Overview

I am a systems change thinker with extensive experience in the not-for-profit sector. I support organisations to evidence their impact through innovative and equitable approaches to embed organisational learning and influence policy and practice.

Services

Laura's portfolio of work spans theory based evaluations to feasibility studies. She holds extensive experience in managing impact and learning functions as well as end to end projects. This includes designing research and evaluation briefs, developing frameworks and data collection tools, fieldwork, with expertise in designing and delivering grounded and participatory approaches. She holds specialism in designing knowledge dissemination projects, ensuring these are accessible and impactful.
Areas of expertise include:

• Qualitative research and evaluation
• Decolonial and participatory methods
• Systems and Programme Evaluation (with specific focus grounded evaluation approaches)
• Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL)
• Community engagement and co-production

Laura holds a PhD and has extensive experience of working with children and young people, marginalised communities and strategic stakeholders.

About

Laura started out in impact and research in 2009 when she began working for an outreach project in London. Since then, she has gone on to work in the not-for-profit, international development, and local government sectors, working with a range of organisations and communities.
Laura’s professional and lived experience has shaped her approach - exploring why and how change takes place, and connecting the dots along the way. She applies a decolonial lens to her practice by interrogating evaluation and research methods, whilst acknowledging the systems and structures which shape our contexts. She frames her practice through a social justice lens, which has allowed her to be a learning partner through her work.
Laura’s has led on a range of projects – be it supporting a grassroots organisation just starting their journey to understand and better evidence their impact, to conducting large scale evaluations on behaviour change in an international context. She is deeply interested in understanding the role that contexts and ecosystems play in how we understand the world, and in turn, how we use these insights to make changes at a grassroots level.