Hobby Project Work
UK Inquiry Dashboard - 2025 to present
Ever wondered what happens after a public inquiry like Grenfell or Mid Staffordshire? There’s no simple progress bar — so I built one.
The Idea
Public inquiries aim to learn from failure, but their recommendations are buried in long PDF reports. I wanted a clear way to track: what was recommended, what’s been done, and what hasn’t.
What I Did
- Collected inquiry reports from the Wikipedia list of inquiries
- Extracted recommendations into structured, reusable data
Created a new Wikipedia page: UK Public Inquiry RecommendationsUnfortunately removed by moderators, purpose not clear- Built an interactive dashboard to explore the data
See It
Why It Matters
Example: The Manchester Arena Inquiry recommended a new law, with a help of a campaign it became Martyn's Law. Tracking recommendations makes accountability visible.
What's Next?
I'm gathering information on outcomes for the recommendations by researching and gathering publicly accessible information such as news articles or gov website pages.
How can I help?
- Free: You can contribute any links you find via this Google Form
- Donate: You can buy me a hot chocolate via buymeacoffee.com ☕
- Collaborate: You can contribute directly via the public Github repo
Together, we can figure out what has been done about these recommendations.
The Future?
I'd like to explore data patterns, like common themes and recurring root causes.
Bonus
Just as I launched this, the UK government released their own official dashboard. It’s early days, but great to see progress at the official level too.
Cybersecurity in Space industry panel discussion
In collaboration with IISL, I co-organised an online panel discussion to educate the space industry about cybersecurity threat landscape.
The Idea
Organise a panel of speakers to represent "blue team"/corporate security, "red team"/offensive security research and the legal perspective to give a well rounded view about the issues and what can be done to manage them.
Why It Matters
The space industry has historically approached security with the mindset of "security through obscurity". However, this stiffled open source collaboration amongst really proactive engineers who, to be on the safe side would hide their hobby projects. It also resulted in security theatre over genuine security. Education and awareness of what the current threats are allows engineers to secure what is most vulnerable, not just what feels most vulnerable.