Recent work

  • Training young people at Moorfields in research interviewing skills and ethics ( 2025)
  • Needs assessment of social welfare legal advice in Richmond and Wandsworth (2025)
  • A mixed methods evaluation of Hope for the Young’s services to support young asylum seeker and refugees – 2024. More, summary report, full report
  • Evaluation of the co-location of welfare right advice services in health settings in the London Borough of Hackney. More. Full report
  • An evaluation of a community mental health initiative funded by Haringey Public Health. This supported small VCS agencies working with diverse and often marginalised, communities. Summary report
  • Evaluation on VCS collaboration with Health and care especially around reconfiguration.
  • Evaluation of City & Hackney Public Health collaboration with local VCS to target COVID-19 support at diverse communities. Summary report
  • A rapid literature review for the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) to explore where and how young people look for information and advice around money matters.
  • Literature review on using volunteers to support vulnerable families, for NSPCC
  • Literature review on early help, for Action for Children

In addition, I regularly plan and deliver open and in-house training courses for the Social Research Association (SRA) and other organisations. I also train adults and children as peer researchers, most recently for Alzheimers Society, and Great Ormond St & Moorfields hospitals. More details here

Training children and young people as peer researchers – resource pack.

This toolkit is designed to help both researchers and non-researchers plan peer research and recruit, train and support children and young people.

But the materials can easily be adapted to suit adults too.

It provides step by step guidance, templates and teaching slide

SRA Ethical Guidance 2021

I am joint author of the Social Research Association’s ethical guidance, 2021.

Read more here

Read full guide here

I am also a member of the SRA Ethics Forum, and the SRA Ethics Appraisal service which advise organisations and members on ethical dilemmas.

Guide to conducting research & evaluation projects with children and young people. 2019.

A practical guide on the methodological and ethical issues when working with children and young people, including creative methods and involvement. More here . Available from Policy Press