Emma is a Senior Consultant at Cordis Bright, specialising in rigorous impact evaluations. She has particular expertise in randomised controlled trials (RCTs), quantitative methods and developing evaluation approaches for complex interventions across youth justice and violence prevention, domestic abuse, children’s social care, education and employment.
“I particularly enjoy working with organisations to answer challenging questions about programmes addressing complex social issues. I love the problem-solving this involves, and bringing together delivery expertise and the perspectives of people using services to co-design evaluations that are both practical in real world settings, and produce genuinely useful and rigorous answers.”
Emma has led and contributed to more than ten RCTs and feasibility studies across schools, community-based services, local authorities and refuges. She enjoys supporting interventions across their evidence journey, from capacity building and feasibility studies through to pilot and large-scale efficacy RCTs. Her expertise spans trial design, statistical analysis, power calculations and outcome measurement, alongside implementation and process evaluation and qualitative research. She is particularly interested in combining methodological rigour with participatory approaches, drawing on the expertise of practitioners and people with lived experience to strengthen evaluation design and findings.
Emma’s recent work focuses on interventions supporting children and young people at risk of violence, offending or disengagement from education or employment. She is co-PI on multiple RCTs for the Youth Endowment Fund, Education Endowment Foundation and Youth Futures Foundation, spanning mentoring, social and emotional learning, violence prevention and educational interventions.
Emma also has substantial expertise in domestic abuse and children’s social care. This includes a pilot RCT of the Safe & Together model, an efficacy RCT of a gender based violence prevention programme, and RCT feasibility studies of a perpetrator intervention and a support programme for mothers and children. She also managed a national review for the Ministry of Justice examining safeguarding from domestic abuse and other harm in child contact centres.
Emma’s wider work spans health and social care, homelessness and multiple disadvantage. She has broader experience delivering mixed-methods research, including national surveys and systems mapping, for central government departments, arm’s-length organisations, and VRUs and PCCs.
Before joining Cordis Bright, Emma worked for a housing association, and brings extensive voluntary experience supporting adults experiencing homelessness.
Emma holds an MA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Cambridge and an MSc with Distinction in Gender, Development and Globalisation from the London School of Economics.
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