Max Goodall

By Laura Kenworthy 1min read

For Max Goodall (BA Music 2015-18), departure from Homerton took a little longer than for some. After graduating in 2018 and spending the summer volunteering in Tanzania, he spent nine months working in the Development Office as Communications Associate. At the time, this was a sabbatical role taken on by new graduates, with responsibility for the College’s social media platforms.

"It was good fun being Comms Associate for the year, a great first job and a nice intro to lots of useful stuff - although pretty strange suddenly going from student to staff!"

He continued to sing in the Charter Choir and play in the Homerton Jazz Orchestra (HOJO) while in this intermediate phase of his relationship with the College, before leaving in the summer of 2019.

Since then Max has worked for a public sector consultancy “aiming to help solve complex problems within public services, working mainly on children's services in London." As the consultancy operates remotely, without a permanent office space, his working arrangements remained unchanged by the pandemic and he says his employers “are very good at helping everyone to feel connected and to get to know each other.”

Though he admits “it’s very different from the Homerton Development Office, where everyone’s less than two metres away from each other!”

The pandemic had more of an impact on his musical activities, which he is now resurrecting, playing jazz regularly in a band with Cambridge contemporaries. Recent gigs include the Jazz Café in Camden, and Piano, Smithfield.

"I'm enjoying getting back into gigging post-Covid - things are really getting moving now. London is really the place to be, and there are lots of great opportunities to do some playing."