Florrie Connell

After interning with us in 2025, Florrie rejoins Care City as a Design Researcher in 2026, following her graduation from the London Interdisciplinary School. Her studies took a mixed methods approach to untangling complex problems, often focusing on the experiences of the most marginalised in health, justice and public systems.

She’s best placed where practice meets theory, communities meet systems, and independent thinking meets collaborative work: exactly what she’s found at Care City. Across a number of projects, Florrie works in a hands-on research role covering ethnography, co-design and data analysis, working alongside communities and services in Barking and Dagenham and beyond to shape health and care services.

Before this, Florrie cut her teeth managing restaurants, events and bars, then moved into the charity sector as a project manager and coordinator. From there, she took on roles focused more heavily on support, therapeutic delivery, service design, evaluation and coproduced systems change, eventually returning to education for the BASc in Interdisciplinary Problems and Methods. It was there that she built the practical skills and broader ability to intervene in the systems she’s most passionate about.

Outside of work, you’ll find Florrie walking solo on long hikes, staying up too late reading, swimming in open water, catching one-man theatre shows, or on the dancefloor with friends and family. She loves a strong, milky, lukewarm cup of tea, and firmly does not like ice cream.