Evaluation
In addition to the conventional academic peer-review process, other external parties have reviewed and assessed our work. For example, Daisy Schofield, a reporter at The Guardian, and someone who has struggled with speech anxiety for decades, came to Cambridge to investigate our treatment. She was a self-described “lost cause”. She partook in an accelerated version of our programme prior to entering a 2-minute presentation event. Her Guardian article concludes, “Ten days after meeting Macdonald… I’m at Toastmasters again… The room is packed… I speak for a full two minutes without any real difficulty. “It’s a miracle,” I text my partner after I step off stage.”
 

More broadly, our work has received national and international awards, including the Global EdTech Award and the Digital Health Award. International judging panels have noted that our work “sets a gold standard for being evidence-led” and that the “clear identification of a critical student need, backed by published, peer-reviewed research with impressive statistical data, is outstanding.”

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