Before joining Cordis Bright, Karim worked as an academic mentor, providing one-to-one support to secondary school students in Tower Hamlets. He also has experience volunteering as a football coach for Brighton & Hove Albion in the Community and the Sporting Hackney FC Wellbeing Project.

Karim is an experienced mixed-methods researcher with a strong track record in delivering high-quality outputs for a range of projects and audiences. He has extensive experience conducting interviews, focus groups, and workshops with a wide range of stakeholders, including policymakers, commissioners, programme leads, practitioners, and people receiving services, as well as engagement with young people and parents/carers. In addition to producing reports, Karim has developed various outputs to support learning, decision-making, and dissemination, including case studies of promising practice and summary infographics.

Recent projects include: 

• London’s VRU. Process, impact and extension evaluation of My Ends (2021-2024): A process, impact, and extension evaluation of community-led violence reduction programme across eight London boroughs, involving extensive stakeholder consultation and case study development.
• Youth Endowment Fund and Education Endowment Foundation. Randomised Control Trial evaluation of Future Men's Boys Development Programme (2022-ongoing): A Randomised Control Trial evaluating the impact of a targeted, manualised social and emotional learning programme for boys in Years 7-11. It aims to improve educational engagement outcomes to reduce the likelihood of offending.
• Youth Endowment Fund. Implementation and Process evaluation and Randomised Control Trial evaluation of AudioActive's SHIFT Mentoring (2024-ongoing): An RCT and implementation/process evaluation of a music mentoring programme for young people at risk of serious violence in East and West Sussex. The evaluation is a two-armed parallel randomised control trial (RCT) evaluation and implementation and process evaluation (IPE) the programme.