Meet The Team
Aderyn Consulting is a small but perfectly formed team whose work spans consultancy, training & education and advocacy. We have experience working in a wide range of industries, including news and commercial media, book publishing, technology and engineering, and the third sector.
Consultants
Alison Gow
Alison Gow is a journalist, media consultant and editorial expert who has worked in the UK press for more than 30 years, editing news brands including The Daily Post, WalesOnline and Wales on Sunday. While at Reach plc, the UK’s largest news publisher, her roles included Innovation Editor, and Audience and Content Director for Audio and Video, engaging newsrooms and promoting a culture of digital storytelling and customer focus.
She is a Fellow and former President of the Society of Editors, Trustee of the Public Interest News Foundation and The Journalists’ Charity, and committee member of Women in Journalism. She has an MSc in Editorial Leadership from the University of Central Lancashire, where she also co-leads the Journalism Leaders professional development training programme for senior editorial managers.
Glyn Mottershead
Glyn Mottershead is a journalist, researcher, trainer and educator with 30 years experience in the media industry. He has trained generations of young journalists in digital and data literacy skills at two of the UK’s leading postgraduate training schools. He also developed the first joint honours computer science and journalism MSc programme in the UK. As a trainer, he has worked with specialist newsrooms to help staff develop their data skills, as well as helping the University of Tirana to set up and deliver a data journalism programme. His expertise in web scraping and data analysis underpinned a major investigation into how the UK government was blocking FOI requests by journalists.
Glyn has an MSc in Elearning Technologies and a CertEd in Post-Compulsory Education and Training. He is the co-author of The 21st Century Handbook and has written journal articles and book chapters on using social media analysis to understand communications between organisations, and how bad actors use social media.
Suw Charman-Anderson
Suw Charman-Anderson is a writer, campaigner and media consultant. As one of the UK’s social media pioneers, Suw has worked with clients worldwide in the media, technology, and banking sectors. As a freelance journalist, she has written about social media, technology and publishing for The Guardian, CIO Magazine and Forbes amongst others.
In 2009, she founded Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), which raises women’s profiles and creates new role models to encourage girls and women to study and pursue careers in STEM. In 2005, she co-founded the Open Rights Group, a digital rights campaigning group. As its first Executive Director, she prepared the organisation’s response to the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property, and gave evidence on digital rights management to the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group.
Advisors
Kevin Anderson
Kevin Anderson is a media leader and innovator with a quarter-century of experience working for and with the world’s largest media brands including the BBC, The Guardian, Reach, NPR/PBS and CNN International as a journalist, editorial executive, product director and consultant. He has operated at the frontier of digital media for decades, helping news organisations and brands navigate change and seize opportunities with digital media products including podcasts, data journalism, social media and mobile apps. He has an MSc in Innovation Management and Leadership from the University of York.