Our people
Our team
The UK Evaluation Society is supported by a small, dynamic team, working together to serve the UK’s evaluation community. The team is dedicated to promoting good practice, strengthening connections, and providing high-quality services for members and the wider sector.
Nick Posford
Roo Cleland
Roo leads on marketing and communications, shaping strategy to grow the Society’s reach and strengthen public understanding of why evaluation matters. She has worked at a senior level managing teams, membership, fundraising, and developing successful corporate partnerships.
With a professional background spanning science-led conservation, infrastructure charities, and organisations supporting children and families, Roo has wide-ranging experience in purposeful communications. Her particular strengths include strategic planning, copywriting, audience engagement, and turning complex ideas into accessible messages. She has a keen interest in behavioural economics and how it can help shape positive action.
Based on the south coast of England, Roo enjoys cooking (with varying degrees of success!) and spending time by the sea.
Maria Jesus Santelices
Alex Rose
Our trustees
The Society is guided by a dedicated Board of Trustees who volunteer their time to provide strategic direction and oversight. Drawing on a wide range of skills and cross-sector experience, they help ensure the Society continues to serve and strengthen the UK’s evaluation community.
Kirstine Szifris PhD
Dr Kirstine Szifris has over 15 years’ experience working in research and evaluation. Starting out as a teacher of mathematics and then moving to complete a PhD in Criminology with a focus on prison education, Kirstine has a depth of knowledge of working in practice.
Since then, Kirstine's work has focused on evaluating programmes in and around the criminal justice system, most recently working in the victim space to improve victims’ experience of the criminal justice system. Kirstine has published a range of peer-reviewed journal articles and a book on her work teaching philosophy in prisons. She lives in Sheffield with her partner and two children and spends her free time hiking in the Peak District and supporting the local music scene.
Fiona Larner PhD
Dr Fiona Larner is the Head of Monitoring and Evaluation at The British Academy, the UK's National Academy for humanities and social science.
Originally an interdisciplinary academic in analytical biomedicine at Imperial College and the University of Oxford, Fiona transitioned to public policy evaluation in 2019.
Fiona’s evaluation focus is currently the publicly funded research and development sector, with expertise in research infrastructure, talent, STEM and SHAPE evidence base development. Her passion is ensuring evaluations actively support public sector decision making. Alongside her role as Vice Chair, Fiona is currently the UK Evaluation Society Conference Chair.
Charlotte Turner
Charlotte Turner is the Founder and Director of Bean Research, an independent consultancy specialising in evaluation, learning and social value. With over 30 years' experience designing and delivering evaluations with charities, funders, government bodies and business, she works as a learning and evaluation partner helping organisations use evidence to inform better practice, and generate deeper social impact as a result.
Bean’s work spans mixed-method, theory-based & developmental evaluation, contribution analysis and Social Return on Investment. Charlotte is an Advanced Practitioner of Social Value International, sits on the UK Evaluation Taskforce’s ETAP (Evaluation Trial Advice Panel) advising government departments on evaluation, and on the Integrity Advisory Board of the Institute of Social Value. She also teaches social impact and value at Cranfield School of Management as part of its MSc Sustainability programme.
Jose Argudo
José is an experienced economist, evaluator, and social researcher who is passionate about using robust evidence to drive better decision-making and accelerate the energy transition. With a proven track record of shaping and evaluating public policy across government departments, arm’s-length bodies, and the third sector, he specialises in strategy development, policy design, and agile delivery grounded in rigorous analysis and research.
His work spans energy, environment, sustainability, and innovation—always with a focus on creating transparent, credible solutions to local, national, and global challenges.
In 2025, José became a Trustee of the UK Evaluation Society, contributing his analytical expertise and strategic insight to strengthen the Society’s leadership, governance, and long-term vision for the evaluation profession.
George Bramley
George has 30 years of experience working in evaluation across a range of sectors including education, government and contract research. George started his career as on-site evaluator assessing new approaches for mainstreaming support for students with Dyslexia before developing wider expertise in evaluating school improvement interventions at University of Wolverhampton. In government, George developed the use of QED in evaluating business support and innovation programmes, use of theory of change in programme design and became Head of Evaluation at the DTI Small Business Services and was involved in the development of OECD guidance on evaluating enterprise and SME policies. George then worked for National Foundation for Educational Research before another career pivot to work in the areas of health service innovation and health technology assessment at the University of Birmingham, George now leads the evaluation lab at City-REDI based at University of Birmingham which covers the whole policy cycle from ex-anti (business cases) through developmental, impact and VfM studies. His team are evaluation partners on several regional place-based collaborations including WMHTIA and Forging Ahead. George attended the first UK Evaluation Conference and became a board member in 2010.
Andi Fugard PhD
Andi is a social policy evaluator and Director at IFF Research. With over 15 years’ experience, they have led evaluations commissioned by government departments and What Works Centres, spanning policy areas including crime and justice, mental health, and education. Their work focuses on randomised controlled trials and quasi experiments, most often within mixed methods evaluations.
Andi has led evaluation teams at Verian, the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), and the Anna Freud Centre. They have also held academic posts in social research methods and statistics at University College London and Birkbeck. Andi originally trained in computer science at Queen’s University Belfast, followed by an MSc in neuroinformatics (neuroscience and computational modelling) and a PhD in cognitive science at the University of Edinburgh.
Andi joined the UKES Board of Trustees in 2026 and has served on the government’s Evaluation and Trial Advice Panel since 2023.
Sarah Gonzalez
Sarah Gonzalez is Deputy Treasurer of the UK Evaluation Society. She considers herself an “early-career evaluator”, having changed careers after 20 years of work in accountancy and professional coaching. She is currently the Monitoring and Evaluation Lead for two non-profits with experience in strategy, data systems and collection tools, and impact reporting with a focus in education and employment of refugee and marginalised communities in the Middle East and Africa. She completed a Master of Evaluation from the University of Melbourne in 2024, is an active member of the UK Evaluation Society’s Early Careers Network and lives in London with her husband and three boys.
Faye Gracey
Faye brings over two decades of evaluation expertise, gained through roles in private research consultancy, public sector inspectorates, charitable organisations, and central government. Her work has directly influenced policy, service delivery, and legislation across a wide range of areas including early years, education, criminal justice, social care, and the environment.
She currently leads the Administrative Data Research (ADR) Wales team within Welsh Government, overseeing 30 analysts funded by UK Research and Innovation. A passionate advocate for the use of linked administrative data—such as GP records, school attainment, and tax data—Faye promotes its routine inclusion in evaluability assessments and its integration alongside other methods to strengthen evidence-based decision-making.
As part of the Welsh Government Social Research Leadership Team, Faye also shapes evaluation strategy across the organisation. Her commitment to improving public services through rigorous, innovative evaluation is reflected in both her strategic leadership and hands-on analytical work. Before becoming a trustee of the UK Evaluation Society in 2024, she served as a trustee of the Social Research Association.
Christoph Körbitz
Christoph is a mixed-methods social researcher and evaluation specialist, with over 20 years of experience undertaking applied social policy research and evaluation for government departments, regulators, local authorities, and a wide range of public and third-sector organisations. His current role as a research group director at RAND Europe sees him leading the Education, Employment and Skills (EES) team and overseeing the entire portfolio of research, evaluation and analytical projects in these policy domains.
In an earlier role Christoph led the research and evaluation team at TASO – the What Works Centre that focuses on reducing inequalities amongst young people entering higher education and progressing into employment. His role as the centre’s chief research officer entailed conceiving and then commissioning experimental and quasi-experimental studies (RCTs and QEDs), qualitative theory-based evaluations, as well as a range of other data analytics and evidence synthesis projects. Before that he worked as a senior research director and joint interim head of evaluation at Kantar Public UK, where led the design and delivery of a range of major evaluation contracts for central government clients in areas such as education, employment, welfare, crime, and housing.
Christoph holds an M.A. in sociology from the University of Vienna. He also worked as an associate lecturer at Northampton University, where he taught qualitative and quantitative research methods. In his current role as an elected board member (trustee) of the UK Evaluation Society (UKES), he champions the role of the evaluation profession in helping create useful evidence that supports better policymaking.
Sarah Parks PhD
Sarah is a senior evaluator with over a decade of experience across consultancy and government. She is currently Deputy Director of Planning, Performance and Evaluation at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the national research funder in the UK. Her work focuses on embedding evaluation in decision-making so that evidence genuinely shapes how organisations learn and improve. Prior to UKRI she was a consultant evaluator at RAND Europe, supporting a host of national and international funders to evaluate programmes and policies. She holds a PhD in Mathematical Models from the University of Cambridge.
Cormac Quinn
Cormac has spent over 20 years working in international development, including 13 years living and working in Rwanda, Mozambique, Zambia and the Palestinian Territories.
He’s currently the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) lead at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) for its growth agenda. This includes a focus both on economic development in partner countries and support for the UK’s international growth ambitions.
He previously worked as MEL lead for the FCDO Private Sector Department, shaping its work on global financial investment and has held a variety of roles in the former Department for International Development (DFID).
Outside of the UK government, Cormac also spent time working as a consultant for Ecorys, supporting international organisations on MEL, and spent three years at the European Commission in Brussels, reviewing EU country and regional development programmes.
Cormac has a wide range of experience in evaluation techniques (from theory-based approaches to impact evaluations); results monitoring (including development of key performance indicators); statistical approaches (including support for national censuses and surveys); and government administrative data systems. In addition, he has extensive understanding of managing international aid programmes.
Outside of work, Cormac is a father of two active teenagers and can often be seen cheering on his beloved football team Millwall on most Saturdays.
Cristina Rosemberg
Cristina Rosemberg is a Managing Partner at Technopolis UK. An economist by training, she has close to 20 years of evaluation experience spanning multiple countries, policy areas, and methodological and epistemological approaches. This has included working on evaluation of rural development policies in her native Peru (for the Group for the Analysis of Development, GRADE); international development (for the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, AIGHD); creative industries and heritage (for BOP Consulting); and research and innovation policy (for Technopolis) in the UK.
She has ample experience in designing and implementing studies that require a mixed-methods approach, including Theory Based Evaluation Methods (Contribution Analysis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Outcome Harvesting), Quasi-experimental design, data science techniques and Value for Money.
Cristina has delivered work for organisations in the UK, Ireland, Norway, Colombia, Peru, Chile, The Caribbean, and for international organisations, including the European Commission and Inter-American Development Bank.
Most of her current work in the UK, with Technopolis, focuses on providing evidence to support strategic decisions and investments in priority policy areas including emerging technologies, R&I international collaboration, and multidisciplinary research. She is the main author of the report “What methods work for evaluating the impact of public investments in RD&I”, for DSIT.
She has trained 300+ policy analysts and experts on Monitoring and Evaluation, for Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS as was), in partnership with University College London.
Cristina is also a member of Cabinet’s Evaluation Trial and Advice Panel (2023-2026) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
