Curtis Parfitt-Ford

Hi! I'm Curtis

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About me

I wear many hats: software engineer, student paramedic, activist, tech policy wonk, and even a beanie in the winter. I work for Poteris, a non-profit tech-for-good consultancy.

I'm an Emergency Ambulance Crew with St John Ambulance, and am studying for a pre-registration MSc in Paramedic Science. (Sorry, I can't give you medical advice online!)

I'm beginning to develop a portfolio of research: you can find some of my work on my ORCiD. I'm particularly interested in research relating to health technology or out-of-hospital urgent and emergency care, with a focus on keeping patients in the community for longer.

When you catch me thinking about computers, I'm probably thinking about ethics, policy, health tech, and human-computer interaction. With technology comes power, and power poses huge dangers when misused. To try to leverage that power for good instead, I run Loudspeek, a digital lobbying system for progressive political campaigns in the UK.

This site is open source: the code is on GitHub.

I am a Practitioner Technologist: learn more about my commitment