Director and Co-Founder

Henrietta co-founded Hopkins Van Mil, now HVM 21 years ago. She is an expert facilitator, deliberative process designer and social researcher focused on qualitive methods. She finds joy in working collaboratively and with empathy to ensure that every person involved in HVM’s programmes is heard and valued. Her process designs bring about trusted, creative, thoughtful and collaborative citizens’ involvement. She works closely with people across the country, with academics, specialists, policy and decision makers to enable the sensitive, evidence based exploration of challenging and complex issues. Having begun her career in the arts, heritage sector and museums. As a result Henrietta has a particular interest in bringing creativity to engagement processes - as a powerful way of exploring in depth the issues that society finds particularly thorny, difficult and contentious.

Currently Henrietta is leading a significant public dialogues for Sciencewise and the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) on the governance of engineering biology. She is also leading The People’s Forum on the use and governance of Advanced AI Assistants with the Ada Lovelace Institute. This week, she is enjoying diving into some chunky qualitative analysis.

Life includes family, time in France, an opera company and a desire for dance. 

Do get in touch - henrietta@hopkinsvanmil.co.uk. or on LinkedIn.