Research, Training and Consultancy for Care Experience, Financial Need and Trauma-Informed Change
Supporting organisations to understand and respond to the barriers affecting care-experienced and estranged people through research, evaluation, training, participation and lived experience leadership.
Ways We Can Work Together
Training, Keynotes and Learning
Research-informed learning that connects evidence, practice and lived experience.
Examples include:
– Financial Need and the Care-Experienced People Minimum Income Standard (CEP MIS)
– Care Experience and Estrangement as an EDI Issue
– Supporting Care-Experienced and Estranged Learners
-Trauma-Informed Research and Evaluation
– Lived Experience Leadership (LEX) Participation and Co-Production
– Supporting Successful Transitions to Adulthood
Available as keynotes, webinars, workshops and bespoke learning programmes.
Research and Project Evaluation
Generating evidence that drives meaningful change.
I work with organisations, partnerships, funders and universities to design and deliver research and evaluations that are rigorous, trauma-informed and grounded in lived experience.
Examples include:
– Lived experience engagement
– Independent evaluations
– Participatory research
– Mixed-methods studies
– Impact and outcomes evaluation
– Funding and research bid support
Facilitation, Participation and Strategic Support
Helping organisations bring people, evidence and experience together.
Support includes:
– Policy and practice reviews
– Strategic workshops
– Stakeholder engagement
– Lived experience advisory groups
– Co-production processes
– Partnership development
My aim is to bring together evidence, lived experience, and professional expertise to support meaningful and sustainable change.
Areas of Expertise
Care Experience, Financial Need and Transitions to Adulthood
Specialist expertise in understanding how financial need, poverty, and access to resources shape the transition to adulthood for care-experienced and estranged people. Drawing on original doctoral research and the development of the Care-Experienced People Minimum Income Standard (CEP MIS), this work explores what is needed to create stability, safety, participation, and wellbeing during adulthood.
Care Experience, Estrangement and Belonging
Supporting organisations to better understand the experiences of care-experienced and estranged people and the barriers they may face within education, employment, services, and communities. This work focuses on creating environments where people experience belonging, safety, participation, and the opportunity to thrive.
Care Experience and Estrangement in Education
Supporting schools, colleges, universities, and training providers to strengthen belonging, participation, and success for care-experienced and estranged learners. This includes understanding the role that relationships, stability, financial pressures, and institutional culture play in educational outcomes.
Trauma-Informed Research, Policy and Practice
Applying trauma-informed principles across research, evaluation, learning, and organisational development. This work recognises the interaction between trauma, poverty, inequality, and access to resources, supporting organisations to create conditions that promote safety, stability, and meaningful participation.
Lived Experience Leadership (LEX)
Moving beyond consultation towards meaningful participation and shared decision-making. This work supports organisations to value lived experience as expertise and create opportunities for people to influence strategy, policy, research, and service development.
Research, Evaluation and Participation
Designing and delivering trauma-informed, participatory, and mixed-methods research and evaluation that informs policy, practice, and systems change. Particular expertise includes co-production, lived experience engagement, and generating evidence that supports more effective and equitable services.
Your Next Step Starts Here
Whether you’re exploring a training need, planning a research project, commissioning an evaluation, seeking a keynote speaker, or looking for strategic support, I’m happy to discuss your ideas and explore how I may be able to help.
Reach out, share your needs, and let’s tailor the perfect starting point together.