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Dr Andreas Culora

Principal Consultant

  • andreasculora@cordisbright.co.uk

Andreas is experienced at designing and delivering complex quantitative research in both academic and policy evaluation contexts. He joins us from Ecorys where he was Associate Director.

   

Andreas specialises in the design and delivery of RCTs and counterfactual impact evaluations more widely. For instance, he recently designed and led a national cluster RCT to assess the impacts of the Early Years Experts and Mentors programme for the DfE. Other experience includes:

  • Leading on the delivery of a cluster RCT to evaluate the impact of a programme aiming to improve the reading outcomes of Year 5 pupils for the Education Endowment Foundation.
  • Evaluating the impact of programmes and initiatives targeting improved public health outcomes of targeted serious violence reduction interventions for the Home Office.
  • Evaluation of systems change initiatives that aim to improve child social care outcomes for the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care using counterfactual designs.

His technical expertise covers feasibility assessments, logic model development and refinement, developing trial protocols and statistical analysis plans, advising on quantitative data collection activities and delivering complex statistical analysis techniques using software such as RStudio and Stata. Andreas has also led internal and client-facing training on counterfactual impact evaluation methods (including RCTs).

Prior to joining Ecorys, Andreas held roles at RAND Europe and Loughborough University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys (CPRMB), advising on research and evaluation activity around improving outcomes for these groups.

He has a PhD on the Geographies of Housing in Multiple Occupation and a BSc in Geography.