Florrie Connell

Joining as a summer intern from the London Interdisciplinary School, Florrie works on the Connect project drawing together learning from the first year of delivery and developing a practical blueprint of the Community Innovation Partnership model. This project aims to get to the root of the effective working relationship between Care City, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and the VCSFE sector and explore not just the essential elements of what’s already happening, but how and if this could be applied in broader geographic and sociopolitical contexts. 

After cutting her teeth managing restaurants, events and bars, Florrie transferred her skills into the charity sector. Starting as a project manager and coordinator she then moved into roles focused more heavily on support, therapeutic delivery, service design, evaluation and coproduced systems change, eventually leading her back to school. 

Whilst studying on the BASc in Interdisciplinary Problems and Methods, Florrie has been able to focus on the issues she’s most passionate about, running research projects exploring potential interventions to improve health and prison systems for those most affected by them. 

In her free time you can find Florrie walking solo on long hikes, staying up too late reading books, swimming in the open water, catching one man theatre shows and hitting up dancefloors with her friends and family. She loves strong, milky lukewarm tea and doesn’t like ice cream.