Get to know the HR experts behind Brightmine

Sheila Attwood
Senior Content Manager, Data and HR Insights, Brightmine

Sheila leads the team that is responsible for the data and market insights content on Brightmine, including the employer practice surveys, webinars and podcasts, and reward content.

Sheila holds a BA in geography. She has almost 30 years’ experience of working in a research and editorial capacity in a publishing environment, with a focus on the labour market, reward, industrial relations and HR practice.

Sheila is an expert on company pay awards and is regularly called upon to appear in the broadcast and print media to comment on the level of increase in pay rates.

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Ronelle (Elle) Barreto
International Legal Editor, Brightmine

Elle focuses on editing the International country guides, collaborating with local lawyers to provide updates and insights into the legislation for different jurisdictions.

Elle is a former practicing employment law attorney with over 20 years’ experience in the public, corporate and political sectors in both South Africa and the UK. Before joining Brightmine, she served as a litigation attorney, senior manager for KPMG’s employment law advisory practice, parliamentary researcher (labour and public enterprises) and HR manager. In addition to a legal career, Elle has more than five years’ experience in academic research focusing on trends in the legal framework around precarious forms of work.

Elle holds a PhD in Business and Law (UK), Masters in Research in Business Management (UK), Masters in Employment Law (South Africa), Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (South Africa), and BA in Law and Industrial Psychology (South Africa).

Amy Bosley
HR Data Insights Analyst, Brightmine

Amy works on survey design and data collection methods, as well as producing reports to communicate research insights on a range of HR topics. She has worked as a research professional since 2018, with a particular focus on HR practice and employment and skills. Her research interests include devolution of HR to line managers and employee wellbeing.

Before working in research, Amy worked as an HR practitioner across the private, public and third sectors. She holds a master’s degree in human resource management, with her master’s research focusing on the role of line managers in managing workplace diversity as well as the impact of zero-hours contracts on employers and employees.

Victoria Burrow
Head of Content, Brightmine

Victoria leads the Brightmine UK content team, focusing on the development of content to meet the ever-changing challenges of the Brightmine audience.

With over 20 years of commercial and legal publishing experience, Victoria’s previous positions include heading up the content acquisition and licensing & partnerships teams at ISI Emerging Markets, as well as content and editorial leadership roles at LexisNexis Legal and Professional. Victoria holds an LLB (Hons) Law degree from Kings College, London.

Rocio Carracedo Lopez
International Legal Editor, Brightmine

Ro has 10 years’ experience as a researcher, writer and editor in multi-jurisdictional employment law. In her role as an International legal editor at Brightmine she manages, edits and publishes a large portfolio of international guides and leads the rolling out of new initiatives to enhance the guides.

Prior to joining Brightmine, Ro held a number of roles writing content on HR and employment law including country comparative reports, eBooks, whitepapers, top tips, case analysis, news reports and FAQs. Ro has a law degree (LLB) from the University of Exeter. As part of her degree, she studied at the University of Deusto, Bilbao. She also has an MA (LLM) in European legal studies from the University of Bristol.

Ro speaks fluent Spanish and conversational French.

Lilia Dangi
Legal Editor, Brightmine

Lilia joined the Employment Law and Compliance team as a Legal Editor in March 2025.

Lilia has over 10 years’ experience in HR, with a strong background in employment law, compliance, and governance. She has worked across major organisations including Deloitte, Santander, and Unilever, advising on complex employee relations matters, immigration and change management.

Lilia also brings experience as a CIPD tutor, delivering modules on employment law and workforce planning. She holds a Law degree, a Law Masters in Corporate Governance, and is a certified Company Secretary and CIPD Associate.

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Bar Huberman
Content manager, HR strategy and practice, Brightmine

Bar is a former solicitor with more than 18 years’ experience focused on serving the needs of businesses and HR professionals. She leads the HR strategy and practice team, which focuses on developing content that meets the priorities of HR professionals in strategic roles. Bar’s team works with leading experts in their field to shape practical content that helps organisations become an employer of choice, as well as guidance to train line managers in people skills.

Prior to joining Brightmine, Bar was a solicitor at a leading firm in Brighton, and she has an LLB in Law and French. Bar is also chair of the board of trustees of the charity Embracing Arts.

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Laura Kimpton
HR Strategy and Practice Editor, Brightmine

Laura joined Brightmine in 2013 as the editorial team’s assistant editor and is now an HR strategy and practice editor having worked on HR and employment law content for the past 10 years. She focuses on Brightmine strategic content offering and mainly works on the Leading practice, Training and How to guides.

Laura holds a BA in Culture, Media and Communication from the University of Surrey and an employment law diploma from DLA Piper. Prior to joining Brightmine, Laura worked in the production department at Haymarket Media Group across various magazines.

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Hannah Mason
HR Data Insights Analyst, Brightmine

Hannah joined Brightmine as a HR data insights analyst following four years working in research and analytics in the Civil Service. She works on the development and delivery of surveys covering a variety of HR topics. These surveys provide data for both the Benchmarking – HR metrics tool, as well as survey analysis reports.

Before joining Brightmine, she worked at the Office for National Statistics as a senior social researcher working on the development of a variety of surveys, data analysis and publications, focusing on topical issues facing society including the COVID-19 pandemic. Hannah holds a BSc in Psychology.

Susie Munro
Senior Legal Editor, Brightmine

Susie has over 20 years’ experience as a solicitor, writer and legal editor. She is responsible for the Brightmine How to guides and FAQs and also works on the Employment law cases.

Susie joined the Brightmine editorial team in 2009 having previously worked for Age Concern England, where she advised on and wrote about age discrimination and mandatory retirement.

After obtaining an LLB in law from Sussex University, then completing the Legal Practice Course at Bournemouth University, Susie qualified as a solicitor in 2004. She specialised in employment law, working in private practice for a firm in Birmingham.

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Vernujaa Nagandiram
HR Data Insights Analyst, Brightmine

Vernujaa works on the development and analysis of surveys covering a wide range of HR topics that contribute to Brightmine’s insight reports and benchmarking content.

Before joining Brightmine, Vernujaa worked in the NHS as a hepatology assistant practitioner, where she led performance audits, quality improvement initiatives and helped establish one of the UK’s first fibroscan clinics to integrate psychological support. She also contributed to public health research which was published in the Journal of Hepatology and presented at the European Association for the Study of the Liver.

Vernujaa is currently completing an MSc in International Human Resource Management at Queen Mary University of London and holds a BSc in Psychology from King’s College London.

Zeba Sayed
Senior Legal Editor, Brightmine

Zeba is a former practicing employment solicitor with more than 17 years’ experience in employment law.

Zeba joined Brightmine in 2017 and is a senior legal editor in the employment law and compliance team. In this role, she is responsible for content across Policies and procedures, Letters and forms and Contract clauses. She is also responsible for ensuring that allocated chapters of the employment law guide are kept updated. She has a special interest in the implications of AI in the employment field.

Zeba holds a degree in Law and completed her LPC at the College of Law in Chester. Prior to joining Brightmine, Zeba was an associate solicitor at Lyons Davidson Solicitors in the London office. She advised both individuals and employers on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters and delivered training to clients nationally. Zeba has also worked in conjunction with Acas London to deliver training on their behalf. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.

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Robert Shore
HR Markets Insights Editor, Brightmine

Robert has over 20 years’ experience of publishing and journalism. At Brightmine he creates and commissions content for webinars and podcasts and for the Commentary and insights tool.

He has a Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Law. He was formerly an International employment law editor at Brightmine, and prior to that worked as an arts journalist.

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Stephen Simpson
Principal Editor – Employment Law and Compliance, Brightmine

Stephen is a principal editor who has worked on the Brightmine employment law and leading practice resources for over 20 years. After growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, he trained as a solicitor in England in the 1990s but soon moved into legal publishing. He was among the first recruits to Brightmine in the year before it was launched as XpertHR in 2002.

Stephen has worked on a wide range of employment law and leading practice resources, including overseeing the creation and expansion of the HR templates resource types (Policies and procedures, Letters and forms, and Contract clauses). He has written up over 1,000 reports on employment law cases and created practical guidance on a range of HR issues for the Commentary & insights tool. He also had a stint working on Personnel Today.

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