Bill’s skills include:

• Conducting qualitative consultation including interviews, focus groups, and meeting observations, with a wide range of people including strategic stakeholders, operational staff, children and young people, and people facing multiple disadvantage.
• Working closely with peer researchers to design and deliver co-produced research and evaluation.
• Undertaking quantitative research analysis, including analysis of large sets of survey data and monitoring data.
• Conducting comprehensive evidence and literature reviews.
• Writing high-quality, accessible research reports, and producing other outputs, including briefings and concise summaries.

Bill’s recent and current projects include:

• National evaluation of the MEAM Approach, which aims to change the way people with complex and multiple needs are supported to engage and access services.
• Evaluation of the Barnardo’s See, Hear, Respond programme, which brings together a consortium of national and community-based charities to provide assistance to children and young people adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and related lockdown measures.
• Rapid evidence gathering project on the flexible responses from homelessness, substance misuse, mental health and criminal justice services during the coronavirus crisis.
• Evaluation of a programme that seeks to provide support, capacity and funding for locally-designed interventions in neighbourhoods affected by high and sustained levels of violence across London.
• Rapid evidence review on the relationship between sexual orientation, gender identity and health outcomes.