

Nicola brings years of experience to her PA role from early days working in London, for the NHS in Scotland and the HSE in Ireland. She's known to family, friends and colleagues as 'Organised Baxter' for good reason. As PA to the 6-strong CELCIS management team, Nicola keeps them ticking over like a well-oiled machine, and leaves them in no doubt who's really in charge. As a yoga teacher and practitioner, Nicola runs two classes a week, including one at CELCIS where she helps fellow colleagues benefit from a beginner?s practise.

Using principles of co-production to engage people in service design has been a focus of Paul's work across a number of roles, including at the Life Changes Trust, the Prince's Trust, and RBS. At CELCIS, Paul promotes the use of child-centred co-production, participation and engagement work across the sector and internally, and helps to maintain valuable stakeholder relationships. Outside of work Paul enjoys helping people get into music and creativity, despite having no musical talent of his own to speak of!