Dave currently works for Unionlearn, the TUC skills arm where he is national manager of the union learning fund, which is Department of BIS funded but run by the TUC. Unions bid to the fund for projects to improve the skills of their members. Dave worked for 20 years in colleges of FE, running trade union leader education courses before this role. Before that, he was a biochemist and he always had an interest in health and wellbeing.