Samyukta is an experienced mixed-methods researcher and evaluator. Her work spans youth justice, adult social care, mental health, and health inequalities. She brings a strong grounding in psychology and counselling to her research, supporting thoughtful and inclusive approaches to participant and stakeholder engagement. Prior to joining Cordis Bright, she worked as a counsellor supporting young people's mental health, bringing direct experience to her research across sensitive and complex topics.
Samyukta holds an MSc in Counselling Psychology from Montfort College, India, and an MSc in Research Methods of Psychological Science from the University of Glasgow.
Samyukta's skills include:
- Designing and delivering mixed-methods research and evaluation that generates clear, actionable learning for clients.
- Synthesising evidence through rapid evidence reviews, literature reviews and desk-based research to inform policy, strategy and service design.
- Delivering qualitative research and analysis, including interviews, focus groups, workshops, consultations, coding, thematic analysis and framework analysis.
- Designing surveys and analysing quantitative data using Excel, SPSS and R to identify patterns, trends and implications.
- Developing theories of change, evaluation frameworks and research tools that support robust evaluation and learning.
- Producing accessible reports, case studies, visual outputs and dissemination materials that communicate findings clearly to different audiences.
Samyukta's recent and current projects include:
- Youth Endowment Fund. Review of how the care system can protect children from involvement in violence. The review uses a mixed-methods design and includes a rapid evidence assessment, a policy review, a survey of local authorities and semi-structured interviews with local authority staff and with care-experienced children and young people.
- Centre for Homelessness Impact. Financial insecurity and homelessness deep dive. Research examining the relationship between financial insecurity and homelessness in England, exploring how insecure income, financial shocks, financial exclusion and problem debt contribute to homelessness risk. This research is part of a systems-wide evaluation of homelessness and rough sleeping that Cordis Bright undertook.
- Welsh Government. Evaluation of the Real Living Wage for Social Care Workers in Wales. An independent evaluation of the Welsh Government's commitment to pay social care workers the Real Living Wage. Cordis Bright was commissioned to conduct process and impact evaluations of the implementation of the policy.
- Macmillan. Multimorbidity and inequalities in people with cancer. Ongoing research commissioned by Macmillan to examine the evidence base on multimorbidity in people with cancer, and socioeconomic and ethnic disparities in cancer outcomes.
