She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Waikato and is an Honorary Research Associate at the New Zealand Centre for Security and Crime Science. Her research has been published in journals like Psychology, Crime & Law and the Journal of Family Violence, and by the Australia & New Zealand Society of Evidence Based Policing. Prior to joining Cordis Bright, Jordan worked in New Zealand as a senior practitioner at a specialist domestic abuse service, a probation officer, and a police analyst. She has also contributed at a strategic level as a Board Member in the domestic abuse sector.

At Cordis Bright, Jordan has worked on a range of projects, including research on evidence-based policing for the Youth Endowment Fund, a feasibility study of a domestic abuse intervention for Foundations, and research on Mothers and Baby Units in women’s prisons for Action for Children. Key skills include:

• conducting evidence reviews;
• designing evaluation and research tools;
• facilitating interviews, workshops and focus groups with service users, community groups, and professionals across frontline and strategic settings;
• engaging with diverse and often vulnerable groups, including children and young people, people in prison, and victim-survivors of domestic abuse;
• analysing complex quantitative and qualitative data (including the use of SPSS and NVivo);
• communicating insights through clear, impactful reports and presentations.

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