Her work includes supporting organisations to deliver and evaluate services, often involving vulnerable children, young people and adults affected by exploitation, domestic abuse or systemic disadvantage. Her methodological experience includes impact and process evaluations, randomised controlled trials and evaluating systems change. Olivia particularly enjoys using creative and participatory methods to co-design research with the people it affects and producing accessible, engaging outputs for different audiences.

She has been involved in a number of projects for What Works Centres. This includes randomised controlled trials testing approaches to reducing youth violence and improving education, employment and training outcomes for young people alongside an exploratory study on parenting and family therapy provision to inform practice guidance for senior leaders in children's services. She has also been involved in multi-year evaluation support for a Violence Reduction Unit helping improve service delivery and monitoring.

Prior to joining Cordis Bright, Olivia worked as an Independent Domestic Violence Advisor, giving her frontline experience of the criminal justice system and multi-agency safeguarding arrangements. She also has experience as a research assistant contributing to a systematic review and meta-analysis on the relation between home maths activities and early mathematical skills and large-scale RCTs on pre-schoolers school readiness and language ability.

Olivia holds a First Class BSc in Psychology from the University of Sheffield and an MSc in Inequalities and Social Science from the University of Leeds.