Rachel Foster
At SHM Rachel oversees projects from inception to delivery. Rachel has worked on public sector projects, for the NHS and the Department of Health, and is now broadening her portfolio to include commercial work. Rachel recently joined SHM after fifteen years as a documentary producer and series producer for the BBC and her television career informs all her work at SHM. Her qualities include proven team-leadership, interviewing skills, relationship building both with individuals and with members of the workforce of large organisations whose staff are inherently wary of the media (the Home Office, the Foreign Office, the police, NHS, asylum seekers, childcare social workers).
As a series producer at the BBC she led teams of researchers and producers to deliver programmes on time and within budget; she has years of experience (working alone or as head of a team) of initiating and analysing rigorous research to produce truthfully representative yet engaging films... In 2000 her BBC-2 series ‘Langan Behind the Lines’ was shortlisted for a BAFTA award. The series looked at life for the ordinary people in Islamic countries where there is tension: Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza. Subject matters for other films and series include: the Immigration Service and asylum seekers (BBC2’s ‘Welcome to Britain’); heroin addicts (‘Looking for Tat’); and Child Protection Social workers and service users (BBC1’s ‘Someone to Watch over Me’). A crucial quality in all her work is the ability to hold to strict ethical codes and complete honesty especially when dealing with people who were not only wary of the media, but also of each other.
Just before joining SHM Rachel co-devised and delivered three workshops in Islamabad and Karachi, commissioned by the Foreign Office as part of their counter-terrorism strategy, on the topic of “Media for Peace”. These were practical training workshops with participants who were from the North West Frontier Territories and SWAT areas of Taliban dominance and instability.
Rachel has a degree in English from Warwick University.
At SHM Rachel oversees projects from inception to delivery. Rachel has worked on public sector projects, for the NHS and the Department of Health, and is now broadening her portfolio to include commercial work. Rachel recently joined SHM after fifteen years as a documentary producer and series producer for the BBC and her television career informs all her work at SHM. Her qualities include proven team-leadership, interviewing skills, relationship building both with individuals and with members of the workforce of large organisations whose staff are inherently wary of the media (the Home Office, the Foreign Office, the police, NHS, asylum seekers, childcare social workers).
As a series producer at the BBC she led teams of researchers and producers to deliver programmes on time and within budget; she has years of experience (working alone or as head of a team) of initiating and analysing rigorous research to produce truthfully representative yet engaging films... In 2000 her BBC-2 series ‘Langan Behind the Lines’ was shortlisted for a BAFTA award. The series looked at life for the ordinary people in Islamic countries where there is tension: Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Gaza. Subject matters for other films and series include: the Immigration Service and asylum seekers (BBC2’s ‘Welcome to Britain’); heroin addicts (‘Looking for Tat’); and Child Protection Social workers and service users (BBC1’s ‘Someone to Watch over Me’). A crucial quality in all her work is the ability to hold to strict ethical codes and complete honesty especially when dealing with people who were not only wary of the media, but also of each other.
Just before joining SHM Rachel co-devised and delivered three workshops in Islamabad and Karachi, commissioned by the Foreign Office as part of their counter-terrorism strategy, on the topic of “Media for Peace”. These were practical training workshops with participants who were from the North West Frontier Territories and SWAT areas of Taliban dominance and instability.
Rachel has a degree in English from Warwick University.
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Rachel Foster
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Henrietta Moore
Maurice Biriotti
Anna Kydd
Alev Zahir
Alexandria Broe
Celia Newman
Chris Paouros
Claire Askam
Erica Toth
Kate Peden
Lauren Baxter
Neil Green
Nigel Shardlow
Paul Gillooly
Polly Woodford
Rachel Foster
Richard Suthers
Rmishka Singh
Rose Dowling
Sarah Tyler
Stephanie Sharro
Steve Potts
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