Dr Anne-Marie Barron is a Director of Leigh & Barron Consulting Ltd. She is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Anne-Marie co-founded Leigh & Barron Consulting Ltd following a successful academic career. Her PhD investigated the impact of social interaction on learning and cognitive achievement, and she held post doctoral Research Fellowships at the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield. Anne-Marie is co-author with Professor Simon Holdaway of a book based a Home Office funded project, Resigners? The Experience of Black and Asian Police Officers, which has been published by Macmillan.
Anne-Marie Barron is a project manager and lead consultant on a number of projects. She led a Department of Health initiative to produce competences for Research Ethics Committees. This work changed the process of the ethical review in this area and was used until it was superseded by the implementation of the European Union Directive on ‘Good Clinical Practice in the conduct of clinical trials on medicinal products for human use’ in 2004.
More recently Anne-Marie has been coordinating a number of projects incorporating sector analysis (often known as occupational mapping). This involves conducting original research and consolidating existing information from a variety of sources, eg sector organisations, national statistics and practitioners. Using this information a sector can position itself within the national economic framework and develop strategies for building and branding its products and services. She recently completed an analysis of the publishing sector that looked at all aspects of publishing: books, magazines, newspapers and journals, and led the sector analysis phase of the Supply Chain Management and International Trade & Services Project.
Working for Skills for Health (the Sector Skills Council for Health, funded by the Department for Employment & Skills and the Department of Health), Anne-Marie worked on projects to produce competence frameworks for those working with Children and Older People. She is currently producing competences for practitioners working with people with neurological conditions, and is also working on the project to produce competences for Endoscopy. Anne-Marie worked on the project to produce the new Management Standards that were revised and launched in 2004.