I have conducted a wide-scale market review of three care markets in the UK: adult social care, children social care, and childcare. The work, delivered to a large social justice charity in the UK, identified key cross-sector risks and opportunities, and further informed new service development.

As a research consultant for Eastside People, I have delivered over 5 merger projects, supporting large national charities to identify their strategic direction. As part of merger projects, I develop methodology to assess potential partner suitability based on a range of criteria and subsequently identify potential acquisition/merger targets.

Provided research support to HACT and Hyperoptic project on the issue of digital poverty in social housing. More details about the project can be found here.

Full-cycle research project for a large national charity on existing retirement housing products. Developed a specific methodology to score housing products to ensure suitability for clients and the organisation.

Alongside HACT Head of Social Value, developed mixed-method social value evaluation framework to assess the social value created by Affordable Housing Supply Programme delivered by the Schottish Government. Currently, working with a group of social landlords and social housing providers to monitor the impact of Government’s programme. More details about the project can be found here.

Conducted an evaluation of five community support programmes run by A2Dominion housing association (research design, qualitative and quantitative data analysis and report write-up). More details about the project and the report can be found here.

Carried out evaluation of Earn it Don’t Burn it (a financial capabilities and support service) and Breathing Space (mental health support service), run by housing association Orbit. Earn it Don’t Burn it was an innovative project measuring changes in financial behaviours, such as ability to budget and confidence to manage money among others. The report can be found here.

Breathing Space evaluation was carried out using a mixed-methods approach, incorporating quantitative and qualitative research, desk review of Orbit documents and wider literature, and a Social Value assessment. The report can be found here.

Evaluation of a three year long innovative multi-level education intervention, delivered by L&Q and Construction Youth Trust. Evaluation included analysis of pre- and post- intervention surveys, interviews with key stakeholders, participants observation and document analysis.

Research on experiences of young women in the Criminal Justice system and transition out of it. Please see here for more details about the research.

Research for a sector-wide campaign on the support for vulnerable women and girls during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research included an in-depth analysis of vulnerable young women’s experiences in the lockdown (interviews with service providers and vulnerable women, focus groups, analysis of sector-wide service provider survey). The report can be found here.