Experience

RAND Europe

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Research Leader (Home Affairs and Social Policy)

  • Sep 2022 - Present

  Main responsibilities: developing new work and building external relationships, overseeing and contributing to the delivery of a portfolio of research, providing intellectual leadership and methodological and subject matter expertise, contributing to team management and promoting researchers' professional development. Selected projects: • Peer Review of UNICEF's evaluation function, for the OECD DAC Network on Development Evaluation (EvalNet) and the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) • Study on financial independence and gender equality in the EU, for the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) • Evaluation of Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforces, for the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) • Evaluation of SAFE Taskforces, for the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) Show less



Opcit Research

• Senior Researcher and Programme Manager

  • May 2019 - Aug 2022

  Main responsibilities: human rights and gender equality research, programme management, strategic planning and development, advocacy and influencing, team management, training and capacity-building, client and stakeholder relationship management, network and event management, writing and presenting.Selected projects:• Development of a strategic framework and provision of technical support and capacity building to implement monitoring, evaluation and learning for the UN Joint Programme to Eliminate Female Genital Mutilation, for UNFPA (2020-2022)• Development of an evidence-based training methodology, handbook and toolkit for strategic communication to support reintegration of returnees from conflict zones, for UNOCT (2020-2021)• Development of an evidence-based strategy for the rehabilitation and reintegration of women and girls formerly associated with Boko Haram and other armed groups in the Lake Chad Region, for UN Women (2020-2021)• Evaluation Coordinator for the £200m Children's Social Care Innovation Programme, for the Department for Education (2016-2020) – managing 56 evaluations by 17 teams, and working with senior civil servants, sector leaders and evaluators to apply lessons for policy and practice• Capacity needs assessment and development of a capacity building strategy and training methodology for women’s groups and CSOs in Ukraine, for UN Women (2018-2019)Selected studies and evaluations:• 2 studies on addressing intimate partner violence and abuse among young people in high risk contexts, for the Home Office (2021-2022)• Final evaluation of WE EMPOWER - G7: Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment, for UN Women (2021)• Final evaluation of UN Women’s Stepping Up Solutions to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls in Asia and the Pacific, for UN Women (2021)• Evaluation of Women Without Borders’ MotherSchools, for US State Department (2019-2021)• Pan-EU study on women in political decision-making, for the European Parliament (2019) Show less

• Senior Researcher

  • May 2016 - May 2019

  Main responsibilities: designing and implementing mixed method social research, evaluation and international and national policy analysis; analysis and report writing; event management; public- and client-facing engagement and communication.Selected studies, evaluations and projects:• Pan-EU study on gender equality in the media sector, for the European Parliament (2018)• Pan-EU study on domestic sexual abuse of girls, for the European Parliament (2018)• Evaluation of PREVENT-funded community projects, for the Home Office (2017)• Evaluation of Growing Futures (a programme aiming to improve service responses to domestic abuse), for the Department for Education (2016-2017)• Evaluation of Pause (a programme aiming to support women who have had children removed from their care), for the Department for Education (2016-2017)• Evaluation and follow-up evaluation of the MOPAC FGM Early Intervention Model, for the Department for Education (2016-2017)• Evaluation and follow-up evaluation of Barnardo’s National FGM Centre, for the Department for Education (2016-2017)• Rethinking Domestic Abuse in Doncaster Project, including delivery of a research study, advocacy training to young people and a Practice Handbook for children’s services staff, for Doncaster Children’s Services Trust (2016)• Pan-EU study on sexual and reproductive health and rights, for the European Parliament (2016) Show less



University of East Anglia

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Tutor in Sociology and Politics

  • Sep 2011 - Apr 2016

  Main responsibilities: delivering several undergraduate and postgraduate modules in sociology and politics. In 2014, I was awarded a Faculty Teaching Prize for ‘making a significant impact through teaching in the Faculty' and still on occasion deliver invited guest lectures at the university. Main responsibilities: delivering several undergraduate and postgraduate modules in sociology and politics. In 2014, I was awarded a Faculty Teaching Prize for ‘making a significant impact through teaching in the Faculty' and still on occasion deliver invited guest lectures at the university.



Sussex Cancer Network

• Brighton, United Kingdom

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2009 - Jun 2009

  Main responsibilities: co-designing and conducting a large-scale quantitative research project to inform regional healthcare policy and commissioning, and co-authoring the research report. Main responsibilities: co-designing and conducting a large-scale quantitative research project to inform regional healthcare policy and commissioning, and co-authoring the research report.



Brighton & Hove City Council

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principle Investigator

  • Jan 2008 - Dec 2008

  Main responsibilities: Leading a mixed-methods evaluation of a pilot educational outreach course for young people who had been excluded from school, authoring the research report and presenting findings at numerous events and council meetings to influence the roll out of the course across the city. Main responsibilities: Leading a mixed-methods evaluation of a pilot educational outreach course for young people who had been excluded from school, authoring the research report and presenting findings at numerous events and council meetings to influence the roll out of the course across the city.