Our team

Ian is a former service user and Birthlink director of over 10 years and a trusted provider of people solutions across the Voluntary, Public and Private Sectors in Scotland. His career began in employee benefits before progressing into executive recruitment and career management and ultimately on to corporate sustainability and business transformation.  Ian has a passion for cross -sector collaboration and has worked at the interface of all three to help build capacity through business skills and resource transfer.

Joined September 2020. Linda is a senior manager whose work in education spans 30 years and includes university, college and community settings. Her commitment stems from the belief that education changes lives. Skilled in strategic development, policy, planning, collaborations and mergers. She also has lived experience of adoption.

Alasdair is a Teaching Fellow at the Strathclyde Institute for Genealogical Studies (SIGS) at the University of Strathclyde and has a passion for helping individuals reconnect with their family and explore their ancestry. He specialises in the use of DNA for genealogical research (including adoption and unknown parentage). He is an administrator of the Scottish DNA Project and a member of the Register of Qualified Genealogists (RQG).

Gaynor has a passion for rights:  human rights, records access rights, women’s rights and radicalising and transforming systems and processes to gold standard to support the most vulnerable and marginalised in society.  She is skilled in boundary spanning, business transformation, performance management, policy design and implementation, programme management, and research all areas of expertise. Gaynor has thirty years of experience working across the public, private and third sector.  Gaynor is Chair of Social Work Scotland’s Historic Abuse Subgroup – a Scottish forum to exert, share and develop specialist knowledge and understanding of the historic abuse of children with care experience in Scotland, including those migrated overseas. The intention of this group is to radicalise and transform legislation, policy and practice through published research and developing gold standards. 

Suzanne has worked for a Local Authority since 2014 in a variety of different posts and has been the Records Manager since 2018.  A large part of her work is to support Social Work Services maintain their historic records and she deals with requests from the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.  She is passionate about good records management practices, ensuring access to records, both now and in the future and ensuring compliance with data protection legislation.  Suzanne undertakes the role of Data Protection Officer for Birthlink.

Alasdair is a Teaching Fellow at the Strathclyde Institute for Genealogical Studies (SIGS) at the University of Strathclyde and has a passion for helping individuals reconnect with their family and explore their ancestry. He specialises in the use of DNA for genealogical research (including adoption and unknown parentage). He is an administrator of the Scottish DNA Project and a member of the Register of Qualified Genealogists (RQG).

Gaynor has a passion for rights:  human rights, records access rights, women’s rights and radicalising and transforming systems and processes to gold standard to support the most vulnerable and marginalised in society.  She is skilled in boundary spanning, business transformation, performance management, policy design and implementation, programme management, and research all areas of expertise. Gaynor has thirty years of experience working across the public, private and third sector.  Gaynor is Chair of Social Work Scotland’s Historic Abuse Subgroup – a Scottish forum to exert, share and develop specialist knowledge and understanding of the historic abuse of children with care experience in Scotland, including those migrated overseas. The intention of this group is to radicalise and transform legislation, policy and practice through published research and developing gold standards. 

Suzanne has worked for a Local Authority since 2014 in a variety of different posts and has been the Records Manager since 2018.  A large part of her work is to support Social Work Services maintain their historic records and she deals with requests from the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.  She is passionate about good records management practices, ensuring access to records, both now and in the future and ensuring compliance with data protection legislation.  Suzanne undertakes the role of Data Protection Officer for Birthlink.