Thyra Hawkes

Creating detailed catalogue records, including linking physical samples/specimens to existing physical records and creating digital records of these where none currently exist. Performing quality assurance to ensure data recorded is clean, accurate, and adheres to relevant standards, as advised by experts. Identifying and creating data packages to facilitate the deposition of data with the Heritage Science Data Service.

HSDS Data Cataloguer - Historic England

(2026-03)

• Creating detailed catalogue records, including linking physical samples/specimens to existing physical records and creating digital records of these where none currently exist.
• Performing quality assurance to ensure data recorded is clean, accurate, and adheres to relevant standards, as advised by experts.
• Identifying and creating data packages to facilitate the deposition of data with the Heritage Science Data Service.
• Preparing appropriate metadata in collaboration with the project team and relevant scientists.
• Making recommendations for digitisation of records.

Assessments and Tuition Administrator - British Dyslexia Association

(2025-09 - 2026-03)

• Coordinated assessment and tuition bookings, managing high-volume scheduling, payments, and documentation with strong organisational discipline and precise record-keeping.
• Handled confidential learner information and financial data securely, ensuring compliance with GDPR and internal governance standards.
• Liaised professionally with assessors, tutors, and clients, resolving queries efficiently and communicating complex information clearly and sensitively.
• Responsible for setting up a new tuition platform, liaising with developers, tutors and stakeholders.

Collections Data Officer - Historic Royal Palaces

(2023-10 - 2025-09)

• Delivered very high record cleaning volumes against demanding deadlines and supporting the implementation of the new CI+ Collections Management System (CMS), ensuring GDPR compliance and critical field population.
• Cataloguing and adding new acquisitions to CMS, ensuring accuracy and accessibility.
• Authoring and publishing Object of the Month articles, enhancing organisational engagement with our collections.
• Aided conservation teams, including cleaning of books & Queen Charlotte’s cottage at Kew, handling and transport of delicate artifacts, including tapestries, furniture, and objects, and assisted preventative conservation team with filming productions.
• Attendance at a curator’s meeting with RCT on making collections more inclusive.

Facilities Assistant - National Trust

(2023-07 - 2023-09)

• Ensuring the setting is clean and inviting for the next day’s visitors to ensure they can enjoy the historic environment.

Conservation Assessor - West Horsley Place

(2022-06 - 2023-12)

• Volunteering at West Horsley Place completing conservation condition assessments and learning about object handling.
• Part of a building recording team, measuring and spotting discrepancies or quirks that gave us more information about the building, its history and how best to conserve it.
• Trained in inventories of objects that had not been previously found or accessioned.

Supervisory Assistant and LSA - Frogmore Infant School

(2021-11 - 2023-10)

• Assisting teaching staff in the care and education of children, aged 4-7.

Executive Aide - Animal Physiotherapy Ltd

(2020-10 - 2022-07)

• Updated website pages, enhancing accessibility and user engagement.
• Authored and published blogs, driving audience engagement and brand visibility.
• Handled insurance claims, ensuring timely processing and resolution and other administrative documentation tasks.
• Created and launched a podcast, expanding content reach and audience engagement.
• Uploaded and optimised videos for YouTube, increasing visibility and impact.

Data Analyst (Adult Social Care) - Surrey County Council

(2014-08 - 2020-10)

• Managed and authored statutory returns and regular reporting deliverables, ensuring strict compliance and data accuracy.
• Produced analytical reports on Delayed Transfers of Care, hospital episodes, and Surrey Heath area trends.
• Oversaw the transition to a new data collection system, leading testing, user guide development, and practitioner training.

Information Quality Assistant (Adult Social Care) - Surrey County Council

(2013-09 - 2014-08)

• Coached practitioners in data hygiene and best practice, correcting database errors, and changing attitudes and culture to understand their critical part in the organisation’s data-driven management of resources and services.
• Presented information quality (IQ) summaries for the East region at monthly management meetings, providing strategic insights.
• Proactively drove major data quality improvements, including focusing on reducing error backlog from over 2,000 to just 200 within a year - the most improved region in the organisation.

Head of Statistics and Mapping - Methodist Church

(2011-10 - 2013-09)

• Transformed analysis and reporting to be more data-focused and statistically robust, improving accuracy and efficiency.
• Optimised ArcGIS mapping tools to drive targeted funding and strategic initiatives through geographic analytical reports.
• Led an organisation-wide cultural shift towards data literacy, designing and implementing focus groups and forums to embed a data-driven decision-making mindset. Effectively demonstrated the tangible benefits of accurate data capture and recording, influencing stakeholders to adopt improved practices that drive measurable organisational impact.
• Revamped processes and questionnaires to increase consistency and utility of the results, as well as to enhance equality and diversity outcomes as a specific focus area.
• Advised senior leadership with data-backed recommendations, shaping key strategies and application of constrained resources.

Statistics Officer - Ministry of Justice

(2009-01 - 2011-10)

• Authored official government statistics reports, ensuring accuracy and reliability in published National Statistics.
• Extracted and analysed large data sets using SAS, SQL, and Excel to uncover insights on prison population trends and youth offending patterns.
• Developed dashboards to track and visualize criminal justice trends, shaping predictions and policy discussions.
• Provided expert recommendations on youth offending attributes, influencing further statistical analysis and policy decisions.
• Built strong stakeholder relationships with the Youth Justice Board and Department for Education, driving collaborative initiatives.
• Data security champion, implementing risk management strategies and educating colleagues on best practices to protect sensitive data and generally improve data literacy and best practices in data management and presentation.

MA - Preventative Conservation (2026-10)

Ordinary Certificate - Royal Statistics Society

2:1 Psychology BSc (hons) - Psychology

A-Levels - Psychology (B), Theatre Studies (B), Health & Social Care (B)

AS-Levels - Psychology (B), Theatre Studies (B), Health & Social Care (B), French (D)

GCSEs - Humanities (A*), French (A), Religious Education (A*), Sociology (A), English Language (A), Science 1 (A), Science 2 (A), German (B), Mathematics (B), English L