Cara is a data visualisation consultant with an academic background, specialising in helping research teams and data-driven organisations turn their data insights into to clear and compelling visualisations.
After her PhD in Psychology and a spell teaching research methods at Edinburgh Uni, she embarked on a career in psychometrics at the Royal college of Surgeons of Edinburgh, helping surgeons and other healthcare professionals make sense of exam data. A decade later, she set out as an independent data visualisation consultant, to continue building creative dataviz solutions for a range of different organisations. A regular contributor to the NHS OA conference and RMedicine, she enjoys the challenge of helping healthcare professionals create compelling graphs to communicate clearly about their findings.