Credentials
Every engagement carries a named, accountable auditor.
Every external deliverable ALC produces carries the named practitioner who led the work. This applies to audit reports, briefing notes, and public-facing publications. The practitioner standard signals professional accountability and provides the auditable trail that procurement functions and audit committees expect.
The named practitioner
Jon-Pierre Jones
Founding Director and Lead Auditor, Athle Labs Co
Jon-Pierre Jones is the Founding Director and Lead Auditor of Athle Labs Co, the specialist independent audit provider for dual career environments in higher education. He leads ALC’s audit engagements and is the named author on its reports.
He is a PhD candidate at Loughborough University London, where his research develops a theory of readiness under fluctuating demand, examining why some elite student athletes sustain university study and elite sport over time while others become increasingly strained under similar demands. This research grounds ALC’s audit method. He also holds a Research Associate position on sport research projects, which is separate from both his doctorate and from ALC.
The practitioner standard
Credentials and method
| Name and role | Jon-Pierre Jones, Founding Director and Lead Auditor, Athle Labs Co. |
|---|---|
| Academic credential | PhD candidate, Loughborough University London. Theoretical contribution: readiness under fluctuating demand. |
| Methodology | Structured athlete consultation protocol. Audit methodology aligned to the Global Internal Audit Standards, with reporting structured to the ISAE 3000 assurance model. |
| Independence and conflicts | All known conflicts disclosed in writing before each engagement, in line with the ALC Independence and Impartiality Policy. |
Grounding
The research the method rests on
ALC’s audit method is grounded in doctoral research on dual career sustainability authored by Jon-Pierre Jones in his individual academic capacity at Loughborough University London. ALC stands on this research and cites it. It does not claim to have conducted the research, and it does not assert ownership of it.
This keeps three bodies of work properly distinct: the doctoral research, the separate Research Associate work, and ALC. The boundary is governed by the ALC Data Provenance Statement, and no data collected under doctoral research ethics enters any ALC repository or audit.